How long did your pencil trick last?

[Paul]

How long did your (or the average) pencil trick last on a AMD duron/t-bird

[Aman99]

Well it has never stopped working on my system.

Aaron

[tim]

Aman99; How long ago did you do the pencil job? I did the trick a month ago and Keep wondering how long will it last too?

[Aman99]

I did it in probably october, and sold the CPU about 2 weeks ago, it worked fine. There is no reason why the pencil trick should suddenly stop working unless you mess with your L1 bridges by touching them.

Aaron

[FRANK]

I've got one with the pencil that's been up for about six months, one with the defogger kit, one unlocked T-BIRD, all still up, haven't had to redo any of them.

[Thelemac]

Mine lasted about a week.

[proze]

mine's still going. been months, now. and a good few changes in cooling, so it's not like it's been undisturbed.

[typer]

Hi, I'm new to this board and was just wondering what this pencil trick is that everyone is talking about? Thanks

[SickBoy]

Mine's held up since mid-February.... that makes it 2 months of joyous overclocking so far, without so much as a single hiccup in the multiplier department.

SickBoy

[TT120]

typer (Apr 30, 2001 12:34 a.m.):
Hi, I'm new to this board and was just wondering what this pencil trick is that everyone is talking about? Thanks
Uh oh.....

The pencil trick is where you use a pencil to reconnect the L1 bridges on an AMD T-bird processor so that you can use all the different multipliers in your bios to overclock it. Most T-birds came from the factory with certain L1 bridges cut so that you couldnt use anything but the 'stock' multiplier.