Amd TBird 1200 question

[Pepsi]

Hello everyone,
I have recently purchased a new AMD processor a 1200 Thunderbird. The first thing I checked was to see if the L1 bridges were cut on the processor. They were not. I have the processor on a Biostar MB MKV7. The front buss speed is set to 133 and the multiplier set so the TBird runs at 1200. The details on the processor are as goes, AMD Athlon, A 1200 AMS3C , AXIA 0128CPFW, 96419660414, 1999 AMD. This is exactly what is on the top of the chip. My question is looking at the chip (Olympus microscope) I see that L3, L4, L6, L7 all have cuts in them. Other pics of AMD’s up close look the same but the cuts are in different places. Besides blowing things up is there any benefit to closing any of the other bridges besides L1 ? What purpose do the other bridges serve? And lastly why on to very similar processors are the cuts different? Thanks.
pepsi

[RED Hot Machine]

Welcome to the forums

looks like you have an unlocked AXIA 1.2, which tend to be good overclockers. i'm not sure on the rest of the bridges but if you hang in there someone will answer that for you.

[foxmulder]

Hi and welcome to the forums. Closing the L7 bridges will lock the Vcore at 1.85-1.9 Volt. Changing some of the other briges would result in locking various multipiers. Really thats only usefull if you Mobo won't allow you to change the multipier. Basically just make sure the L1 bridges are closed and you should be fine.

[Sonny]

They go like this

[Sonny]

& like this

[RED Hot Machine]

Great info Sonny.:D

[Oni]

You picked yourself up a good chip there! What most people around here would call an AXIA "9" (The 9 is the first character on the 3rd line). You might be able to hit about 1500 Mhz w/ that once its properly burned-in and properly cooled.

[Pepsi]

Whew !!
Thanks for the info guys!! The chip it's kind of weird how I got it.
I saw a store add in the paper said "1.2 gig Athlon Thunderbird and Motherboard 159.00$ with fan 196.00$". I went and looked at the stuff (I thought the MB was a little cheesy looking, but what do I know?). I was running a ASUS P2B-f rev.1 400 celery OC to 450.
It was having a lot of problems and it was so S L O W .... (probably the cheesy 200 watt PS) Anyway I desperately wanted speed so I sprang for the upgrade. It also included a new Power Supply 400 watt, 768 meg pc133 ram & Modem, HD, Cooling fans.. ect, ect.... this project has just exploded....Now I am wondering hummmmmm maybe that store has a few more of these chips laying around. Either way it was really nice to get the info I need this quick, thanks everyone.
Pepsi