instead of locking the multiplier: new idea

i'm just going to paste a chat log of a discussion between myself and hawkeviper. most of the idea part came from him (i'm Innocent and pure hearted evil). partly censored because i don't remember what the rules are about that on the forums, and quite frankly i'm too lazy to check.

[07:40:12 PM] [Lost Withou: I've e-mailed AMD
[07:40:27 PM] Innocent and: ...
[07:40:32 PM] Innocent and: for what purpose
[07:40:56 PM] [Lost Withou: I asked, simply, for a yes or no as to
whether in theory it is possible by some method to
remove the superlock
[07:42:00 PM] Innocent and: i wonder what they'll say
[07:42:53 PM] [Lost Withou: hopefully 'yes'
[07:43:07 PM] Innocent and: that would be very frustrating
[07:43:14 PM] Innocent and: if that was their whole email
[07:43:16 PM] Innocent and: "yes"
[07:44:07 PM] [Lost Withou: lol
[07:44:16 PM] [Lost Withou: it would make me buy the processor tho
[07:44:21 PM] [Lost Withou: because at least then, there would be
hope
[07:44:27 PM] Innocent and: and cut the hell out of it?
[07:44:31 PM] [Lost Withou: if they said 'no', i'd buy something else
[07:45:03 PM] Innocent and: i know you can't unlock the a64
[07:45:18 PM] Innocent and: it's burned into the hard rom inside the
chip
[07:45:36 PM] [Lost Withou: =/
[07:46:21 PM] [Lost Withou: its not like AMD are trying to stop
o/cers... they have a dedicated forum section for it
[07:46:55 PM] Innocent and: of course, it's the unscrupulous vendors
they want to stop
[07:48:12 PM] [Lost Withou: so, why not just code a little program
into the chip
[07:48:17 PM] [Lost Withou: to register it with AMD
[07:49:08 PM] [Lost Withou: have that tied to a register of oem sales
[07:49:28 PM] Innocent and: or have the bios say when you boot up
[07:49:34 PM] [Lost Withou: exactly
[07:49:41 PM] [Lost Withou: like
[07:49:49 PM] Innocent and: ATHLON XP 2800 OVERCLOCKED TO 3200
[07:49:54 PM] Innocent and: for like 5 seconds
[07:49:56 PM] [Lost Withou: every 5 days, it waits for 15 minutes to
boot
[07:50:15 PM] [Lost Withou: unless you call AMD and get a special code
from them
[07:50:32 PM] Innocent and: then the vendors would just get the code
[07:50:36 PM] Innocent and: and sell it after
[07:51:11 PM] [Lost Withou: here's an idea
[07:51:28 PM] [Lost Withou: have all mb's ship with a big load screen
that is embedded
[07:51:51 PM] [Lost Withou: when it's overclocked, it flashed up with
fire and brimstone and screams out "I'M BEING
OVERCLOCKED TO XXXX"
[07:52:41 PM] Innocent and: rofl
[07:52:45 PM] Innocent and: that would f***ing rule!
[07:53:05 PM] [Lost Withou: yeah
[07:53:08 PM] [Lost Withou: or
[07:53:09 PM] [Lost Withou: even better
[07:54:27 PM] [Lost Withou: "MY RETAIL SPEED IS 2000MHZ

I'M RUNNING AT 3400MHZ

I AM BEING OVERCLOCKED

IF YOU BOUGHT ME LIKE THIS
REPORT THE STORE TO AMD AND GET A REFUND

IF YOU DID THIS TO ME, C0N6R4TZ Y0!!"
[07:54:42 PM] Innocent and: lol
[07:55:37 PM] Innocent and: that would rule
[07:55:43 PM] [Lost Withou: indeed
[07:55:47 PM] [Lost Withou: annnnnnnnd
[07:55:49 PM] Innocent and: overclockers would be happy
[07:55:54 PM] Innocent and: and amd would be happy
[07:56:04 PM] [Lost Withou: they should ship an option to submit your
official AMD clocked speed to an AMD db
[07:56:11 PM] Innocent and: l33t
[07:56:38 PM] [Lost Withou: indeed
[08:01:10 PM] Innocent and: k6 oced to a64 3500 omgwtflolzkthxbi
[08:01:21 PM] [Lost Withou: wtf
[08:02:34 PM] Innocent and: lol

any thoughts?

I don't think AMD wants to just stop unscupulous vendors. I think there is some merit in forcing enthusiasts to buy higher end CPU's.

Also, this isn't an AMD issue. The motherboards could easily detect the correct setting automatically.