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watsup, I'm wondering with this bios can the multiplier be changed in setup when I close the L1 bridges? Just voltages? Here is a very good article I bet you hardcores already seen it- http://www4.tomshardware.com/howto/0...000oc-08.html. It has a chart with L3 and L4 bridges for multipler settings, the article saying they don't recommend messin with because of risk of not being able to switch back from these settings. If you have personal experience or good links to this let me know, I am gettin ready to get me a Swiftech and see what I can do with a 900 t-bird( already clocked to 990 with 110 fsb usin CPUFSB ) and a XP1600 I'm gonna buy next payday. I've only been jackin with computers about a year now let me know what you think.

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link don't work try copy n paste to address bar

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www4.tomshardware.com/howto/01q4/011112/athlonxp2000oc-o8.html

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www4.tomshardware.com/howto/01q4/011112/index.html

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finally that one works!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! disreguard the others

[flounder43]

The bios will not let you adjust the multiplier or the vcore. Fsb overclocking is your only option. Nevertheless, I have been very happy with my results, having o/c'd a Duron 750 to 1 gig by raising the vcore with the pencil trick on the cpu.

[Ploaf]

I have performed the L3/L4/Lwhatever surgery on 5 AMD chips successfully, some I did more than once at different speeds, but I knew what they could OC to before doing it and it can be very risky because those bridges are incredibly small and it's easy to screw up the cpu while cutting the bridges. I would try to up the FSB on that tbird before doing anything else or install it in a board that allowed for adjustments to the multiplier. Many of those 900 MHz Tbirds OC'd very poorly, as mine did, and it would be good to be able to quickly undo any changes in case you overdid the OC. IIRC there is also an addon socket with dipswitches that can be used to manually adjust the multiplier, but not sure of the name and have no experience with it.
You can check the stepping on your CPU to see what others were able to achieve with it. The stepping is a code printed in the core and there is(or at least was) a couple of charts over at www.athlonoc.com with various steppings and how well they OC'd. Some were better than others, much better. Unless you are willing to kill the chip then I don't know if I would try it. I was, but most people aren't.