Pre week 39 of 03 were unlocked, anything newer than that, are locked. Although they will appear to be unlocked, as there are no cut L1 bridges, they are somehow locked on the die like a intel, and wire tricks in the socket won't help. There is always the possibility that one may have sneaked through unlocked. There is a good possiblity that his may be unlocked, as the 2700 tbred (actually, I think those ar thorntons) was a short lived deal, as the bartons were coming out. Although with a multi of 13, the most your going to take it down is 12.5, without connecting the last L3. That is, if he's shooting for 200+