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SYSTEMHAULT
06-03-2000, 02:35 AM
i am curious if anyone knows a way to romove the cpu clock multiplier on a p3 processor i have the p3 550.

if anyone can help plz get ahold of me either by email or icq number 27655704.

thanks
blade_146
06-03-2000, 02:43 AM
you can't remove it. sorry http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif
Inferior
06-03-2000, 08:06 PM
Yeah, it's impossible unfortunately... http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

Same as my PII..... http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/frown.gif

You can jack up the fsb though, if you wanna overclock, thats what your gonna have to do...
falcompsx
06-03-2000, 08:49 PM
well maybe if you get a schmetic from Intel and a soldering iron and some microchip manufacturing equipment you could adjust it to whatever you wanted, but if you had that equipment, you could probably just make a cpu....
JohnRobins
06-04-2000, 08:23 AM
what about these Golden ticket engineering test sample P3's that where mentioned, with no multiplier lock, surely they didn't cut them from a different die, or they wouldn't be reliable test comparisons.
John.
CMonster
06-04-2000, 09:09 AM
Sorry - this problem has had some of the best minds in the industry working on it for quite a while.

Not only have hacker hobbiests been hard at work for a number of years, but "professional" crooks would love to remark these chips - the potential profits are astronomical. And you can thank these swindlers for the locked multiplier.

It seems AMD is soon to follow in multiplier locking their CPUs - to date, a number of K7s were already found to be compromised and a number of them resold as quite brilliant forgeries. Even the plastic cases on these fakes were custom fabricated.
JohnRobins
06-04-2000, 09:32 AM
It's a shame though, I remember the days of my p233mmx you could do all sorts with that baby, It's a shame manufacturers don't just sell a chip with no locks and let the end user decide what to do with it, instead of just adjusting and remarking it, but they wouldn't be so rich then would they, it's like selling the exact same car three times, but with a different sized bit of wood underneath the throttle pedal!
John.