Sitting at 10859 3Dmarks without even DDR ram with my 9700 pro a little overclocked (stock cooling 346/330), a little FSB overclocking on processor/ram (139MHz stable)
But damn I just wish I could get this Athlon unlocked, the temps are pretty low still and I would get watercooling if need be to get the speeds up more. I tried the THG way with a silver laquer PEN but it didn't work and it was so tedious and difficult I'm afraid to try again for fear of damaging the CPU. I thought I had it all correct the first time, took 2 and a half hours doing it, but still won't unlock the multiplyer. Anybody ever unlocked their AthlonXP 1700+ in this fashion?
First you tape over the L1 bridges and fill in the small laserlock holes (too small to see really but they are there) with glue, then when it dries you flatten the top of the glue out the best you can with a razorblade, then you maticulously tape a mask which creates a small open 'bridge' between each bridge, and one at a time you apply the laquer to the mask, let it dry, remove all the tape, and go to the next bridge for rinse and repeat. At the end you have to make sure all the bridges are making a good connection individually but are not touching eachother. I think this is where I may have messed up. None of them are touching but some are *VERY* close. The problem is the laquer would leak under the tape a little regardless of what I tried. If I made the tape too close together the bridge would be thin and have breaks in it, but too large and the bridge would be fat and too wide and I would have to make the next one thinner to compensate. They made it look so easy in the video.
Was it the silver laquer PEN I used? The guide used a small bottle/brush solution but I could not find this anywhere local, but the guy at the electronics store assured me this was the same stuff that comes out of the bottled versions, and sure enough the resistance listed on the pen claims to be the same as what the bottled versions offer. It just seemed a little 'thin' to me, perhaps thats why it leaked under the tape, and perhaps that is why the guide suggested the bottled version. Anybody done this trick with AthlonXP1700+ CPU?
But damn I just wish I could get this Athlon unlocked, the temps are pretty low still and I would get watercooling if need be to get the speeds up more. I tried the THG way with a silver laquer PEN but it didn't work and it was so tedious and difficult I'm afraid to try again for fear of damaging the CPU. I thought I had it all correct the first time, took 2 and a half hours doing it, but still won't unlock the multiplyer. Anybody ever unlocked their AthlonXP 1700+ in this fashion?
First you tape over the L1 bridges and fill in the small laserlock holes (too small to see really but they are there) with glue, then when it dries you flatten the top of the glue out the best you can with a razorblade, then you maticulously tape a mask which creates a small open 'bridge' between each bridge, and one at a time you apply the laquer to the mask, let it dry, remove all the tape, and go to the next bridge for rinse and repeat. At the end you have to make sure all the bridges are making a good connection individually but are not touching eachother. I think this is where I may have messed up. None of them are touching but some are *VERY* close. The problem is the laquer would leak under the tape a little regardless of what I tried. If I made the tape too close together the bridge would be thin and have breaks in it, but too large and the bridge would be fat and too wide and I would have to make the next one thinner to compensate. They made it look so easy in the video.
Was it the silver laquer PEN I used? The guide used a small bottle/brush solution but I could not find this anywhere local, but the guy at the electronics store assured me this was the same stuff that comes out of the bottled versions, and sure enough the resistance listed on the pen claims to be the same as what the bottled versions offer. It just seemed a little 'thin' to me, perhaps thats why it leaked under the tape, and perhaps that is why the guide suggested the bottled version. Anybody done this trick with AthlonXP1700+ CPU?
