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sedatk
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Unlocking the Duron and Athlon using the pencil (2...
I had tried that with Duron 600 but couldn’t overclock it. I don’t remember what went wrong. Maybe the motherboard didn’t support it.
AnotherGoodName
8 months ago
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The best way to overclock the lower clocked durons was simply to change the fsb in the bios settings. You didn’t really need the pencil trick as they had 100mhz fsbs in an era where 133 was more common.
sedatk
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I remember doing that on my Athlon XP. Had too much issue with cooling though. (Probably my fault)
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