AMD Athlon XP - Unlocking Multiplier (Tom's Hardware Guide)

Nostalgia, bring tears to my eyes. Greetings to all fans of old PC technology. 💾

I remember those old Epox motherboards, they were awesome

Damn.. I think we've been doing it back in 2000 or 2001?

Luego con los de silicio podías transformar la línea sempron en athlon y hasta en MP que era el modelo portátil (activando el power now)
Tenías que tocar las línea L2 .
Activabas el total de la memoria caché .. que tiempos aquellos … lo que siguió después fue activar cores. Amd quiso hacer trabajo en serie abaratando costos en maquinaria por eso un cpu podía ser perfectamente otro y los pines era en su tiempo una aventura

EPOX Motherboard. Epic !

i see the amd that got burned to a crisp w out a cooler

this was the era of tom's hardware long before the forum posts started to look like this:

Q: "My laptop turns on but screen stays black and nothing happens, even external screen stays black"
A: "press Win+R, type msinfo32 and copy information that you see"

gamers now: omg is touching CMOS safe?
gamers then:

I had no idea what the fuck was going on here when I watched this over a decade ago.

So cringy seeing them not reapplying the thermal paste.... Times have changed.

Ah the good old day!!!

will it work with Ryzen 7900?

I am watching it in 2023 and I want to overclock my Athlon XP for no reason. 😀

This AMD is gotta be the weirdest processor I've ever seen.

im here to revive this outstanding music

I still have the original video saved somewhere

Ah yes. Smoked an XP on my first try at this. Still have it in my boneyard somewhere to this day. Long gone are the good ole days 😕

Dayum time travel is real

I love the K7
It still works in 2020

still have my barton 3000+ 2166mhz with 1 gb ddr400 RAM...mostly used with dual voodoo 2's in SLI (cpu is total overkill) for unreal, quakeIII, diabloII, and thief series...Running windows Me=)

Watching this on a Ryzen 2600 with a Athlon XP 2600+ system next to me, how times have changed!

Amd its a fuc*** oven

very easy

нифига себе, этот ролик еще на болванках ходил в 2002, что ли, году

That music!

Music track name please ?

my first diy is k63 450

what all pins are u connecting very hard to see

K6-3/K7/K8/K10 was the best microprocessors from AMD :'(. I started from Duron 1300(Morgan)>Athlon XP 1700+(Palomino)>Athlon 64 X2 6000+(Windsor)>Phenom X3 8450(Toliman)>and i will buy Phenom II 925/945(Deneb)

old times...

Assembled in Malaysia

Oh, long gone are the times of pencilmodding CPUs...

I can't believe it was made in Malaysia, Damn

The glue that fills that holes was needed in order to not short che edge of L1 bridges with the the conductive bottom of the hole. The prior cpus had not any hole, so you could connect the L1 with simple pencil, and it was much easier. However the method shown in this video was not easy to reproduce, the L1 bridges were really tiny, it was impossible to be so accurate even with a magnifier. The silver lacquer was the same used to repair the rear window wires car that defrost the ice.

The cpu used was a low-overclockable cpu because it was already a fast cpu of top level. The reason of the locked multiplier is for stability issue. At the beginning of a productive process, not all the cpus were able to rock top speed, so the less "lucky" cpus were locked down with low multiplier.

Если кому то еще интересно, то саундтрек играющий в этом ролике - это:
If anyone is still interested, then soundtrack playing in this video is:

Area 51 (Dan Nyman) – Stepfather

For those who don't know the title of the song: it's called stepfather.xm

Here's someone who couldn't unlock his Athlon. ;P

Ahh the good old days when you could upgrade your CPU by circumventing a crippled CPU by bridging jumpers :P

There are a lot of music tracks of old Tom's Hardware video's which aren't identified, personally i think this style of music corresponds to Alexander Brandon's style, somewhere between late-90's or early-2000's.

if i figured this out correctly this will be helpfull for me cause my amd on this junker is a 3.8ghz duel core but for somereason they have it locked at 2ghz .........

..... okay without him explaining from what i got hes doing it like painting using the tape to keep the "paint" glue and silver where wants it to go so the first glue was across the middle between the pins "guessing to raise the surface and then vert "masks" to connect the pins?"

@qianbaidu886 Its Stepfather.xm, I really like this song too.

what is the music？who can tell me？ Thanks！

@Markcy1989 composer called stepfather or something like that

did it worked for anyone?

@1800Supreme Its because the companies want you to spend more buying the higher model cpus. Yeah I know its sucks. I have a Q9300 and dont want to oc my memory too badly. When I start going over 400 fsb really need a higher multiplier. I am gettting 3Ghz across all 4 cores at 400 FSB. Shame the mutliplier is only 7.5 max!