Question for you Pencil Trickers

[Guest]

I have an athlon 900 and i know all about the l1 bridge trick, and am not really in the market for doing it right now to overclock my processor, but got a strange thing for someone to explain. My processor came with the first, and forth L1 bridge already closed, the two middle ones were cut, my friend just bought a 900 athlon as well and all 4 of his are cut. what is the deal and what is the difference? and would i need to pencil trick the other two in the middle if i ever choose to overclock or is the two enough.

If you overclock an Intel Processor enough, it will turn into an AMD. True Story.

 

[Guest]

I've heard of that before, you need to close all of the bridges. I would recommend NOT using a plan graphite pencil, it'll ware off over time. Think of notes that you might have taken in school with pencil. When you look at them a couple months later they're all faded. Get a conductive pen. I got one for ~$10 USD.

 

[flavio321]

does it appear to be cut by a person or is it nice and neat?
if it is all scratched up, you might have gotten ripped off. it could easly be an overclocked cpu.

If you can't beat 'em kill 'em
athlon "SLOTA" thunderbird 700@1050mhz

 

[frombadtraverse]

I agree, get a silver conductive pen from a good electronics store. I use them all the time to repair bad circuit traces. They work great and are permanent.

 

[Oni]

I looked all over town to try and find one of those pens (two radio shacks and one place called skycraft) and no one had it. Do you possibly have a link to a site online?

 

[flavio321]

http://www.web-tronics.com/2200-mtp.html

they sell it for 13 bucks. kinda expensive put that is a good one. it has a very fine tip, which is good...
i'm sure you can find it cheaper. just search of circuitry equipment or conductive pen on any search engine.

If you can't beat 'em kill 'em
athlon "SLOTA" thunderbird 700@1050mhz