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When a CPU is reffered to being locked or unlocked, it is basically saying whether or not you can adjust the multipliers. Multipliers are the the number multiplied by the front side bus(FSB) to give you your Mhz rating, ie. 10x133 gives you 1330Mhz.

All Amd Athlon processors, except the XP are unlocked at speeds higher than 1.2Ghz. All Intel based processors have had a locked multiplier since the early Celeron's.


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by BrushedTooth See Profile edited by FastEddie See Profile
last modified: 2004-02-07 12:24:42