Originally posted by: Jeff7181
You'll probably want to burn it in first
This does nothing, there's nothing that proves this does anything other than give you peace of mind.
locked, on a cpu, means "not able to get into so you can change",
Not always... T-Bred A's have always been considered "locked" because you couldn't change the multiplier unless you had a motherboard that was capable of ignoring the CPU's bridges and setting it at whatever you wanted.
Recently, T-Bred B's and Bartons have been "locked" at 12.5 or below, and you needed a motherboard with a 5th multiplier bit to raise it beyond that, or you had to physically modify the CPU.
Most recently, XP2500's have been locked and not even modifying the bridges on the CPU can change the multiplier... I'm not sure how many other processors that has extended to, but I believe it's just the XP2500 since everyone has been buying those and overclocking to the speed of XP2800, XP3200 and even higher and all AMD was selling was XP2500's.
you'll need to download something that check's your cpu speed, to be able to tell if it's a locked chip or not.
You don't NEED to... you can just look at the CPU speed during the POST.
Clockgen works very well for me, also. Here's the link: ClockGen. It allows you to change your fsb from Windows, along with telling you how fast your cpu is running, and what the fsb is at the moment.
A better program for just looking at the speed is CPUZ or WCPUID.