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According to replies to my cross-post at SR, the ASUS Nforce2 boards have a (retro) socket thermister, so I could get an indication of my 1200's temps. Since I've heard ASUS mobo's bad-mouthed recently, and Epox (maybe) has that soft-unlocking BIOS thing, I'm looking longingly at the EP-8RDA...

Thanks for the replies so far. I intend to get 2 PC2700 DIMMs and run memory and FSB sync-ed at 166 if possible, otherwise at 133 (the FSB of my current Tbird [which the KT7 doesn't support, of course]), until I can get either a 166 FSB Tbred or an unlocked 133 one (either hard-unlocked, or...

I'd like to do a stepped upgrade to an Nforce2 mobo but keep my Athlon 1200 non-XP processor for now. Epox support says it "should work fine". Any experiences or hear-say? Will CPU thermal monitoring be the problem I anticipate? I'd love to get to 166 MHz FSB. My (factory unlocked) 1200 is...

Back on-topic, I haven't found any confirmation of that Inquirer item on multiplier O/C'ing "locked" Athlons in the past few days. Has anyone else seen any verification of this information, or even tried it themselves?