Intel's anti-upgrade tricks defeated with Kapton tape
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Re: Intel's anti-upgrade tricks defeated with Kapton tape
#2Reminds me of the "pencil trick" to overclock CPUs in the late 90s/early 00s. You'd rub a pencil over contacts on the CPU to bridge them, which would unlock the clock multiplier.
Re: Intel's anti-upgrade tricks defeated with Kapton tape
#3This is dated 2024, but is talking about Intel 8th gen chips released in 2017.
Re: Intel's anti-upgrade tricks defeated with Kapton tape
#4Sounds like good* strategy by Intel. Cheap for them & the MB manufacturers to make a few little changes, all the potential issues with Old MB/New CPU systems are now "sorry, not supported", and the Rebel 0.01% can imagine that they've cleverly won a real victory - which "victory" will barely be a rounding error on any of the Big Players' financials.
*"Good" by Capitalist Overlord standards
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#5https://www.overclock.net/threads/mod-lga775-support-for-lga... I did this mod back in the day, can't believe it's been 11 years.
Re: Intel's anti-upgrade tricks defeated with Kapton tape
#6Reminds me of the "pencil trick" to overclock CPUs in the late 90s/early 00s. You'd rub a pencil over contacts on the CPU to bridge them, which would unlock the clock multiplier.
I remember this being the way to unlock Athlon XP’s (though if you bought the mobile version, which used the same socket and ran just fine in a desktop motherboard, they came unlocked from the factory).
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#7This is dated 2024, but is talking about Intel 8th gen chips released in 2017.
And? Submissions talking about the architecture of the Game Boy don't need to be tagged 1989.
Re: Intel's anti-upgrade tricks defeated with Kapton tape
#8Sounds like good* strategy by Intel. Cheap for them & the MB manufacturers to make a few little changes, all the potential issues with Old MB/New CPU systems are now "sorry, not supported", and the Rebel 0.01% can imagine that they've cleverly won a real victory - which "victory" will barely be a rounding error on any of the Big Players' financials. *"Good" by Capitalist Overlord standards
But if i can buy a new CPU for my motherboard i would be almost guaranteed to stay with Intel. Now ever upgrade is a chance to jump ship to the competition.
There are probably people on their 3rd AM4 CPU with the same motherboard.
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#9Re: Intel's anti-upgrade tricks defeated with Kapton tape
#10This is dated 2024, but is talking about Intel 8th gen chips released in 2017.
The hackaday post is from this year, and talks about forum threads/guides from 2019. I would guess the author only learned about it or decided to write about it now.
Even if it's not that useful to people nowadays, it's interesting to learn such a thing is possible.