AMD Thunderbird & Duron Overclocking Revealed

Update - 7/19/2000

We've received quite a few emails indicating that some of the newer retail Thunderbird and Duron CPUs are completely locked by AMD. The method AMD is using to achieve this is apparently be cutting all of the "Golden Bridges" present at L1, a picture of our CPU with these bridges intact can be seen below:

If you happen to receive a CPU that has all of these bridges cut, using a conductive pen or conductive epoxy you can simply rejoin the bridges and your CPU should be able to be unlocked again. There is still no word if AMD will be completely disconnecting the BP_FID pins from the die yet, but for now it seems like we're still good to go.