The German website Chip.de has posted their modding guide for Athlon XP processors with a FSB of 133/166Mhz: they will show you, how to turn these Athlon XP processors - starting with the Athlon XP 1700+ and XP 2600+ CPU's - into FSB hungry clock monsters. They moded these into Athlon XP 2500+ and 3000+ with a 400 MHz FSB and turned the Athlon XP 3000+ Barton into a Athlon XP 3600+ with 400 MHz FSB and all that for 1 Euro! Here's a quick translation.
The fact that with the Main board modification shown also in the budget segment goes much shows the results of the "smallest" Thoroughbred model, the Athlon XP 1700+. Nominal the processor with a clock of 1,467 MHz clocks and with a Frontside bus clock by 133 MHz (11 x 133 MHz) is propelled. But even the Thorougbred of the first hour can be accelerated on a system bus clock of 200 MHz. The obtained result is more than tidy: With a clock gain of 533 MHz and a frequency of branch-pure 2 GHz the processor runs in approximately as fast as a future Athlon XP 2500+ with beard on core. That is based on a present price of approximately 65 euro everything else as bad.
The fact that with the Main board modification shown also in the budget segment goes much shows the results of the "smallest" Thoroughbred model, the Athlon XP 1700+. Nominal the processor with a clock of 1,467 MHz clocks and with a Frontside bus clock by 133 MHz (11 x 133 MHz) is propelled. But even the Thorougbred of the first hour can be accelerated on a system bus clock of 200 MHz. The obtained result is more than tidy: With a clock gain of 533 MHz and a frequency of branch-pure 2 GHz the processor runs in approximately as fast as a future Athlon XP 2500+ with beard on core. That is based on a present price of approximately 65 euro everything else as bad.