Unlocking an Athlon XP 3200+

There are a lot of pages on the net describing Athlon XP unlocking. Google is your friend.

http://www.nvnews.net/articles/athlon_xp_unlocking/index.shtml
http://www.sharkyextreme.com/guides/hwGuides/article.php/10709_1009731__6

Hi wmorri, if you really want to get a solid overclock from a socket A processor, you'll need another motherboard. In my experience Via chipset boards have performed very poorly at OC'ing and which cpu you use just doesn't matter. The Nforce 2 Ultra 400 boards are the best boards to run a multiplier locked Athlon cpu. There are pencil mods and wire mods to attempt to unlock these processors, but when those fail and if you haven't already done some damage to the cpu, you are stuck with increasing the front side bus and cpu-memory voltages. If your board allows you to raise the FSB, that is where to start. Mike