Tom's Hardware and Asus unlock Pentium 4

OUR FRIENDS at THGdiscovered that you can test current 550 and 560 CPU's and make them run at 1066 FSB already.

A new Asus NIOS will let you overclock two of the latest Asus motherboards, the P5AD2 (i925) and the P5GD2 (i915P).

This magic BIOS will let you overclock the multiplier, something that you could not do in the past and you can get your 3.6GHZ CPU and overclock it from its original 18x200 MHz to FSB 1066 MHz x 14 resulting in 3728MHz or should we say 3733MHz.

It all works in current CPUs and motherboards - that's the fun part - but you need some good DDR667 memory and obviously very good cooling as things will heat up.

You can take a look at more details here.

If you are lucky enough to have those motherboards powered with one of the two CPUs you can easily do it. Many people like a free performance increase.

I have a feeling that this is not the last of it as we might see some more motherboard vendors accidentally releasing new BIOSes that might do these kinds of things. µ