No. AMD was taking 3200+ chips and binning/selling them as 2500+ chips. All it took was increasing the FSB speed in the BIOS, and a bit of luck from the silicon lottery. No hardware mods.
replyReminds of me of the Celeron 300A to 450 overclock.
replyI took that old Celeron further and managed 533 stable with a screaming delta fan and a component swap on the mobo, beefier VRMs.
replySlap on a 256K stick of Winbond cache and boy did that thing scream for its time.