just wondering if anyone has had any good or bad news on the iwill kk266-r and also have a question.

is the only true difference between using one of the new 266mhz fsb procs and the current thunderbirds is connecting the L1 bridges via the pencil trick? seems thats how people are doing reviews on the new mobos.

any answers would be appreciated.

thanks

As I've read, the mobo is very good, one of the best in 133 FSB Socket A class.

There is more to the Thunderbird "C" model than just the 266 factory unlocked clock speed. From what I understand:

It is true that you can unlock your Bird or Duron by connecting the L1 bridges on the CPU. This will change the speed of your Front Side Bus. However, there is another bus that runs from the CPU to the memory or DIMM slots. Because of this, you will need a C model T-bird (266MHz) to run PC2100 memory if you get a DDR board. If not, you can only run PC1600 memory.

I haven't yet heard of anyone using a regular T-bird in DDR motherboard with PC2100 DDR RAM and now I'm wondering if some Dresden plant Blue 'Birds might be good enough sit with PC2100.