Pencil trick with new AXP1600+

Just found this piece about using the old pencil trick on the new AXP1600+:

http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/newspro/viewnews.cgi?newsid1016379112,87288,

The pictures look quite promising, but not sure how "new" is the chip stepping. I'm really interested since I own an AXP1600+ myself; although different stepping.

I would use a more stable method for oc'ing the XP chips. That pencil trick works okay at best. I heard that the penciling wears off after awhile.

No doubt the pencil traces will wear off after a while. But it beats the amount of "surgery" you have to perform to unlock a conventional XP...

I doubt that the pencil trick will work coz i remember tom's hardware mentioned something like the resistance in the pencil lead is way too high that's why it doesn't work! I think silver lacqur is still the best, anyway check out tom's hardware on unlock XP articles, Cheers!