FloatingPoint

I just ruined my Duron 700Mhz. I have a Abit KT7 and my Duron was o/C at 950MHZ... Some how, while I was putting the heatsink on, I managed to cracked the die 8) . So I want to get a AMD Thunderbird 1.2 GHZ. What I want to ask as is should I get this cpu or other (1.4GHZ) and any recommendations for the Heatsink would be great... I am getting a shim this time... My system Abit kt7, Geforce2 MX (I'll get a GF3 ti500 as soon as I have the money), 512MB , Sound Blaster Live gamer-x and I had a Duron 700MHZ @ 950MHZ ...

Thank you Harry for helping me... The links that you provided are good sources. And one more question, which HSF are you using? Just to get an idea. I was looking to buy an ALPHA 8035, I read the reviews but I want to get others opinion also. If there are people using this heatsink, please reply. Is it woth it? any other HSF suggestions are welcome also. thanks...

Finally somebody answered my post. I might confused the lock and unlock. I didnt meant to say that the mother board doesnt like the L1 bridge trick but I meant to say that it might not work. The bios says 1200+ it doesnot have a specific option. And the post I read, (I dont remember now where I read but it was in the abit bios page or something), said it doesnt like it. I dont want to end up with a 1.4GHZ which I can not OC the CPU over 1.4. Do you have Abit KT7 Harry?

Well, I found out that KT7 does not like AMD TBird 1.2 or 1.4 L1 bridge locked. Which means no pencil trick... I guess I am gonna get a replacement CPU (Duron 900MHZ) instead of an upgrade...