"The Pencil Trick? Bah! Conductive Pens and sealants? Phooey! Nail polish? Hokey! Us Canadians have harsh winters, so it's only natural that we come-up with a car-related winterizer kit to close those L1-bridges on our AMD Athlons and Durons. Introducing the 'Rear Window Defogger Repair Kit' - a surefire way to close the bridges permanently. The fringe benefit? It lowers your VCore when overclocking."
We at PCA never heard of this method to unlock tbirds.
http://www.nvnews.net/ubb/Forum10/HTML/000089.html Gave my 2 cents.