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[jay]

does any 1 have a clue wat the highest Amd athlon Xp processor is that would go on a GA-7VT600 1394 Socket A m/b this is a pic as well thnkz.

 

[Shumway]

The best bet would be to go to the board's website and have a look around.

 

[Nubius]

well considering it says DDR400 and FSB400 I'd say up to the 3200+ XP-M since it's only that and the 3000+ I believe that are infact 400FSB...not 100% sure if the 2800+ is 333 or 400FSB.

 

[Leonidas]

2800+ on barton is 333

 

[Nubius]

yeah I just looked it up actually. The 3000+ Barton core is the first one that's 400FSB then of course the 3200+ XP is. But there's also the 3000+ XP that's not a barton core and it's only 333FSB.

 

[Leonidas]

wouldnt it make more sense to get one with lower FSB to allow more overclocking without hitting a memory bottleneck?

 

[jay]

so should i go 333Mhz or 400Mhz with DDR 400 RAM also and is there a athlon Xp 2600 400Mhz

 

[Leonidas]

try not to double post, if you can avoid it... like running this and the athlon xp thread in parallel. it will make you unpopular very quickly around here.

 

[Nubius]

wouldnt it make more sense to get one with lower FSB to allow more overclocking without hitting a memory bottleneck?

Wha? Yeah only if he wants to get like the 2500+ or 2600+ XP barton core and OC but I don't think he's out to do that. The lower FSB doesn't allow for higher overclocks though they just happen to be at low settings because it's more along the lines of a value chip, this more applying to the XP-M's.

so should i go 333Mhz or 400Mhz with DDR 400 RAM also and is there a athlon Xp 2600 400Mhz

You want 400MHz to go with DDR400 RAM, you want the numbers to match for optimum performance. If there's a 2600+ XP 400FSB CPU then I say go for it.

 

[Alex81388]

Ive been able to get this:Click here
To get to this on stock hsf and, budget RAM for $20 at CompUSA up to this:

This Cpu's Speed and 400mhz.

I'll probably hop for another heatsink and better Ram, and if you do the same, you could probably get up to the 3200+ 400mhz, could maybe go higher...?