fastest CPU for a KT400 based board?

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I'm assuming its the 2800XP, as I don't think the board supports the 333
fsb chips. Or does it? I'm getting conflicting info off the web. Thanks.
 
I'm assuming its the 2800XP, as I don't think the board supports the 333
fsb chips. Or does it? I'm getting conflicting info off the web. Thanks.
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KT400 can support 333 fsb CPU,
http://www.via.com.tw/en/apollo/kt400.jsp

Whether your particular motherboard has "official" support or not
is another matter. You failed to mention that board make/model
so check the manufacturer's bios notes, consider updating the
bios with current/old CPU in it... Odds are you can run any 333
fsb chip, and "maybe" even a slightly o'c bus for a 400 fsb chip.
That is even without the updated bios but it could be useful to
do so for proper XP name-ID and other bug fixes.

Google searching your particular make/model/revision of board
may turn up reports of particular CPUs being tried.

Also there may be a lot of info found by searching with
motherboard model name as a keyword at
http://forums.pcper.com/

Also you might check the motherboard manual and bios for the FSB
settings, to see what it already allows. However, not seeing 333
isn't necessarily a sign that it's not supported, but SEEING it
would be a fair indicator of what you'd need to change to get CPU
running at correct default speed if motherboard doesn't set that
automatically.
 
Thanks for the well written reply, kony. A little research later and I
found out this MSI KT4V can do 333 FSB. Now I'm trying to figure out
what chip is the best performance per dollar. I'd like to spend around
100 bucks, which according to pricewatch.com gets me a Athlon XP 2800 -
333 FSB sans heatsink/fan with ten or so bucks to spare after shipping.

Not bad, I'm sporting a 1700+ right now and spent the last few hours
doing a MB change on a Win2K installation. Man, why doesnt the damn
recovery console have a text editor. I needed to change one damn letter
in boot.ini and had to put the drive in the old rig or else create a
win2k bootdisk.
 
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