FSB 200 v 266

[Newt]

Hi all,

I have a Gigabyte GA-71XE4 mobo, with a Duron 800Mhz CPU which has a FSB of
200.

I would like to upgrade the CPU, looking at Athlon 1.4Gb

My question is, what happens if I put a in a CPU with FSB of 266?

According to the website the CPUs with 266FSB are not applicable. Does this
they wont work or that they just havent been tested with the mobo? see
below
http://tw.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/CPUSupportList/CPUSupportList_GA
-7IXE4.htm

TIA
Newt

 

[Newt]

A

The chipset on the board doesn't support the 133FSB (266DDR) Athlons.
The 1.4Ghz chip uses a 10.5x multiplier, so if you put it in the board,
it would work ok, but would clock at 1050Mhz instead.

You have four options

1. Use the processor at 1050Mhz
2. Overclock the FSB to the max of 115Mhz, giving approx 1200Mhz
3. Unlock the processor's multiplier and up it to 14x (board permitting)
4. Don't bother

HTH.

Cheers,

4. Wont bother seems to be the only option with this mobo/cpu. Mobo is self
sensing, bios doesnt support changing the multiplier. Ill just stick to
uping from 100 to 115Mhz clock cycle.

It runs stable and it does what I want, I ll leave it alone for know.
Maybe if I can get hold of an other mobo cheap/free I may try then.

Thx

 

[Toby Groves]

You could always get a goldfinger (though I'm a Pentium user so I wouldn't
know much about those things, and all I understand is that they change the
CPU multiplier). From what I get it's kinda difficult to install (take off
the cover of the CPU?)

You're thinking of the original Slot A Athlons.