don't know, the site mentions
"Supports AMD K7 AthlonT/AthlonT XP Socket A 200/266/333MHz FSB"
Maybe I thought the KT400 chip would support 400Mhz FBS CPU

JC

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"JC" wrote in message
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I have an Abit KD7-Raid motherboard, an Athlon XP2200 and 1Gb PC2100
DDR.
Due to this, my 400Mhz FBS mobo is running at 266Mhz and I am not sure I
am
getting great performance out of my FX5900 non-ultra. Both the
motherbaord
and FX5900 are AGP 8X .
Would getting an Athlon supporting 400Mhz FBS like an XP3200 and some
400Mhz
RAM like PC4000 improuve my graphics performance?
I speak mainly for UT2k3 which is almost the only 3D game I run on my
computer.
Thank you

JC



I too have an abit kd7 mobo. I'm pretty sure that it does NOT support
400MHz FSB proccessors.
Because it doesn't lock the pci/agp busses to their default clocks, just
changes thier ratio with the fsb, the highest FSB you could probably get
to
is 180-185 (360-370 effective) using the 1:2:5 pci divider..

To run at this level stably you will probably have to go to good PC3200
ram
(ram capable of handling 400MHz).
Good case cooling would help things too.

regards
chris

Abit KD7, , SLK800 + 80mm delta screamer, 2x256 OCZ CAS2
PC3200 @PC2700, 450W Qtec PSU, Creative 3dB Gf4Ti4400 (44.03), XP Home +
sp1
(Soon to be NF7-S rev2 & 333/XP2600)