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CPU barton v thoroughbred
I have a ASUS A7N266-VM motherboard that according to the asus web site will
take a Athlon XP 2600+(266FSB)(Model 8)(Thoroughbred) but no mention of the barton core i have a XP2600+ (333fsb) barton core cpu - will this run on this board |
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no only 100 or 133
"yak" wrote in message . .. In article , says... I have a ASUS A7N266-VM motherboard that according to the asus web site will take a Athlon XP 2600+(266FSB)(Model 8)(Thoroughbred) but no mention of the barton core i have a XP2600+ (333fsb) barton core cpu - will this run on this board you could look in the bios and see if you can set the fsb to 166 mhz. |
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On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 18:52:05 GMT, yak wrote:
you could look in the bios and see if you can set the fsb to 166 mhz. that means that barton would only run at 266... which would turn it into a very cool running 1800+ or something. get a new mb or stick with the tb. it's a fine cpu. There may be ways to work around this... I have an A7N266-VM running a mobile barton @ 170-something FSB. Board didn't offer multiplier changes, or maybe it did but it doesn't "remember" them after a reboot, I forget. Anyway, because I wanted the mobile barton overclocked instead of the default multiplier, I burnt a couple of it's bridges for resulting multiplier of 14X. In the OP's situation if he's happy with default multiplier then there is no need to do this. As for bios, it won't halt the board if the Barton is installed, it'll post and run one fine except there is the issue of FSB support to overcome. As for FSB, the CPU should initially run at default multiplier and 133MHz FSB. However, there is a modification that can be done to that board to enable the bios feature of setting the FSB higher, up to around 181MHz. Basically what Asus did is provide a spot on the PCB for a pin-header so a jumper could be used to select FSB range, as they did on many other boards, but then later they omitted this header and in that spot on the PCB, they soldered on a permanent jumper wire. To enable the bios settings up to 180FSB, that wire needs desoldered/removed or carefully cut. Through the magic of time travel i shall now go check on the details of this and be back before you even realize I was gone. ....... .... ....... http://69.36.189.159/usr_1034/a7n266-vm_jump2.jpg http://69.36.189.159/usr_1034/a7n266-vm_jump1.jpg http://www.geekmods.com/users/csmokey/a7n266-vm_MOD/ One of the issues of running higher FSB is that it may not be stable with both memory slots populated. That is, a double-sided 512MB memory module is stable in mine up to 180MHz, but two singe-sided 256MB modules aren't stable, even though they're confirmed working well past same speed in another board... A7N266-VM just isn't very stable o'c with two physical modules, even after I added a quite beefy active northbridge 'sink to mine. Even so, for what it is, it's not a bad HTPC platform with 512MB, and the higher FSB helps the integrated video some, though beyond a certain point the bios setting for "overclock AGP" or whatever it's called, must be disabled so AGP stays @ 66MHz. A suitable alternate approach would be leaving FSB @ 133MHz and raising multiplier with manual mods. http://www.ocinside.de has a very helpful set of mod guides for this purpose in their "workshop" section off the main menu. |
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