Athlon 64 backwards compatibility

[Painreliever]

Admittedly I have not been reading as much on the CPUs lately as I should, but I was wondering will Athlon 64s work in a Nforce2 Ultra 400 board or will a new chipset and motherboard be required to use them. I saw there were diferent pin configurations. Can anyone enlighten me on the difference? I recently just bought a gigabyte GA-7n400 Pro and a gig of 3700 DDR, but I was going to wait to upgrade my processor till the price of the 400 bus speed processors came down a bit. If the new 64 bits are compatible with what I now have how long will I have to wait to get a decent processor and what should I shoot for? I was hoping to not spend more than 250-300 on a proc. Thanks in advance for the advice and help!

 

[Crashman]

The A64 will never be compatable...but the price on the XP3200+ should drop to around $70 a few months after the new ones come out, and stay there for around 2 years.

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[pIII_Man]

you could always overclock

If i put my k6 in a Ferrari it would be faster than your your pentium 4 or Athlon XP :tongue:

 

[Flinx]

PIII - Have you seen results on overclocking the XP3200's?
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Since your pushing OC so much maybe you could provide a summary of what one might reasonably expect to overclock the the Barton cores too.

XP2500+ -- range
XP2800+ -- range
etc. etc.
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Or should I just stick my nose in the Overclockers section?


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[pIII_Man]

My guess is that the results of a 2500 would be very simular to the results of a 2800 and a 3200...simply because the 2500 has alot of head room even at stock speeds...possibly a 3200 may overclock a tad better...but probably no by much...as most 2500's can top 3200 speeds with ease at stock voltage....

If i put my k6 in a Ferrari it would be faster than your your pentium 4 or Athlon XP :tongue: