Barton with kt266A??

[zor]

will a barton 2500+, 2800+ and 3000+ work in a kt266A board (like my a7v266-c) with the fsb at 266?

3000+@133Mhz fsb*13.0=1733Mhz
it would be the same amount of Mhz than a 2100+ but with 512Kb of cache.

Zor

 

[JimmyDean]

Nope

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[Ryan_Plus_One]

It would work, you can run it at Duron speeds of 100Mhz if you really wanted to. It just seems rather wasteful, especially considering how much motherboards that support 166 FSB go for these days.

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[eden]

That is what the TMC adapter is made for, to allow old pre-166MHZ FSB boards to use high multipliers and compensate the low FSB and get back the true clock nonetheless for that new CPU.

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[dwellman]

I wouldn't be wont to try it without proper BIOS support.

Seriously.

It sucks, I know. But, you'd be better off getting a new MOBO anyway. There's much to gain from that: USB 2.0, SATA, AGP 8X, and the like.

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