2.4B vs 2.4C on a BH7

[Acts837]

I have a BH7 running a Celery 2GHz with 1GB of Crucial PC2700. Looking at getting a better chip and saw new egg has the 2.4B retail for $160 shipped. Dilemna:

2.4B = 18 x 133
2.4C = 12 x 200

2.4C on my BH7 (533 supported) = 12 x 133 is only 1.6

If I go ahead and spend the extra for a 2.4c will my memory and mobo support the 200 fsb?

 

[S0me1X]

If you have no plans of upgrading the mobo, then it'd be wiser to get the 2.4B since you would be able to overclock it.

The BH7 can handle FSB of 200, but not much higher.

 

[althes]

The 2.4b would be better

 

[Acts837]

Thanks for the input! Anyone own the BH7 with a 2.4c or 2.6c chip?

 

[XNice]

yea and my expereince with it sucked..well sucks im still having a problem with it.
I have 512mb of Buffalo PC3200 ram
BH7 with 5/23/2003 bios
P2.4c which when manually set to 200mhz will not boot . It jus gives off that long beep u dont want to hear.

 

[Acts837]

Thats what I figured. Last week I bought a 2.4B...glad that I did.

 

[XNice]

Well found out that somehow locking th pci bus to 33mhz gave me all my problems. I raised it to 37mhz and its been working fine. But on a BH7 I would jus go with a B version anyway to save any potential headaches.

 

[brainwave]

I put a 2.4C on a 845 Albatron board. It is true that it would not boot at 200FSB, but it would run at 190FSB. Even "under-clocking" to 166FSB for more secure stability, the 2.4C running at 2.0 shows better benchmarks than the 2.4B at 133FSB. The advantage of running the 2.4C is that you are not oc'ing the processor and therefore not running any risk of damage to the chip, you have the advantage of hyper-threading, and if you upgrade to a 865 or 875 mobo, you already have the processor. Also, Albatron told me they are working on a BIOS upgrade which will support 800FSB on my board. Abit and Asus often release new bios when customers ask for it.