2 Bartons, 1 locked, 1 unlocked-- 2 chipsets, KT333 & nforce2, which gets the unlocked?

[bupkus]

2 Bartons, 1 locked, 1 unlocked-- 2 chipsets, KT333 & nforce2, which gets the unlocked?

I have 2 bartons and 2 boards. One barton is locked, the other isn't.
Which board should get the unlocked one? Sounds like a riddle?

Board one is an Epox RDA+ with the nforce2 chipset w/ (2) modules of OCZ EL 256MB pc3500 ddr,
board two is an Epox 8K5A2+ with the via KT333 chipset w/ (1) module of Corsair XMS 512MB pc2700 ddr

My thinking is to put the locked Barton into the RDA+ as I'm sure I could up the fsb to 200 and be content with 2.2GHz.
The 8K5A2+ probably won't take the fsb as high so I will need to play with the multiplier to get the probable 2.2GHz ceiling.

I hope this one is unlocked.. it's stepping is:
AQXEA 0327 MPMW

 

[pelikan]

I'd put the locked one on the nforce2 if it will do high FSB.

 

[osage]

what pelikan said.......

 

[JSSheridan]

The locked CPU should go in the nForce board. The reason is that you can up the FSB without worrying about the PCI/AGP bus being out of spec. The KT333 doesn't have a 1/6 divider, so you are limited to less than 190 FSB. After you get to 190FSB, though I wouldn't go above 180FSB myself, you can use the multiplier to increase the speed. Peace.