barton vs thoroughbred

[IronOxide]

This should be pretty easy for you guys, but I just wanna make sure. I have a ecs k7s5a motherboard and was wondering if I could stick an amd 2500 xp barton processor. Thanks guys!

 

[clicknext]

I'm pretty sure you can't because the barton is 166mhz FSB while the most the K7S5A can do is 133mhz.

 

[pspada]

You can use the cheepoman bios and speed fan, to run the processor at the correct multiplier and fsb speed - but you can also just jack up the multiplier while leaving the fsb at 133 so that you get equivelant performance from your chip.

 

[zephyrprime]

you can also just jack up the multiplier while leaving the fsb at 133

The ecs k7s5a doesn't support manual multiplier settings or fsb speed increases.

 

[Doh!]

Originally posted by: zephyrprime

you can also just jack up the multiplier while leaving the fsb at 133

The ecs k7s5a doesn't support manual multiplier settings or fsb speed increases.

But a wire-trick does.

[edit] It sounds as though the modified bios mentioned by pspada provides the necessary tweaks.