Greetings, AnandTech Forum members!
I am a poweruser operating on a budget, so I would like to maximize the performance achievable with my current hardware. The processor has become the bottleneck on this machine, I would like to hear what you have to say. I am currently running an AMD Athlon (Thunderbird) Proc @ 1333 MHz on an Asus A7M266 Mainboard. According to Asus, with the latest BIOS revision, the said mainboard will support up to an AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (Palomino) Proc due to the 266 MHz front-side bus constraint of my motherboard.
I am wondering if it would be possible to run a faster CPU that also supports the 266 MHz FSB limitation natively in my mainboard. After doing some research, I found that the AMD Athlon 2400+ (Thoroughbred) Proc is the fastest desktop release supporting the 266 MHz front-side bus natively. It is also based on the Socket A design, so would this work in my mainboard?
The other option I was toying with was getting the AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Mobile (Barton) Proc because it has a higher clock speed, more on-board cache, and also supports the 266 MHz FSB limitation natively. This CPU also uses the Socket A specs, so would I be able to this chip in my mainboard?
Here is a list of my current hardware:
Antec True480 PSU
Asus A7M266 Mainboard
AMD Athlon (Thunderbird) Proc @ 1333 MHz
1024 MB PC-2100 (266 MHz) DDR SDRAM
Asus Radeon 9600XT
Creative SoundBlaster Live! 5.1
In addition, I also have dual optical drives (DVD-ROM and DVD+/-RW) and three hard disk drives (2-40 GB, 1-200 GB, all three 7200 RPM) purring inside of my Antec full tower case. As you can see, the CPU is the bottleneck of my current configuration.
Any advice the great members of the AnandTech Forums would be willing to offer would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you kindly.
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:beer: bigd0g
I am a poweruser operating on a budget, so I would like to maximize the performance achievable with my current hardware. The processor has become the bottleneck on this machine, I would like to hear what you have to say. I am currently running an AMD Athlon (Thunderbird) Proc @ 1333 MHz on an Asus A7M266 Mainboard. According to Asus, with the latest BIOS revision, the said mainboard will support up to an AMD Athlon XP 2100+ (Palomino) Proc due to the 266 MHz front-side bus constraint of my motherboard.
I am wondering if it would be possible to run a faster CPU that also supports the 266 MHz FSB limitation natively in my mainboard. After doing some research, I found that the AMD Athlon 2400+ (Thoroughbred) Proc is the fastest desktop release supporting the 266 MHz front-side bus natively. It is also based on the Socket A design, so would this work in my mainboard?
The other option I was toying with was getting the AMD Athlon XP 2600+ Mobile (Barton) Proc because it has a higher clock speed, more on-board cache, and also supports the 266 MHz FSB limitation natively. This CPU also uses the Socket A specs, so would I be able to this chip in my mainboard?
Here is a list of my current hardware:
Antec True480 PSU
Asus A7M266 Mainboard
AMD Athlon (Thunderbird) Proc @ 1333 MHz
1024 MB PC-2100 (266 MHz) DDR SDRAM
Asus Radeon 9600XT
Creative SoundBlaster Live! 5.1
In addition, I also have dual optical drives (DVD-ROM and DVD+/-RW) and three hard disk drives (2-40 GB, 1-200 GB, all three 7200 RPM) purring inside of my Antec full tower case. As you can see, the CPU is the bottleneck of my current configuration.
Any advice the great members of the AnandTech Forums would be willing to offer would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you kindly.
__________________________________________________
:beer: bigd0g
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