Can a 533FSB P4 live with an i850 chipset?

[dbal]

Question is quite clear and here is the short story: I have the ASUS P4T-E with the i850 and I guess Christmas is a good season for replacing my older 1,5Ghz Wilammete P4.
There are 2 senarios now:
a. I go out and get the 2.4Ghz Northwood with the 400Mhz FSB and live happily everafter till the next upgrade since it's officially supported by ASUS' latest bios I am running
b. Or ask my beloved forum about the possibilities of a working 533FSB P4 in my mobo since
1. The 2 versions of the chip (i850 and the i850E), aside Intel's strict validation policies that require a new chipset, are ,according to Anand's article for the 533FSB woodies, identical from an electrical and architectural standpoint.
2. The memory can be set to 3x multiplier and thus work within spec since 3x133FSB ==> 400Mhz
3. The bios though doesn't seem to support these P4s officially (why would ASUS want to do that anyway? To cut off the P4T533 sales??) so I guess I might be having some recognition problems at POST.

Anyone has any experience on such an experiment or even some better thoughts I might be missing?? Thanx a lot

 

[dbal]

Nobody???

 

[THUGSROOK]

im pretty sure it will work just fine using the latest bios.

very few of us have rambus in here ~ try asusboards.com for more rambus info.

 

[tedinde1]

UHH read my sig. Dam right it does. Abit th7II still the best till GB comes out. 850. And i've had every 850e made, Junk. And every 845 d,e,g,p

 

[dbal]

Has ABIT posted a bios update that officialy supports the 533P4s or do u have any recognition problems at POST Tedinde?

 

[Daovonnaex]

Even if there is no BIOS support, you can simply set the FSB to 133. The only problem is that if you have clock generators from Cypress Semiconductor and not ICS, you may not be able to set that high of an FSB speed.

 

[dbal]

Yep forgot to mention, I am lucky to have the ICS chips on my P4T-E even if I am thinking to drive the memory at 3x multiplier.