can you use a 266fsb CPU in a 200fsb motherboard

[istguru]

I recently purchase an ABIT KT7E mobo and did not relize it was only 200fsb. Then I purchase a Athlon 1.2Ghz 266FSB I was searching for a 200fsb chip and was told that i could use the chip i had it would just run at 200fsb to mobo . If some could let me know that would be great. Thanks in advance.

 

[Bulk Beef]

I think that board should do 133/266 fsb no problem. It's just not supported.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

sward666 is correct. Here is an excerpt from a
Review of your board

<< The KT133E, while it does not officially support 133MHz will sure as hell do 133/266 FSB, but that is close to tops for it. I have had two of these boards in my hands and both would run a solid 137/274 FSB but not much more and be stable. I have seen reports of some of these boards doing 140/280, and while mine would do it, they would not do it well enough to sign off on the board as "working correctly". We used our AMD 1.33GHz Athlon on this board to test with and could easily push it to 1.5GHz. We went with the faster CPU instead of a Duron on this value board so that we could really stress the board up to the edge of the envelope. Our OC from 1.33 to 1.5GHz may not seem like much of a push, but remember, we did not have a lot of FSB to work with. >>

 

[istguru]

thanks!!