Dual 333mhz AMD Board???

[djmatix]

Hello,

I building my first SMP... Moded Dual AMD XP 2600+ Barton 1.9Ghz Socket A 333mhz. But can not find an AMD board that's higher than 266Mhz?under clocked. What am I missing?

I'm at ends here; Any suggestions folks??? Or maybe there's a way to change the capacitors on the board...

?I have not bought the board, yet.

Thank you in advance.

Jeff

 

[Peter]

You are missing the fact that the Athlon MP platform is FSB266, period. If you look at the actual Athlon MP processors offered, you'll find that even the Barton 2800+ are FSB266.

 

[djmatix]

Hmmm...

So, they don't make higher performance boards for lower-end chipsets? Or, MPs don't go higher than 333mhz?

In any case, what board would you recommend for the afore mentioned Chipsets; and, what's the next step up?

Thanks for your input.

 

[Peter]

Again, Athlon MP platform uses 133 MHz for CPU and RAM busses, resulting "FSB266" and "PC2100" speed grades. The only chipset for dual-Athlon is AMD's own 760MPX, doing exactly that. The bus speed hype of the single-CPU commodity boards simply wasn't duplicated here in the serious-workhorse arena. In return, you get a second, fast PCI bus at 66 MHz w/ 64-bit slots. And you should use "registered" DIMMs rather than commodity "unbuffered", again a stability thing.