Help with older mobo

[thehandler]

Say guys, I'm running an older abit board: Abit NF7-S r.2.0.
I currenlty run a XP 2600+ Barton rated to run at 333MHZ bus speed.
I want to throw the best socket A CPU into it that I can which is the 3200 Barton for my older AGP system.
Problelm is this new CPU is rated to run at 400MHZ bus speed.
Does anyone know if this will work?
THX
Mike

 

[Jhhnn]

Consult your manual and the Abit site- if the board has 400fsb and if the bios will support the 3200, it should work.

 

[Regalk]

That board does not support higher than 200FSB (higher than 200 = overclocking). There were no Bartons or XP mobiles that exceeded 200 as far as i recall - I could be wrong. The highest was 3200+ (200 X 11) but lots of people was able to run at 200 X 12 stably. I ran my XP Mobile on the NF7-S ver 2 at 200 X 11.5 for a loong time

 

[Aluvus]

This review indicates that your board only supports up to a 333 MHz (double-pumped) Front Side Bus, which would rule out the 3200+. That being the case, the fastest part you could use without overclocking the motherboard would be the 2800+.

I would suggest you not bother.

 

[thehandler]

I just read it and it seems to say just the opposite to me.
" The NF7-S v2.0 is the latest revision of the motherboard. The latest revision has all of the features of the v1.2 but added Barton 400 MHz FSB support by using the Crush 18D chip

Originally posted by: Aluvus
This review indicates that your board only supports up to a 333 MHz (double-pumped) Front Side Bus, which would rule out the 3200+. That being the case, the fastest part you could use without overclocking the motherboard would be the 2800+.

I would suggest you not bother.

 

[Aluvus]

Originally posted by: thehandler

I just read it and it seems to say just the opposite to me.
" The NF7-S v2.0 is the latest revision of the motherboard. The latest revision has all of the features of the v1.2 but added Barton 400 MHz FSB support by using the Crush 18D chip

Well I fail the reading comprehension test...

 

[Regalk]

The way it should read is dual channeled "DDR" boards so
So 200 DDR (PC2100) = 100FSB X 2
333DDR (P2700) = 167FSB X 2
400DDR (PC3200) = 200FSB X2
I do not believe there was ever such a thing as a 400FSB mobile, Barton etc
AND they could not even run the board beyond 228FSB (most NF2 Boards could barely get to 225FSB without crapping out (I think only the DFI ever got to 250 and that was extreme).
Back then there was a bit of confusion by most as to what double pumped/dual channeled meant
The fastest I ever ran my NFS-7 board was 215 FSB. The DDR ran at 215 dual channel (since I could change the CPU multiplier upwards I ran at 200X 12 = to a 3400+ mobile XP (there was no such chip 3200+ was the last in the line before the A64 came out).
Now if a AMD mobile 3400+ OR higher came out subsequently I missed it

 

[thehandler]

I think it comes down to sempatics and some wording issues.
I understand what you guys are saying.
But just to clarify, there are plenty of guys running a 3200 on that board.
The board supports 200 x 2 = 400 dual channel.
The board is approved for the XP-3200.
I understand its not an ideal situation.
Mike

Originally posted by: Regalk
The way it should read is dual channeled "DDR" boards so
So 200 DDR (PC2100) = 100FSB X 2
333DDR (P2700) = 167FSB X 2
400DDR (PC3200) = 200FSB X2
I do not believe there was ever such a thing as a 400FSB mobile, Barton etc
AND they could not even run the board beyond 228FSB (most NF2 Boards could barely get to 225FSB without crapping out (I think only the DFI ever got to 250 and that was extreme).
Back then there was a bit of confusion by most as to what double pumped/dual channeled meant
The fastest I ever ran my NFS-7 board was 215 FSB. The DDR ran at 215 dual channel (since I could change the CPU multiplier upwards I ran at 200X 12 = to a 3400+ mobile XP (there was no such chip 3200+ was the last in the line before the A64 came out).
Now if a AMD mobile 3400+ OR higher came out subsequently I missed it