Mobile Athlon 2400 in what mb?

[KrisC]

I have a mobile athlon 2400 that I wanna try to run/play with in an Nforce2 board. An Asus A7n8x-e to be specific... Will I fry anything if I put this in there? I have a fairly large heatsink so I am gonna try to overclock it to no end... (if the MB can run the chip to begin with.)

Thanks in advance

 

[wseyller]

Is was once common for people to put mobile athlon cpu's in a desktop pc's because of the lower voltage it used and especially the fact that the mobiles were multiplier unlocked which allow people to overclock the piss out of them with the addition of good cooling.

 

[duragezic]

Sounds good. You're a bit late to the game with that mobile Barton, but it was once the craze.

 

[KrisC]

So, yes? Once common? How new do folks systems have to be to run win XP? Sheesh, and I used to be cutting edge, but that crap is expensive these days... To be fair though I do have 5 computers in the house. (All above 3ghz rated)

 

[WobbleWobble]

Any P2 based system with enough memory can really run WinXP adequately, so a Athlon 2400 can definately run WinXP without choking.

Yes, it can easily be dropped into your Asus A7N8X-E without frying. The only catch is I don't think the stock BIOS recognizes the CPU ID tag. But that's just a simple cosmetic thing. There are modified BIOSes that do put in that string for you, however.

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Originally posted by: KrisC
I have a mobile athlon 2400 that I wanna try to run/play with in an Nforce2 board. An Asus A7n8x-e to be specific... Will I fry anything if I put this in there? I have a fairly large heatsink so I am gonna try to overclock it to no end... (if the MB can run the chip to begin with.)

My own XP-M 2400 is in a DFI NF-II LanParty Infinity MB, which is happy with it. My own A7N8X is not an "E" or a Deluxe, but rather an "-X" budget version. I have an XP 3000 in that one, running at XP 3200 speed. The XP-M runs quite cool at the same speed, when I compare them. I have had the same Vantec TMD AeroFlow HSF's on both; Ausus' temp probe and its BIOS' health stats both showed the CPU running pretty hot, but I can't confirm that.

I can touch the bases of both heat sinks with my fingers. The one on the Asus MB is barely luke warm to the touch when the CPU temp is reported to be 63 Celcius. I think that the MB probe exaggerates. The DFI temp probe may be slightly under-reporting, but the base of that HSF (on the OC'd XP-M) has never even felt warm at all no matter what I have had the system doing.

The DFI-based PC has a Gigabyte HSF on it now, the Neon7 model, and if anything, the base now feels still cooler to the touch, almost ambient, in fact. I really like the particular bright blue color of the Gigabyte HSFs' fans. I have a Neon8 on hand now, to use on an A64 build that is impending.


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[KrisC]

Thanks folks. I'll give it a go the next time I have a free moment. The MB currently has an XP 3000 like the above poster. My home server has P4 2400 that I was thinking of replacing with this combo to save power. (Its always running and all.) So I have to establish stability and such before I put in into service. Still gotta figure out what to do with my P4 3ghz Hyperthread 800mhz FSB... Maybe that will be the wife's workstation?

I agree that the onboard temp probe of the ASUS boards exagerate. (Higher than actual) But as the above poster, I do not have proof.

Thanks again guys. I have a huge Zaleman Heatsink and Kingston HyperX pc3200 memory, so I am hoping for a serious overclock.