Mother boards

[carpenter]

I have 2 mother boards and don't know if I'm putting the right stuff on them. One is a KT3 Ultra w/rd and the other is an Asus A7V333. The KT3 is up and running. It has: 2000XP, 512 PC2700. 9000 Pro 128, 2- 100GB WD SE hds hooked up raid 0. The other is in the case, but not running. I just purchased a 2400 XP and a matched set of XMS Corsair PC2700 C2 memory (1G). I was going to swap the new chip and memory onto the KT mobo and put the other stuff on the Asus. But am I wasting my time? Am I really gaining anything by doing this? I just realised the Asus has a 4x agp and 266 fsb. Would I be better off going to a A7V or A7N8X board and a barton?

 

[microAmp]

Are you thinking about upgrading the motherboard to the A7N8X? Just for AGP 8x and 166 MHz FSB?

CPU support for whatever motherboards, i.e. A7V333. Depending what revision the A7V333 is (hopefully 2.0) it can do the 166 MHz and is supported with the correct BIOS revision too. The 2400+ is only 133 MHz FSB so you really don't need the 166 MHz unless you planning to upgrade to a future Athlon XP, then I would get the nForce2 chipset with 200 MHz FSB support, like the one you mentioned.

Difference between AGP 8x and 4x isn't really all that much.

The decision between KT3 Ultra and A7V333 to me wouldn't matter.