Question about new AMD boards

[biennerienno]

was the limiter in fsb overclocking on the boards or the processor, meaning will i be able to run the 900 tbird i just bought at a faster front side bus. this will be a major factor in what board i will purchase for this processor, so please tell me what board to go with

 

[SmackdownHotel]

Well most of the boards give you full adjustment of the FSB in 1 MHz increments. the AMD chips don't overclock that far via the FSB since they're already running at a 200mhz bus and they're basically "maxed out." The highest FSB I've seen on a T-Bird or Duron was 115mhz, but that is extremely rare.

 

[biennerienno]

but the new chips and chipsets are meant to run at 133 ie 266. i was wondering if i will get any chip performance and not just ram performance (ddr). so please someone try to help me with understanding the main points of this board

 

[paulip88]

You will not be able to run the TBird 900 that you just bought on the new DDR boards. The new boards will use a new revision of the Tbird that will run at 133x2 FSB. The current CPUs cannot handle that.

The new boards will not work with your CPU.

 

[JonJon]

why would the new board/chipsets not be backwards compatible? they won't offer a 100 and 133 fsb setting? i mean you can use a p2 in any new slot 1 board.......why wouldn't that hold true for the new ddr.....especially since there is a pc1600 ddr variety

 

[Henry Kuo]

first, i have to say i don't have any ddr boards yet, so what i am going to say is just what i think / believe.

i don't think the reason why fsb o/c difficulty is due to the amd processors. from what i learned, early on amd has stated that their chips are well capable of running 133 fsb. the reason is the chipset and the ev6 bus, which doesn't run high fsb well. the chip (tbird and duron) are very well against 133 fsb

i have heard both ways that the 760 chipset does / doesn't run 200mhz chip. i think it should, reason being you can use pc1600 ddr memory on the 760 board. if the chip you put onto the board can only run at 133, it would be weird to put in a pc1600 ddr which actually runs at 100mhz. i think there should be a setting on the 760 board that choose either 100 / 133 amd chips. maybe not in the amd reference board yet, though...

 

[Toonces311]

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