Question regarding the ol' nForce1 chipset....

[Audiofight]

My HTPC is running an Asus A7N266-VM and I was curious what the fastest chip it would accept is?

I am currently running an older 1200 Athlon Thunderbird and it runs VERY hot b/c of the higher voltage.

I am really curious if any mobile AXP chips will work in it properly....

Thanks in advance.

 

[mechBgon]

I know for a fact it'll take Thorton desktop CPUs up to a 2400+ (you need the 1007 BIOS, but she'll run with older BIOSes, just not at 2000MHz... it picks 1933MHz instead). Mobiles, I don't know one way or the other.

Do you actually have a need for the power of a 1200MHz Athlon in there? Because you could drop in a Duron 1.6GHz and jumper it down to 100MHz bus and that should end up around 35-40 watts and still give you 1.2GHz.

 

[Audiofight]

Mech

Thanks for the info, in both threads.

I need the cpu power because I do play some games on this thing occasionally too. It is easier for me to yank a couple wires off the back of this in the living rather than un-hook my main rig from my bedroom.

Plus, I have this system around for friends, in case they want to join some LAN games when they visit. So, a Duron won't cut it. If it was just for Home Theater stuff (play DVDs and MP3s), then it would be great to either grab a mobile or a Duron...

I mainly want a newer chip that requires less voltage at default speeds. This 1200 sits at 1.8v all the time...lots of heat generated there.

 

[mechBgon]

This may help you get a relative ranking of processor heat outputs: http://users.erols.com/chare/elec.htm