Unsupported processor question

[RandomFool]

I posted this in the motherboards forum, and then i stole it and put it here.

Hello there. I have an epox 8k3a+ and my processor(1800) recently died when my heatsink clip snapped off and chipped it. Anyways i looked up my board on the epox site and it said it supports up to a t-bred 2600+. The document that said this was about two years old and i emailed epox about it wondering if one of the bios updates that came out after the list was released added support for thortons/bartons or anything like that. They told me the list was correct and that was about it.

So here's my question. I think i can put a barton in my board and it should detect as unreconized processor. Is there any drawback/benefit to trying this? or should i just stick to a 2600 t-bred and be happy?

-Ryan

 

[SickBeast]

Search some forums on the 'net to see if anyone else with your motherboard managed to successfully run a Barton.

 

[thetman]

I'm not sure if it changes from mobo to mobo. I've been told that it should work, but on my Soyo board, it didn't.

 

[MDE]

You could try a mobile Barton chip, they run at a 266MHz FSB standard. This review says they got theirs to run a 400MHz FSB, so you should probably be able to do it.