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What motherboard will support XP2500 or 2000 mHz CPU

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madmickey

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The Inquirer was talking about a XP 2200 running at 13.5 multiplier. The XP2500 are supposed to be running at 133/266 MHz FSB. If the CPU is 2000 MHz The multiplier will have to be 15. A majority of Current kt266 A board will not support it Assess A7V 266 E, Soyo Dragon Plus, and Shuttle maximum is 14, Soltex and Gigabyte maximum multiplier is 12.5. MSI and Epox have a 15 maximum multiplier but they will not run anything above a XP2500 at 133/266 MHz bus.

If they increase bus speed we would be able to run 166/333 MHz bus 2000 MHZ on a Asus A7V 266-E.
 
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the XP2500+ will be based on at least the Thoroughbred core. It wouldn't be unlikely if none of the current mobos are compatible.
 
They should be using a socket A connector, but my question is that none of the current motherboards support over 2000 mHz at 133/266 Fsb if there maxium multipler is 15 or less. Tom in his anlaysis of Pentium versus Altlon commented on needing new motherboards for Pentium, The current Athlon motherboard may also have a limited life due to this multiplier problem.


http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q1/020107/p42200-19.html
last pargraph
"Some final thoughts on investment safety: in a few months, Intel will introduce the P4 with 133 MHz FSB. In addition, there will be 533 MHz Rambus memory. It is impossible to upgrade a current system that is built on the Pentium 4 Northwood with 133 MHz. Current motherboards only support 100 MHz FSB, even though the BIOS might indicate the contrary. Furthermore, 533 MHz RDRAM modules are expected to be twice the price of conventional PC800 modules. In this case, it might well be better to wait a while, or to choose a P4-chipset with DDR SDRAM support in the first place"

The Sis 645 chipset may be the only motherboard that will have any future.
 
Billyjak I hope that occurs instead of companies forcing us to buy Kt333 motherboard which may offer 3% better performance over kt266a motherboard. I delayed buying a computer last year because Tom in a june article said that the nforce was going to revolutionize motherboard and was going to be available by late August.
 
The Abit KR7A didn't even have support for the 200+ , they just updated their bios to support it now/
I assume they will do it for later releases also.
Most mobo manufactures will do it also.
 
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