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will AMD's barton run on motherboards with kt266a chipsets

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BigMoe

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will new AMD barton cpus work on kt266a kt333 kt400 chipsets or will i need a new board all together?
 
Given that Barton will probably run at 333Mhz FSB, you would have to unlock it and adjust the multipliers to get it to run at native speed using a 266Mhz FSB for the KT266a. You'd also need a new version of your BIOS. Or it may not work at all. I'm not real sure on that. Of course, they could go ahead and release a 266Mhz FSB version of the CPU too and that would work with just a reflashed BIOS.


EDIT: It will work fine on KT333 and KT400 mobos.
 
beware of the new Barton and what mobos it will work on...I was lead to believe the tbred would be a small or incremental change and would probably work fine on my KR7A KT266A mobo....wrong...

so my opinion is until the chip is out and tested on a mobo no one will be sure..Abit line is there was an unexpected change in the Tbred and this is why it will not work even with the newer bios
 
so my opinion is until the chip is out and tested on a mobo no one will be sure..Abit line is there was an unexpected change in the Tbred and this is why it will not work even with the newer bios
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I think yer right.. we just gotta wait and see.
 
Swanny..nothing to be sorry about..I am just skeptical of all the assurances from mobo manufacturers about the compatibility issues after being burned by Asus(the Athlon XP and A7V133...marginal at best) and Abit(tbred and KR7A)
 
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