Will the mobile Athlon chips run in a Via KT266a board?

[kami]

I have a Soltek SL-75DRV4 with the latest bios. It has a KT266a chipset. Right now I'm running an AthlonXP 2400+ (NON-barton). I don't want to spend the cash right now on a full mobo/RAM upgrade since all my RAM is PC2100, so I was wondering if anyone has had any luck with the Mobile chips running in KT266a boards?

I was looking at the 2500+ 2600+ and planned to do a bit of overlocking with the multiplier, and as much of the FSB as my RAM will allow.

Not a dramatic increase in performance but it'll be noticable since I do a lot of encoding and rendering and I wanna squeeze every bit of juice I can out of Doom 3 (my video card is a 9800 pro).

thanks

 

[Zebo]

it will if bartons work in that board. They work in every board that a barton works in. My sugesstion is get the 2600 which is almost guarnateed 2500Mhz with 1.75Vcore or less.

Look in you bios and make sure you have multipliers up to 18-20.

 

[kami]

Well all the Barton's before the Mobile's have been 333FSB, so no Barton's could have ever worked with a 266FSB board like the KT266a. But since these bartons are 266FSB I just figured they would work.

Anyone tried it?

 

[CraigRT]

kami you're lucky your 2400+ works, you must have the latest revision. I emailed Soltek about my SL-75DRV4 and they said the fastest CPU I could put in the rev 1.0 board was a 2100+.

Brutal.

This thing has no more upgrade path, just gotta keep it with the Pally 1700+ in it now, and keep it til it dies, or sell it as is. Oh yeah, I even tried a T-Bred 1700+ for OCing and the mobo can't detect the CPU properly. quite sad indeed. great mobo too.

 

[kami]

That sucks Craig. Yes I have the latest revision (I think there was 3) and the latest bios allows Athlon 2400 and 2600 (266FSB) but I had no idea AMD made a 2600+ in 266FSB.

I've been searching everywhere but can't find any answers...arrrgghhh

 

[MDE]

I ran a desktop 2500+ on an Epox KT266a board and it worked, but at a 266FSB. You may need the wire mod to get higher multipliers.

 

[kami]

I'm thinking about just trying it and if it doesn't work, invest in a mobo a week or two later. Just not in the mood for a reformat right now is all.

 

[maluckey]

I can't vouch for a Soltek board, but the Mobile Bartons work in the Abit KR7a-133. It requires a bit of painting to raise the multiplier from the 6x default that it would boot at normally. The KR7a-133 runs the 2400+ mobile Barton chip without a hitch, at 14 x 166. It also runs at 133 x 14, and 133 x 16 just fine. 19x and 21x are also available if you feel the need to run at 133 Mhz FSB.

The Abit board is not unique among KT266a boards in it's ability to run the Mobile Bartons, and I am sure that ANY board that can run a Barton, can run a Mobile Barton, so long as you don't mind OC'ing the old fashioned way with cutting/painting.

 

[zephyrprime]

Works for my kt266a. But it can't hit the highest multipliers. You can use crystalcpuid to get up to 15x.