Highest Athlon on GA-7VAX KT400? ( 3000 or 3200?)

[bungee]

Hi!
I got a year ago a mobo Gigabytes GA-7VAX to replace a defect KT266 from MSI (damn them...). Anyway, I still have my good ol' thunderbird 1.2 GHz. The thing is that with the coming of the Athlon 64, I want to get the best Athlon XP working on my board while quantities last. I'm just not sure if the 3200+ is working on this board, maybe an incompatibility with the bus?
Moreover, I have 2x256 MB DDR266 right now. Are the 3000+ and 3200+ require at least DDR333? If so, which is better between DDR333 and DDR400 considering that my KT400 chipset was not performing well with DDR400 on Tom's review... Is it fixed?
Thanks a lot!

<font color=red>Damn MSI! Two months since my K7T266 broke and no news since then!

 

[twofruitz]

the 3200 requiers DDR400 to run in sync with its fast 400fsb. you will not get good system performance out of your old ram as your system will have a major bottleneck. Only a few Mobos support the 3200 as the FSB is faster then previous models. Nforce2 & the New Nforce3 are the way to go if your going to run faster chips.

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[Spitfire_x86]

KT400 is limited to 333 MHz FSB.

The best Athlon you can use is Athlon XP 3000+. IMO, AXP 2700+ is a wiser buy, since it's very little slower and costs much less.

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