Athlon 1400/266 in a 200fsb mobo?

[bakerchi]

I have a Compaq Presario 5000. It currently has an AMD Duron 750/200 fsb. According to Compaq the board will hold up to an Athlon 1400. Can I put a Athlon 1400/266 fsb in a 200 fsb motherboard? I've only found one site on the net that is selling the 1400/200 fsb.

 

[Lamoni]

You should be able to put that cpu in that board, but then it wouldn't be running at 1400 MHz. You would need to overclock it. If your board supports overclocking the FSB, you could just try moving it to 133MHz and you would know that the CPU would still run. Or you could just drop in the CPU and be running at around 1050 MHz with the 200FSB.

I would recommend getting the 200MHz FSB CPU, or waiting until you can save up a little more and buy a new motherboard with your CPU.

 

[Grub]

I am currently running a 1.4 Tbird (266) on a board that only supports 200. I'm pretty sure that the processor is running at 1.4 as well.

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[Edbiker]

Hi,
I too have been wondering about doing this as the price difference between 200fsb and 266fsb chips is horrendous. That's if you can find any 200fsb chips in the first place!

I have been trying to research this issue on the the web, but there seems very little information. I did find one site suggesting that you would need to unlock the multiplier on the processor to allow it to be increased to 14 x 100MHz. My question is whether the 266fsb chip would actually be able to handle a 14x multiplier and remain stable? Are the 200fsb and 266fsb chips similar enough to allow this? After all the 200fsb chip was obviously capable of handling a 14x multiplier to run at 1.4GHz.

(P.S. Please don't advise me to save up for AthlonXP-64 5000 etc. as I am more interested in whether the above is actually possible and it would be a cheap stop gap upgrade anyway.)

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[niconx]

You can put a 1400/266 in there and use trace tape to unlock the cpu and run it at 1400 with the 200fsb and increased multiplier. <A HREF="http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/frozencpu/tra-01.html?id=dt6uMI8x" target="_new"> heres the trace tape </A>
You should double check and make sure that your psu/mobo can handle that cpu though, compaq likes to use el-cheapo stuff. here are the power requirements for the tbird as opposed to your paltry duron. Make sure the mobo/psu can live up to it, else it wont live very long lol
<pre>speed voltage minW maxW
1400MHz 1.75V 65.0W 72.0W
700MHz 1.5V 22.9W 31.6W
</pre><p>

 

[phsstpok]

Wish I had access to an OEM system like yours.

I've already installed an XP1700+ (Tbred B), modified to be an XP2400+, onto an Abit KT7 mobo (200 Mhz FSB). The CPU POSTs at 20 x 100 or 2000 Mhz by default but I don't know if it would work in an OEM rig.

I'd really like to try it.

<b>99% is great, unless you are talking about system stability</b>

 

[khha4113]

You can put a 1400/266 in there and use trace tape to unlock the cpu and run it at 1400 with the 200fsb and increased multiplier.

I believe there's no need since it's already unlocked.
BTW, I used pencil #2 to unlock Athlon Thunderbird and I found it was very reliable.

Good or Bad have no meaning at all, depends on what your point of view is.<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by khha4113 on 02/24/03 08:25 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Teq]

Make your life easier... put in a Duron 1200 or 1300... it'll probably go just as fast and be a lot more stable.


<b>(</b>It ain't better if it don't work.<b>)</b>

 

[dhlucke]

Make your life easier... put in a Duron 1200 or 1300... it'll probably go just as fast and be a lot more stable.

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[Crashman]

According to the information I find, the 1400 is unlocked, so as long as you can adjust multipliers in BIOS or by jumper, you should be able to get it to full speed at 14x100, or darned close to full speed anyway (depending on mutiplier limits).

In the odd chance that the CPU is locked, you can use pencil to unlock it via the L1 bridges.

I know someone else mentioned it, but with so many opinions flying, I thought you'd like confimation on at least one of them.

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[phial]

an athlon 1.4 will smack any duron around


wtf joo tokin bout ???

 

[Crashman]

Who doesn't know that already? Free post for you?

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