K7 with 200MHz bus speed?

*shrugs* I can manage a 166Mhz FSB stably, even up to about 170Mhz or so, but my AXP runs out of steam then. Might have to kick down the multiplier even further, or go for a voltage mod. I highly doubt a 200Mhz FSB is realistic on today's Athlon yields, although most of the newer chipsets could theoretically support that high grade. You have to remember though, the Athlon <i>isn't</i> memory starved, and above a certain point, which I believe to be around 166Mhz, it no longer benefits greatly from the additional memory bandwidth.

"When there's a will, there's a way."

Well, the Athlon can use more memory bandwidth above 133Mhz, realistically, 266Mhz since it is DDR. It would more likely depend on the qulity of the channel dedicated to the EV6 bus. At 200Mhz, 400Mhz DDR, I don't think the Athlon would see as much of a gain. It might, just maybe be possible with some extreme water cooling with a peltier or liquid nitrogen cooling. I've seen a Pentium4 2.0a at 4.0Ghz running Windows XP stably with a liquid nitrogen cooler. It's nasty!

"When there's a will, there's a way."

Very very interesting... now I'm starting to wonder how high my good old AMD760 chipset can go. I own a peltier (172W which I was planning to use for the CPU someday). And I have watercooling, but not a very good waterblock for the NB (Koolance (although I don't have a Koolance case )), but maybe if I use two of them with a HSF above it I can control the heat... maybe I even buy a 72W peltier for this.
Thanks Eden... now I really want to continue to rebuild my watercooler. This would only cost me a lot of bucks (new memory, peltier, second NB watercooler, probably a second radiator and 120mm fan too. But what a fast system I would have then [big smile].

Due to the current economical depression it is forbidden to laugh at work.