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muchspl2
01-03-2004, 09:10 PM
Mobo Supporting AMD & 400mhz FSB (i like a7n8x)
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc....-131-468&depa=1 (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-131-468&depa=1) 80.00
AMD BARTON 2500+
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc....-103-378&depa=1 (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-378&depa=1) 85.00
PC3200 RAM

Go into bios, set your FSB from 333mhz to 400mhz, and enjoy the great 2500+ trick... See, AMD locked multipliers... but a 2500+ is a 333fsb x 11 proc... 400 x 11 = the 3200+ proc... It seems AMD repackaged 3200+'s as 2500+'s to save manufacturing costs...

works fine with stock cooling, stable as fuck

heres a screen shot from this
http://orbframe.com/upload/icombench.jpg

thats a 2500+ proc clocked with the 400fsb, reports as a 3200+

now I have talked to servel people that have doen this thinking about doing and you can't beat the prices what do you guys think

bigdawgfoxx
01-03-2004, 09:11 PM
Everyone on this forum has known about this for a looooong time.

We have the same stuff and your scores are 200points better then mine on both places...not to big of a diff. but what kind of ram do you have?

muchspl2
01-03-2004, 09:16 PM
okŪ

EDIT:
I haven't got it yet i was asking if it was common & what you guys think of a setup like this for the $
I try not to venture into hardwareworld as I don't know too much