Sorry but PCI Express AMD mobos are not yet available - neither are intel PCI Express mobos (though I expect them to be here sooner)...mkillio said:I'm building an AMD system for my friend and he wants to stay under $900. He wants 512mb of RAM, a dvd-r/cd-rw, 80GB SATA HD, PCI Express MOBO, Sound Blaster Sound card, a mid-high end ATI video card.
kmolazz said:Athlon XPs have the multiplier locked (except for the mobiles ), so it's the FSB you want to change.
Wrong.
All nForce2 chipsets unlock the multiplier automatically since their release - that's what made them soooo succesful product.
That's just wrong. All CPUs after the AQZEA stepping are locked. Only old bartons or new mobiles can be OCed via multiplier.T2k said:kmolazz said:Athlon XPs have the multiplier locked (except for the mobiles ), so it's the FSB you want to change.
Wrong.
All nForce2 chipsets unlock the multiplier automatically since their release - that's what made them soooo succesful product.
I've just sold my Abit NF7-S which is far the best OC and featured mobo, I think - my Barton 2500+ was running on 2500MHz with 2.22V on water...
You can still overclock post-week 39 bartons, but it has some shortcomings. You can turn them into mobile cpus (or even mobile MP if you want...) with bridge painting, then the powernow features which allow changing multiplier on the fly become available. Unfortunately, most bios can't quite handle that, you can change however the multiplier using some windows programs (for instance cpumsr, if you want higher multiplier than stock, you need to do more bridge painting IIRC). Last time I checked those programs just cause a crash on nforce2 systems unfortunately . Definitely not so easy as before...mustrum said:That's just wrong. All CPUs after the AQZEA stepping are locked. Only old bartons or new mobiles can be OCed via multiplier.T2k said:kmolazz said:Athlon XPs have the multiplier locked (except for the mobiles ), so it's the FSB you want to change.
Wrong.
All nForce2 chipsets unlock the multiplier automatically since their release - that's what made them soooo succesful product.
I've just sold my Abit NF7-S which is far the best OC and featured mobo, I think - my Barton 2500+ was running on 2500MHz with 2.22V on water...