[PLUG] Athlon gotcha...

robinsoq robinsoq at mail.opusnet.com
Fri Jul 11 11:10:03 UTC 2003


I've been looking on E-Bay for a 1 Ghz Athlon to put on a FIC Aspen 2
motherboard and have discovered that the one I'm bidding on has a 266mhz
front side bus where the ASPEN2 board I want to put it on only supports 
up to 200mhz FSB.  The question I have is, will the 266mhz FSB version 
of the Athlon work on this board?

I'm bidding half on prcoessor and fan for the 1 gigahertz Athlon with 266 mhz
front side bus that I can get a 1 gigahertz Athlon with 200 mhz front side
bus and no fan for buy it now.  The former is only six months used where the 
latter is probably refurb.
 
Maybe someone will still outbid me for the 1 Ghz Athlon 266 mhz FSB at which
point I can just get the other in case I need the other.

I had no idea there were multiple versions of the Athlon operating at the
same cpu clock speed with different internal bus speeds.

   --  Michael C. Robinson 




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