[PLUG] Athlon gotcha...

[Petcher, Danielx J]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: robinsoq [mailto:robinsoq at mail.opusnet.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 11:09 AM
> To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: [PLUG] Athlon gotcha...
> 
> 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


I don't know the answer off-hand because I've always bought my chips
with the MoBo at the same time and place. I'd recommend going to
www.overclockers.com or some similar hardware enthusiasts' page if you
can't get an answer here.

-djp
http://folding.stanford.edu - the brain you save may be your own!