Asus A7V266-E and XP 2700+

gtghmgtghm New
edited January 2004 in Hardware
Is any one running this combo or know if it will work?

A friend of mine wants to upgrade his processor and I can get the XP 2700 at just over a c note... But according to the latest BIOS download it supposed to add in support for the XP 2600+ so I'm not sure that the 2700 will work.
Is it possible that he could get that one and change the mhz manualy for the CPU in the BIOS and that would work, at least until a new bios is put out?

Thanks,
"g"

Comments

  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited January 2004
    It's not listed on ASUS's site. Besides, the 2700 is a 333FSB CPU, AFAIK, which means it won't work anyhow.
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    Geeky's right, 2700+ is a 333 MHz fsb chip. Might run in the Asus but at grossly underspeed, and the mobo may or may not overclock to 333 (166) from 266 (133). Then again, the mobo may just not recognize the cpu period.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited January 2004
    Keto, I tend to doubt it'll work at all. Why? Because my A7M-266 (AMD 761 chipset ASUS board) is spec'd up to 1700+; you'd think it'd take a 2200, right? They're both 133MHz bus chips and everything after all. Nope. It won't take anything higher than a 1700.
  • gtghmgtghm New
    edited January 2004
    Uhmm, according to PC Chubs (PC Club) http://www.pcclub.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=A1906285 it looks to me its not the barton core. According to their sales person they sell both the 2700 barton core and non bartons. He said that he thinks they went all the way up to 2700 on the non barton core.
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    I've never seen a 2700+ Barton for sale, am reasonably certain one was NOT made. If I remember right, there was a lotta hoopla when the 2700+ came out, it was the first 333 fsb chip.

    G1 you're likely right, I amended my earlier post to say *might* boot up, I have seen examples of unsupported cpus booting up at slower speeds but many more where they don't boot at all.

    I had that same A7M266 (not the dual version) what a sucky mobo, tho some people had good luck volt modding them. AMD chipset indeed. :rolleyes: Bought new with my 1400 TBird. Had it and ran it a long time, as secondary machine, finally pawned it off on my sister in law last month :bigsh*teatinggrin:
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