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From: Wes Newell
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 08:34

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On Tue, 27 May 2003 20:43:03 +0000, Wisdom seeker wrote:

> Hi all,
>     I'm trying to figure out what speeds of Athlon XP chips are supported
>     by
> the motherboard I have.
> I have a ECS L7VTA and it is now running a Athlon XP 1700+.  This didn't
> give me the performance boost
> I had hoped to achieve with the upgrade from the athlon Slot A 750MHz. 

Set the FSB jumper to 166Mhz.

> The board does support a
> 400Mhz FSB (that's the bus speed to memory, right?).

It supports a FSB of 100, 133, and 166Mhz via jumper on MB. Forget 400Mhz.
Those are bogus numbers. And the FSB and memory buses are 2 seperate buses
and can be ran at different speeds.

> For some reason this mb is not listed on AMD's
> web site but I've heard good things about it before I got it for this
> upgrade.  How much performance
> improvement would I expect from a memory upgrade - currently I have 512MB
> DDR2700 - though the
> FSB on the Athlon XP 1700+ is only 233mhz so it doesn't take advantage of
> the 2700 capabilities.

You don't need faster memory. The default multiplier of the 1700+ is 11.
Raising the FSB to 166 gives you a cpu speed of 11x166. You might have to
raise vcore to reach this speed depending on the core you have. There's 3
1700+ cores. Palomino, Tbred A, and Tbred B (the best).

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Subject: Re: AMD question
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