Hi there,
I'm the proud owner of an Athlon XP 2200+, which, sadly -- uses a high multiplier. My goal is to reach a 200MHz (400MHz DDR) front side bus without modding the CPU in any way, and without overclocking the CPU itself. To reach this FSB will require a 9x multiplier, which I'm told is not possible with this chip as only 13x and higher multipliers are available. I'm also told that motherboards exist that can unlock this CPU all the way down to 5.5x or so. That's what I'm looking for today and I'm hoping you can give me your kind advice as to what I should buy.
These are characteristics I'm looking for. A bit of wiggle room is tolerable:
1) Passively cooled northbridge
2) around $100 or so, even less is better
3) Will unlock an old-school Athlon XP 2200+ below 12.5/13x.
I have one stick of Samsung PC3200 DDR SDRAM, the DTL variety.
Any advice you can give me is very very welcome. Thank you.
I'm the proud owner of an Athlon XP 2200+, which, sadly -- uses a high multiplier. My goal is to reach a 200MHz (400MHz DDR) front side bus without modding the CPU in any way, and without overclocking the CPU itself. To reach this FSB will require a 9x multiplier, which I'm told is not possible with this chip as only 13x and higher multipliers are available. I'm also told that motherboards exist that can unlock this CPU all the way down to 5.5x or so. That's what I'm looking for today and I'm hoping you can give me your kind advice as to what I should buy.
These are characteristics I'm looking for. A bit of wiggle room is tolerable:
1) Passively cooled northbridge
2) around $100 or so, even less is better
3) Will unlock an old-school Athlon XP 2200+ below 12.5/13x.
I have one stick of Samsung PC3200 DDR SDRAM, the DTL variety.
Any advice you can give me is very very welcome. Thank you.