Socket A for 533fsb?

i was wondering if any mobo manufacturers for Socket A can reach 533(although i know athlons might not be able to do it) i know alot can do over 400, my a7n8x can do up to 450 as far as i know

my reason for asking is i plan to get a barton 3200, my reason, well, it starts off at 400fsb, and 2.2gig, and that's w/ a 1.650 vcore(imagine the potential)

so i was thinking, hey, my 2700 started w/ 333, and i "can do" 450, and some of you w/ 1700+'s do the same, and they start w/ what 200, 266?

anyway, i'm sure you all get my point, i'd love to get a 3200+barton and crank the $417 out of it, but i want a board that can handle it as well.

thanx

I think the limitation on FSB is only dependent on the board and memory, not the cpu. Since there is now DDR500 memory out there, I think the current crop of athlon motherboards are limiting you to around 230-240FSB (460-480 effective).

well, someone should start screaming at the board makers to start putting out more dangit

yeh it would be good if bords could go that high but if it was to have any advantage at all you would still need memory that goes that high which we dont have yet maybe when ddr-II comes out they will bring out a new type of chipset that can handle more but its unlikely as by then athlon 64 will be out and i would guess they would put more effort into the new bords than the out of date socket A

so, the new p4's have 800 fsb, do the boards those go on run at 800mhz?

The p4's are quad pumped rather than double pumped like the Athlons. So both of the newest AMD and Intel chips run at 200fsb, it's just that AMD's is an "effective" 400fsb and Intel's is an "effective" 800fsb.

hmmm, ok, can u dim that down a bit and explain "double pumped" and "quad pumped" please

Each clock cycly, a double pumped bus transmits twice.
On a quad pumped bus, four transmissions are made per clock cycle.

200x4 intel speak for 800mhz fsb
200x2 AMD speak for 400mhz fsb

Molester said:

hmmm, ok, can u dim that down a bit and explain "double pumped" and "quad pumped" please

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