In need of an adivce

[mos74g]

after doing some research, i finally decided to try overclocking, and i'm in the process of building the system. i have iwill kk266 motherboard, two Atlas Precision 256MB ram, and voodoo5. i will buy 1.0 ghz t-bird . however, i can't decide wether i should get the one with 200 fsb or 266 fsb. i would appricate it if anyone can give me some advice on which one i should buy.

[Jon]

Doesn't really matter as their both basically the same chip with different multipliers set to run at different bus speeds.

I would go with the 266 chips since they are actually cheaper.

[Superman53142]

Yes, the 266 is cheaper and your motherboard supports 266 FSB, so right out of the box the 266 will perform better than the 200 would

[MiteyJoe]

Originally posted by mos74g
after doing some research, i finally decided to try overclocking, and i'm in the process of building the system. i have iwill kk266 motherboard, two Atlas Precision 256MB ram, and voodoo5. i will buy 1.0 ghz t-bird . however, i can't decide wether i should get the one with 200 fsb or 266 fsb. i would appricate it if anyone can give me some advice on which one i should buy.


that depends..

its true that the 266 vers will have a performance edge out of the box over the 200.. but with the 200, you will be able to overclock to a higher core speed simply by going to 133FSB.. that way your PCI and AGP still stays within spec... but your core MHZ will increase. thats a + but the - is that the 200 chip is less likely to run at the higher FSB values. (ie 140+).

the 266 on the other hand.. with that one, you cant over clock it too easily, and it is less likely to go for a higher core speed value, but it is more likely that you will be able to bump up the FSB into the 140+ area.

provided your cards *cough*ethernet*cough* can handle that FSB. :D

-Joe-