Originally Posted by spookedjunglist your motherboard doesnt support 800mhz FSB so im guessing its defaulting to 100 x 15 which is 1.5ghz your going to need a new mobo... or a new proc... your mobo supports prescotts with the A letter not E E prescotts are all 800mhz fsb and A are all 400mhz by the way if your looking for a good mobo dont get the abit IS7, its had problems with prescotts also... Sorry bout the problem |
Originally Posted by spookedjunglist E prescotts are all 800mhz fsb and A are all 400mhz |
Originally Posted by Lando95 The "A" Prescotts are 533 fsb ![]() And you could always try to overclock the board to 200fsb. |
Originally Posted by ShawnMcGrail BUT, wouldn't that just totally kill the motherboard by having that much power moving through the lines (mabobys in the PCB for transporting data) that are only able to handle 533mhz? |
Originally Posted by Lando95 Yeah, it probably would kill it. But it would be fun trying anyway! ![]() |
Originally Posted by ShawnMcGrail I bet if you actually did that though, you would probably see visible scaring of the mobo's pipelines.. I saw that on a review of a P4 3.4EE running on a crap motherboard. They had it running a 1000mhz FSB when the mobo was only made for 533mhz. When they pulled it out, the motherboard had burn marks on the pipelines, and the northbridge was fried, lol. |