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Lupine · 23-11-2004, 01:50 PM

This is probably going to sound dumb, but I've been all over CPU sites and can't figure it out. When a company lists the FSB MHz is that the base figure you start with or is that the max you can over clock it to? I'm trying to figure it out because I want to get an inexpensive upgrade (AMD Athlon XP 2400) to my current CPU (AMD Athlon XP 1200) and my motherboard supports up to 266MHz FSB. I don't want to mess with trying to over clock a CPU up to 266MHz and would rather just get the best CPU my motherboard can support. The easiest thing to do would be to upgrade the motherboard, but then I'd also have to buy DDR ram in addition to a motherboard and CPU. I know, I know, I'm a cheap bastard, but all I really want to do is upgrade my CPU. Any suggestions? Thanks.

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Lupine Geek Trainee Join Date: Nov 2004 Age: 36 Male Posts: 6 Status: Offline My Computer	Novice question about CPUs and FSB This is probably going to sound dumb, but I've been all over CPU sites and can't figure it out. When a company lists the FSB MHz is that the base figure you start with or is that the max you can over clock it to? I'm trying to figure it out because I want to get an inexpensive upgrade (AMD Athlon XP 2400) to my current CPU (AMD Athlon XP 1200) and my motherboard supports up to 266MHz FSB. I don't want to mess with trying to over clock a CPU up to 266MHz and would rather just get the best CPU my motherboard can support. The easiest thing to do would be to upgrade the motherboard, but then I'd also have to buy DDR ram in addition to a motherboard and CPU. I know, I know, I'm a cheap bastard, but all I really want to do is upgrade my CPU. Any suggestions? Thanks.