Solve : Question about CPU FSB?

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Answer» The motherboard in my system is SY-P4VSA. The Chipset s VIA P4X266 and it supports 400MHZ FSB. I have an INTEL Pentium 4 1.8GHz 400MHz 256KB Socket 478 CPU installed now. I want to upgrade to a Pentium 4 800MHZ. I have read that even though my MOBO only supports 400MHZ that this processor will still work. Is this true? And in my reading I also read something about overclocking. Do I NEED to do this, and if so can someone give me some instructions on doing this? Thanks for your help. Quote P4VSA Only SUPPORT 400MHz front side bus (FSB) processors. http://www.soyo.com/content/FAQ/47/?o_id=17 As stated above it only supports 400mhz FSB processors, but if your MB allows for you to adjust the multiplier manuallly you could ramp up the multiplier by .5x and see if you can squeeze more power out of it. Be sure you have a good heatsink that can take the heat away so you dont cook it. Also, I'd replace that P4 1.8Ghz / 256k Cache / 400 Mhz CPU with a P4 2.0Ghz / 512k Cache/ 400Mhz CPU to get double the cache if you are going to want as much power as possible. Also from my experience, I have two 533Mhz FSB CPUS and they dont like to downclock on the FSB to work at 400Mhz. So I am in the hunt in another posting here for info on the max speed 400Mhz FSB CPU EVER made, so I can get teh most power from my eMachine motherboard. Good Luck... and if you can find a 2.0Ghz / 512k Cache/ 400Mhz, I'd get it for the double L2 Cache

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The motherboard in my system is SY-P4VSA. The Chipset s VIA P4X266 and it supports 400MHZ FSB. I have an INTEL Pentium 4 1.8GHz 400MHz 256KB Socket 478 CPU installed now.
I want to upgrade to a Pentium 4 800MHZ. I have read that even though my MOBO only supports 400MHZ that this processor will still work. Is this true? And in my reading I also read something about overclocking. Do I NEED to do this, and if so can someone give me some instructions on doing this? Thanks for your help. Quote

P4VSA
Only SUPPORT 400MHz front side bus (FSB) processors.

http://www.soyo.com/content/FAQ/47/?o_id=17

As stated above it only supports 400mhz FSB processors, but if your MB allows for you to adjust the multiplier manuallly you could ramp up the multiplier by .5x and see if you can squeeze more power out of it. Be sure you have a good heatsink that can take the heat away so you dont cook it.

Also, I'd replace that P4 1.8Ghz / 256k Cache / 400 Mhz CPU with a P4 2.0Ghz / 512k Cache/ 400Mhz CPU to get double the cache if you are going to want as much power as possible.

Also from my experience, I have two 533Mhz FSB CPUS and they dont like to downclock on the FSB to work at 400Mhz. So I am in the hunt in another posting here for info on the max speed 400Mhz FSB CPU EVER made, so I can get teh most power from my eMachine motherboard.

Good Luck... and if you can find a 2.0Ghz / 512k Cache/ 400Mhz, I'd get it for the double L2 Cache

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