Does anyone know of a motherboard which supports an AMD AthlonXP 'Barton' 400MHz FSB and has a universal AGP slot?
I've noticed that with an AthlonXP 2000+ you get about the same performance as with a 2.261GHz Pentium 4 in 3DMark 2001SE 330.
So with an AthlonXP 3200+ with a 400MHz FSB the performance should go through the roof :D
ASUS P4S533 | Intel Pentium 4 2,261GHz | 512MB Samsung PC2700 DDR-SDRAM | Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
i believe you need to look at a kt333 board... or a ecs k7s5a... :)
I don't think the KT333 has a 400MHz FSB...but yeah, like qrazi said, I think that's the most/highest motherboard you'll get with a universal AGP slot...
sure it has a 400mhz FSB... :) if you get an overclock friendly one...
kt333 max pci divider is 1/5, so when you select 400mhz fsb, your agp and pci speeds will be 40 and 80.... that is too much i think...
well I also use a VIA KT333 base mobo, it's an ASUS A7V333-RAID Rev 1.04 did a nice Bios update with Bios 1017 and it is upgradeble to AMD AthlonXP 3000+ Barton with 512KB L2. :D It is possible that you can put a Barton 3200+ of course it will work only it's FSB will automaticly set to the older 333Mhz FSB. It's a well known feature.
My sys specs now are:
AMD AthlonXP 2700+ Thoroughbred-B [2167Mhz, 256KB L2].
ASUS A7V333-RAID
1x 512MB PC-2700 Samsung Original
[:o)]3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP 64MB[:o)]
SB Live! 1024
Intel Pro 100/S Desktop Adapter
Win98SE Fully updated
DirectX 9.0b
and yeah it runs fine, especially UT 2003 and of course Max Payne2 :D :D
here is my score with 3Dmark 2001 SE Build 330 at reso: 640x480x16
3542. it is believed to be the highest 640x480x16 Voodoo5 score yet for Win98SE systems and the 3rd and 4th place in list for all OS'es.
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=7219810
and here is my 1024x768x32 score everything at defaults.:
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=7219705
the VIA KT333 isn't that bad at all really.:)
May The Force Be With You...Always.
Ben Kenobi.
it really is to bad those sis motherboards dont have a universal agp slot, the chipset does support it... would be nice to have a 50euro motherboard which outperforms a kt400 and comes close to a nforce2... :)
hey Kenobi..i also have the asus a7v333 raid but i have the revision 1.02..can i install your bios and have the support for the amd 3000+? if yes, can you please link me the exact place where to find the bios 1017?
i only found the 1004 (strangely i have installed the 1015..)
i don't understand.. :(