Originally posted by: LAMONTBURNS
Any chance this will work with 256 PC2100 ram? Planning on upgrading, but was curious if it will work until I do.
Thanks.
The short answer is unless your RAM can run at 333FSB
No it won't.
The long answer:
I am going to use mine with PC2100 but, I am going to run them at 133fsb (the Tiger MP will only run at 100 or 133FSB). normally that would mean that the barton would run at 1.47Ghz instead of 1.83. However if you can up the multiplier to 13X then you can get the rated speed at 133FSB. I am going to see If I can get MP 2800+ speeds at stock voltage using 15 or 16 * 133, that will get me the same performance as the a
$287.00 MP 2800+ 512K Barton Core that runs on a 266FSB @ 2.08Ghz.
There are 3 ways to change the multiplier you can
mod the cpu or the
pins or socket. The third way is to use an
Upgradeware XP-TMC (AMD Athlon XP/MP Total Multiplier Controller). The XP TMC allows you to use dip switches to mod the multiplier instead of modding the chip itself. I got a couple for
$29.95 each at strattoncomputer.com.
Here is a review at Tom's Hardware. according to Tom's you don't need these since you can just mod the CPU's and iin conclusion it is a wasted expense. I disagree, I have fried two $56.00 XP 1800's by blowing and painting bridges, so I think $60 to not have to mod the CPU's is cheap insurance.
I am hoping I can hit 2800 speeds on my Tiger MP at stock voltage, looks like I might be able to do it... according to the
User reviews at newegg Allot of people are getting XP 3200 speeds out of these at stock voltage.