multiplier question

[sthreallyobscure]

What happens if you install a cpu with a higher mulitplier than the motherboard officially supports?
It's set by the cpu right....so presumably it will either boot at the expected speed or not at all.

Has anyone had any experience with recent P4 gigabyte boards like the ga8 series?

cheers

 

[Nessal]

I'm thinking that it would not boot at all....

 

[skatertech]

It might boot, but at the highest speed the motherboard supports. The processor wouldn't be running at it's rated speed.