i have a question about the FSB speeds on the pentium 4 ...
i am selling my AMd xp2000+ based system and i got an intel brand D845WN off a buddy for 25 bucks .lol good deal huh anyways my question is as follows....
the intel website says this board only supports a 400 mhz FSB...so i have two questions
1. could a bios update possibly increase the supported FSB speed to 533mhz or even 800 mhz?
2. if i was to purchase a CPU with a higher FSB and just run it only at 400mhz would that work.. and what kind of performance hit would i take ?
3. if i was to purchase a board supporting a 800 fsb(specifically the MSI Neo), and put a chip only supporting a 400 mhz fsb would the board still operate well?(of course not to its full capacity i know this)or would this make the new board virtually a waste?
i am selling my AMd xp2000+ based system and i got an intel brand D845WN off a buddy for 25 bucks .lol good deal huh anyways my question is as follows....
the intel website says this board only supports a 400 mhz FSB...so i have two questions
1. could a bios update possibly increase the supported FSB speed to 533mhz or even 800 mhz?
2. if i was to purchase a CPU with a higher FSB and just run it only at 400mhz would that work.. and what kind of performance hit would i take ?
3. if i was to purchase a board supporting a 800 fsb(specifically the MSI Neo), and put a chip only supporting a 400 mhz fsb would the board still operate well?(of course not to its full capacity i know this)or would this make the new board virtually a waste?