Nvidia says nforce2 good for 200mhz?

[sotti]

WTF?
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=IO_20030207_5991

so why doesn't 200fsb work on my board?

[golfer49]

Your maximum FSB on your board is not totally dependent on the motherboard, but on ALL of the components and how they electrically work together within your system, 200FSB is not guaranteed?

[Genius]

But when the PCI and AGP buses are locked, this shouldn't be a factor I'd think.

[Chris`I]

It will be the CPU that is stopping you. I eliminated everything out of my system other than the cpu and thats y i am stuck at 200 ATM

[wicktron]

VDD might be holding you back.

[sotti]

my agp is set to 66mhz, my pci is locked at 33mhz

my memory is xms3200 and will run 200mhz async.

the only thing that I could be an issue is my athlon and my nForce2 SPP chip.

My guess is it's the SPP chip, with a vdd mod I'd probably be golden, but v mods scare me.

[k1114]

My board does 180 stock, 195@1.78-1.79vdd, 199@1.89vdd

the nforce2 is NOT good for 200mhz, at least not all of them.

[Vlad Draculea]

the athlon dont have any problems whit high fsb, and to this date i havent seen a processor than cant handle a given fsb if all other things can, and athlons are curently working well over 200fsb in via boards, even my old duron700 will do 190fsb, it wont do more because 190*6 is too much, my 1700+ palomino aroia works at 200 fsb whithout any problem.

so i think that is just nvidia pr bull****.

[Saulous]

My 8rda went sync stock 1.6vdd 185fsb with two mem and with one mem 187fsb.
1.77vdd 193sync
1.85V 202sync
1.88V 205sync
1.94V 207sync

Zahlman and 8cm 5V cools the chipset and over 1.95vdd there's no use. Core A3 and mem (pc3500 HyperX). And many say A3 goes without mod 210->. Bull****! Mem can go async 450mhz 2-2-2-2 so that's not a problem. Hoping there's coming a new bios. Sandra, memtest and pifast are stable even 212fsb 1.94Vdd but 3DM is allways stable ~5fsb lower with same vdd...

[EPoX Tech]

Originally posted by sotti
WTF?
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=IO_20030207_5991

so why doesn't 200fsb work on my board?

No - NVidia quote somebody stating 200MHz

[sotti]

No - NVidia quote somebody stating 200MHz

Well this is just sooooooo misleading.

I wish there was something you could do about it ET.

I'm aware of the realities of the industry and how and why my board won't do 200mhz FSB.

But how many people are gonna see that PR see that nVidia clearly states at the top that the nForce2 is designed for 200mhz FSB and buy one thinking that it will just work.

It's issues like this that truly irk me.

[EPoX Tech]

But there is no such thing as a 200MHz host clock CPU - so why a need for a mainboard with 200MHz Host clock - do you see the picture from this angle ?

[sotti]

well this is what amd is saying right now about the the 400mhz bus.

As a result of customer feedback, AMD is currently evaluating the possibility of increasing the AMD Athlon XP processor to 400FSB.

also nvidia showed a nForce2 running a 200mhz FSB at comdex last november.


Intel(controlling both chipset and cpu) always introduced things synconously. BX 100mhz fsb, i820 133mhz fsb, ect...

But via released the KT333 processor before the was 333fsb chips. I beleive the KT400 was introduced before the 2700+ as well.

So while I understand what your saying, in the AMD world chipset manufacturers seem to often lead AMD.

[EPoX Tech]

I'll bow down to you and retreat. It's not worth arguing.

[sotti]

I'll bow down to you and retreat. It's not worth arguing.

Totally, especially when your on our side.

Anyway this kind of thing cheeses me off.

Epox has been 100% upfront about what the motherboards can and can't do out of the box, as has every other mobo manufacturer.

Then nVidia goes running their mouth about how great their chip is and how it will be relevant even when the bus hits 200mhz.

Kinda reminds me how they talked about there NV30.

Anyway,

Thank you for talking the time reply ET, I do truly appreciate your presence here.

Oh and BTW if it's info that can be shared how do you select the upper multipliers on a 8k3a+ w/ a tbred 2100+, I could really use 14 and 14.5

[Holst]

Sotti, the only way to get the higher multis will be to cut the fith L3 bridge.

[sotti]

2100+ start at 13x so their 5th L3 is cut from the factory.

If I wire trick(same as connecting the the last L3), I get the lower multipliers.

[Holst]

8k3a+ never fully unlocked, you might have to manually set the multiplyer by manipulating the bridges then.... thats not a nice thing to have to do.

[sotti]

totally, I hear reports that 15x works from the 8x multiplier.

Worse comes to worse, well drop the chip in my 8RDA+ find it's limits then chop up the l3's for my brothers 8K3A+

Frankly cutting L3's seems a little scary to me.