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13th October, 2001, 04:13 AM
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| EP-8KHA+, AMD SocketA CPUs, and multipliers. I have an EP-8KHA+ en route, and I am concerned about the long term usefulness of the product. Officially the board supports a 15x multiplier, but what happens when AMD cpu's exceed 2GHz? Either higher multipliers or higher system clocks will be needed. The board does offer FSBs in the 134-199 range, though these bus speeds are not guaranteed to be achievable with any stability. How exactly is it that SocketA multipliers are set? Will BIOS updates allow higher multipliers? I don't think I am the only person concerned about this, so any information on the topic that you may have to offer would be greatly appreciated. Currently I've got a funky feeling in my gut that says AMD will shaft us by implementing a 166MHz(333 in DDR talk) front side bus and a lower I/O voltage on the .13m parts to come.
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13th October, 2001, 06:43 AM
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| It will be interesting to see if the DDR 333 (2700) spec does hit us with the dot one three parts, however rest assured that the FID system within Palamino will allow for multipliers greater than 15 to force in the same way that Intel chips force multipliers above those in the BIOS. It would not take too much effort to create greater multipliers in BIOS either.
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13th October, 2001, 07:43 PM
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| I'm glad to hear that. I'm really tempted to buy this board. All my concerns have been answered and I see that this board is sweet. Now if I only had a little more money 
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14th October, 2001, 07:03 AM
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| Please look at page 66 of the following document : http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont...docs/24309.pdf
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14th October, 2001, 08:02 PM
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| So multipliers are set via "serial initialization packet"?
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