msi kt3ultra and barton xp2500+ ?

[Mephistophelos]

I've searched half the www to get an answer to the question whether it is possible to make a barton2500 spin on an msikt3ultra mobo. Some tell me that this is possbile because when putting the fsb on 166 mhz or higher a pci divider kicks in. Can someone tell me with certainty whether this is true? I am planning to buy one together with a Vantec VA4-C7040 cooler (seems to be really good)

Targetsystem

msi kt3ultra
Barton XP 2500+
Vantec VA4-C7040 cooler
Radeon 8500 (hercules 8500le at 250/240 with Unreal2 otherwise crash, 280/254 in other applications)
Maxtor 40Gb/7200rpm (+20gig soon)
100mbit networkje athome, incl router
current 3dmark2001se score 95003dmarks.

[BipolarBill]

Only the Ultra2 and KT3V support the Barton. Sorry.

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/cpu_support/cpu/spt_cpu_detail.php?UID=11&NAME=MS-6380E

[Mephistophelos]

thanks, decided to not spend too much money and be happy with a 2400+ and new Titan cooler... will clock it to 2600+. That is ok for now and since I emigrated to live with my girlfriend I will be a bit cautious with money. In half a year or so I will take another look at the market and buy a new mobo/cpu/gfxcard.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

The 2400 is probably the better bet anyhows, the 512kb cache of the Bartons dont make a great deal of difference and its a slightly unpredictable overclocker, with the 2400+ you can prolly squueze much moreout of it in terms of performance than you would a 2500+

--Jakk:t