How fast will the EV6/200 Mhz DDR bus go?

[Dputiger]

I'm wondering how many people on the existing ABIT-KT-7 RAID boards /ASUS A7V will be able to upgrade and take advantage of the newer 133 Mhz chips coming out.

What's the highest FSB speed that can be gotten out of these boards reasonably? Does putting better cooling on the Northbridge help?

[drn]

I have built many of them and the most i can get out of it is 111 mfz fsb but i think that is the cpu not the mobo we will have to wait and see once the 266 cpu's hit the market to check this out

[Dputiger]

Hmmm. I built a machine for a friend around the ABIT KT-7 RAID. Using that board I got the FSB up to 118. So far, that's my best.

[OPPAINTER]

On my Abit KT7 Raid the highest Ive gone was 114, But I didnt do any ajusting to my memory settings they were all max out. I think after toneing down the Memory settings to a minamal I would probbably be able to go higher in FSB. I think I'll check it out right now. I'll be back.

[OPPAINTER]

After messing around for 10 minutes I got up to 117. I dont think think the problem at 118 was the memory because I turned every thing down to minimal on it. Probably my video, modem, or soundcard, that couldn't handle it. I dont no, but I got it to 117.

[Peter M]

We won't know for sure until we have an actual 133 MHz bus CPU - one just can't determine the limiting factor.

Besides, VIA bringing out an upgraded KT133A north bridge for 133 MHz CPU bus support is not a good sign for owners of older mainboards. Then again, ECS and PC-Chips claim their boards were designed to work at 133 MHz, but they wouldn't promise it because they had no processors to test it. Epox 8KTA is in a similar situation - it has 133 MHz jumpers, but at the time this was engineered, noone knew if they'd work come the time.

Regards, Peter