Help with mobo/900 Duron

[habba]

Not sure If I blundered. I bought a 900 duron cause it was cheap. $65 w/ heatsink and fan. Now when I look at mobo's they say 800-850 duron. Is this a problem? Does it matter? Any suggestions?

habba

[JayPeg]

Check the mobo maker's website for a BIOS upgrade or jumper setting for the new CPUs.

What MoBo did you get?

[bobcat]

What MB?

The MB maker might have more up to date documentation as to whether the MB can support it or not. I have bought various MB that say they only support a range, but, they actually can run a higher CPU than what the initial documentation states.

You could see if there is a new BIOS to flash it.

[habba]

Its a 900 duron cpu.
thanks

[Surrea1]

Nononono, they are asking what Motherboard-> what brand of motherboard, asus, gigabyte, iwill, etc...

[habba]

Amptronhttp://www.amptron.com/html/K7VZA.html

sorry about that, I think I found something reasonably cheap. Thinking of getting the board w/ ATX midtower 400w ps shipped for $125. If you know of a better deal, let me know. The board is $56. Their porking me on the s+h= $34

habba

[bobcat]

Their documentation is scary. The board is for an Athlon/Duron, but the download docs talk about INTEL.

Most likely the Duron 900 was not out when this board was created. I think it will run this CPU for the following reason. The FSB is 100mhz. To run the Athlon 1.2g would mean it has a multiplier of 12. So, 12 x 100 = 1.2. The 900 would have a multiplier of 9 which is definitly within the multiplier spec.

[kenyg]

I've got a cheep pc chips board, was only rated to 800mhz, but it runs my 900tbird just fine.


Ken

[habba]

thanks for the help, all set