Val Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 I'm wanting to upgrade my cpu, I found a nice athlon xp 2800 at a nice price, but... a buddy of mine told me that I shouldn't put anything over a 2500 in socket A boards. is there any know issues with xp 2600s and up? Also I notice that many of you are running XP mobils in your systems, do I have to change any setting if I drop a xp mobile in my NF II infinity? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bleek Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 no problem using that 2800+ .....and doesnt need to be mobile...im using a barton Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelballzz Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 hi i used also a 3200....and my precious 2600 mobile good luck on that Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Code Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 If u use a mobile XP processor, I recomend that u flash 6/19 bios. Also u have to set the FSB, multiplyer and Vcore in the bios to get the maximun out of ur cpu, as the bios will default to low settings for a mobile. Bruce Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emil Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 Moving from a non-overclocked 1800+ to a 2800+ will give satisfactory improvements in most parameters. What your friend probably meant was that an overclocked 1800+ which may do 2.2-2.4 ghz will not be of much difference to overclocked 2500+ which may do 2.3-2.6 ghz. Or for that matter other higher rated xps will top off at 2.4 to 2.6 ghz. Some mild differences at the most. If you want to aqueeze the most out of your Infinity, get a mobile 2500 or 2600 if there are still any available and apply the tweaks which you can easily search in many threads here. Good luck !! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 Thanks for taking the time to responde to a novice, it was helpful Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_bowtie Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 you may have to upgrade the bios to get it to properly recognize the 2800....? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
medianOCer Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 Is that 1800+ you have an unlocked Thoroughbred-B CPU? If it is, I'd stick with that and OC it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_bowtie Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 true......I was gona try that myself...I got a 1800 in on trade....but is was a 1800-a Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
medianOCer Posted January 6, 2006 Posted January 6, 2006 Hear you on the Tbred-A. I've seen a couple of posts where some had Tbred-As and were able to get a decent OC out of them, but that might depend on the CPUs and maybe how close to the Tbred-B revision(s)/silicon they were. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val Posted January 7, 2006 Posted January 7, 2006 Is that 1800+ you have an unlocked Thoroughbred-B CPU?If it is, I'd stick with that and OC it. I know its a tghorobread but I bought it OEM so don't have much info on it. how would I go about figuring out if its unlocked? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
medianOCer Posted January 7, 2006 Posted January 7, 2006 Are you able to manually change the multiplier on the CPU itself, and through the BIOS? Also, if your new to using these boards and don't have either a BIOS Savior and/or an extra BIOS chip, then you ought to consider getting either of those or both. That way if you run into BIOS corruption or a no boot situation, you can recover from that taking place. It would probably be a good idea to look into that before changing many BIOS options and etc. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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