Posts by bluelynx15

Spent the whole night messing around with five different CPUs just to see which one plays nice with this motherboard (it's a Matsonic MS8308 with a SiS 730 chipset). It originally came with a Pentium 4 because I only use this rig for browsing, so there wasn't much point in keeping it stock. I cycled through a T-bred 2400, a Duron 1800, a Sempron 2400—which wouldn't even boot, by the way—and finally landed on a Barton 2500. I ran it at the board's max frequency, which is 133 FSB, and the system identifies it as an Intel Pentium 4. However, if I drop the FSB down to 100, the chip runs at an effective 2400 MHz (24x100), and the board sees it as a Duron 2400, though it fails to recognize more than 64MB of L2 cache. The multiplier on the Barton is locked, but honestly, it stays cool as a cucumber and pulls benchmarks in Sandi comparable to a Barton 3000+. Check out the pic here:





Here are the Sandi benchmark results.




Now I’m thinking about throwing it into another board at home that uses a KT266 chipset with a 100 MHz FSB. I need to figure out if this quirk is a flaw in this specific motherboard or if it's just how the Barton behaves.