KK266 CPU question

[Doug Lewis]

I have a KK266 m/b with an Athlon 1.4GHz Thunderbird. In the manual and on
their website, IWill says that it can take CPU speeds "from 600MHz up to
1.2GHz and higher".

It's that "higher" that I have a question on. Why would they say "up to
1.2GHz" when it can handle "higher". And the big question is... How much
higher???

I would like to increase the CPU speed, but don't know if it would make any
difference.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

[Nikolaos Tampakis]

Post by Doug Lewis
I have a KK266 m/b with an Athlon 1.4GHz Thunderbird. In the manual and on
their website, IWill says that it can take CPU speeds "from 600MHz up to
1.2GHz and higher".
It's that "higher" that I have a question on. Why would they say "up to
1.2GHz" when it can handle "higher". And the big question is... How much
higher???
I would like to increase the CPU speed, but don't know if it would make any
difference.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.

It may mean that when the manual went to print only Athlons up to 1,2
GHz had been released, so they couldn't write about CPUs that weren't in
the market, but the engineers had a good clue that the board could
support higher current draws from the CPU. In that context, the
statement would more accurately read "from 600 MHz up to 1.2 GHz and
higher frequency CPUs using existing cores". So your 1,4 GHz thunderbird
is more or less covered by that statement, but Palominos or
Thoroughbreds are not and you should be looking for specific information
regarding PCB and BIOS revisions regarding support for these.
Adding BIOS support for newer CPUs is actually relatively easy and it's
something you can probably do yourself, but you'll need to verify that
the motherboard can also electrically properly support newer cores as well.
And yes, the extra CPU speed will definitely make some difference, why
shouldn't it? Assuming you're going to run some application which takes
advantage of the extra juice of course. For day to day tasks your 1,4
Ghz thunderbird is actually superfluous.

Regards
Nikos

[Kaptain Krunch]

Throughbreds, are not included as the only core that the KK266 can handle is
the Palominos.

KK

Post by Nikolaos Tampakis

Post by Doug Lewis
I have a KK266 m/b with an Athlon 1.4GHz Thunderbird. In the manual and on
their website, IWill says that it can take CPU speeds "from 600MHz up to
1.2GHz and higher".
It's that "higher" that I have a question on. Why would they say "up to
1.2GHz" when it can handle "higher". And the big question is... How much
higher???
I would like to increase the CPU speed, but don't know if it would make any
difference.
Can anyone help?
Thanks.

It may mean that when the manual went to print only Athlons up to 1,2
GHz had been released, so they couldn't write about CPUs that weren't in
the market, but the engineers had a good clue that the board could
support higher current draws from the CPU. In that context, the
statement would more accurately read "from 600 MHz up to 1.2 GHz and
higher frequency CPUs using existing cores". So your 1,4 GHz thunderbird
is more or less covered by that statement, but Palominos or
Thoroughbreds are not and you should be looking for specific information
regarding PCB and BIOS revisions regarding support for these.
Adding BIOS support for newer CPUs is actually relatively easy and it's
something you can probably do yourself, but you'll need to verify that
the motherboard can also electrically properly support newer cores as well.
And yes, the extra CPU speed will definitely make some difference, why
shouldn't it? Assuming you're going to run some application which takes
advantage of the extra juice of course. For day to day tasks your 1,4
Ghz thunderbird is actually superfluous.
Regards
Nikos