On 3 Jan 2005 12:24:56 -0800, amarton.TakeThisOut@gmail.com wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm running a pair of 2.4GHz Xeons in a X5DAE board quite happily. I
>can get my hands on a pair of used 3.2GHz (800MHz FSB, 1MB L2) for next
>to nothing - I wonder if it's worth it though.
>
>I should be able to plug the CPUs in, but if the new ones are locked to
>a 4x multiplier then running them at 4x533 (533 is the most the X5DAE
>can do) will only give me ~2.1GHz, and I might be worse off than I am
>right now with the 4.5x533 pair. Granted, I'll have double the L2 cache
>but that's not relevant in all usage scenarios.
>
>So the question is: do you know if the X5DAE and 800 FSB Xeons will
>play nice and allow me to select 6x533?
>
>-Marton
I doubt you'll even get an X5DA8/E board to successfully power-up, never mind
get through POST, with an 800mhz FSB Xeon plugged in.
While the 400mhz and 533mhz Xeons operated with a single voltage design, the
800mhz Xeons require both a VCC and a VTT supply to function....
/daytripper<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
>> Stay informed about: X5DAE & 800MHz? 
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