Reply 40 of 74, by Space Cowboy
You have the KT880 board or plan to look for one?
There is no faster and no better chipset for the Athlon XP, than the NF2 Ultra 400. And if you want to squeeze out the max of the socket A platform, NF2 is the way to go. With the proper hardware, you'll be able to hit 230-240 FSB(I've never seen a stable NF2 at 250FSB), and 2.8 - 3 Ghz for the CPU. (Barton Mobiles, or Semprons with the Barton core)
The real question is - why would you need it? If you check a few posts above - the real issue is the lack of SSE2. The CPU itself (especially when overclocked to 2.8-3Ghz), has enough raw computing power.