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I'm testing a Gigabyte 7IXE4 mobo, AMD 751 Irongate North Bridge, 756 Viper South Bridge. It's got 2 ISA slots - useful retro board. It runs at 100 FSB (200 DDR). You can overclock it up to a maximum of 115 FSB. Here is its support page. On it, there's a CPU support list, and it suggests that the maximum processor the board can support is an AthlonXP 1500+ Palomino, 18u. (100 FSB / 200 DDR, real clock speed 1300 MHz.) However, this chip doesn't overclock too well, and they are also rare.
Out of curiosity, I tried a Palomino 2000+ CPU (133 FSB) in this board, and it worked! And it overclocks to 115 FSB. Naturally, this chip doesn't run at its native 133 FSB (266 DDR) speed on this board. Instead, it runs at 100 FSB. It's still a better choice than the 100 FSB 1500+ Palomino mentioned earlier, because it performs slightly better and it overclocks better too.
I want to try a Palomino 2100+ in this board. I notice that the Palomino 2000+ that works in this board is green, but on ebay they are sold as either green or brown. Does the colour of these chips make any difference? Thanks a lot for any comments. 😀
