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I need your advice antp (I’m hoping you can help 
). I have a old (very old) HP Pavilion XT 936 tower machine that I’m tinkering with, it’s not really worth upgrading because of its age. I’m not hoping to make a screamer out of it; I just need the upgrading experience.
The PC shipped new in summer 2001 with a 1 GHz AMD Athlon (thunderbird) 200 MHz FSB processor. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=bph06583&tmp_task=prodinfoCa- tegory&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&site=null&key=null&product=59042
Hard to believe 128 MB of RAM was a lot back then ...
I have upgraded it to 512 MB of RAM (2x 256 MB 133 MHz DIMM SDRAM). Wanted to put 1 GB of RAM in it, but HP and other sources say the mobo can’t support a gigabyte of RAM. Oh well ...
Back to my question, SiSoftware Sandra Lite tells me the motherboard/chipset FSB frequency is 200 MHz (2x 100 MHz) but has a maximum frequency of 266 MHz (2x 133 MHz).
So if this is correct, does that mean the mobo/chipset can handle an Athlon (thunderbird) with a 266 MHz FSB?
The reason I ask, is it seems the faster (1.2, 1.33, and 1.4 GHz) AMD Athlon thunderbirds are hard to find with the 200 MHz FSB. I have run across a few thunderbirds with the 266 MHz FSB. I don’t want to get the 266 and then mobo/chipset can’t support it resulting in the processor being underclocked.
Any advice/input would be appreciated, thanks.
). I have a old (very old) HP Pavilion XT 936 tower machine that I’m tinkering with, it’s not really worth upgrading because of its age. I’m not hoping to make a screamer out of it; I just need the upgrading experience. The PC shipped new in summer 2001 with a 1 GHz AMD Athlon (thunderbird) 200 MHz FSB processor. http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=bph06583&tmp_task=prodinfoCa- tegory&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&site=null&key=null&product=59042
Hard to believe 128 MB of RAM was a lot back then ...
I have upgraded it to 512 MB of RAM (2x 256 MB 133 MHz DIMM SDRAM). Wanted to put 1 GB of RAM in it, but HP and other sources say the mobo can’t support a gigabyte of RAM. Oh well ... Back to my question, SiSoftware Sandra Lite tells me the motherboard/chipset FSB frequency is 200 MHz (2x 100 MHz) but has a maximum frequency of 266 MHz (2x 133 MHz).
So if this is correct, does that mean the mobo/chipset can handle an Athlon (thunderbird) with a 266 MHz FSB?
The reason I ask, is it seems the faster (1.2, 1.33, and 1.4 GHz) AMD Athlon thunderbirds are hard to find with the 200 MHz FSB. I have run across a few thunderbirds with the 266 MHz FSB. I don’t want to get the 266 and then mobo/chipset can’t support it resulting in the processor being underclocked.
Any advice/input would be appreciated, thanks.