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Will 800fsb work in BH7?

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I've been searching online for this answer and I have yet to find an answer. www.abit-usa.com says FSB 800 OC. That doesn't help alot. So does anyone here run a 800fsb cpu in there BH7?



thanks
-bill
 
It will work, but your overclocking will be limited to the mainboard chipset. I tried 800mhz cpu on It7-Max2 and Bh7 boards and the max i usually hit is around 215mhz FSB on intel 845PE chipset boards.
 
AS the above poster said, it'll work but at a much less optimal speed. Try getting a 865/875 board.
 
I tried an 800FSB proc and it wouldn't even post at 533FSB or at all in an IT7!
 
thanks guys....


so there is no point


just upgrade to a MOBO chipset that support 800fsb.
 
You can try, but for the price of the 865PE boards, I don't consider it worth the effort and performance cap. Hell, you can get Abit's IS7-E for about $80 at Newegg.
 
It should work, but you will be very limited on overclocking. SO you would need to buy a high end 800FSB CPU like at least a 3.0 to 3.2 or 3.4. But with the added cost of the highend CPU. You might as well buy a cheap CPU and new mobo.

Ex:
3.2C 800FSB = $289.00 (with current set up- BH-7)

or

2.8C 800FSB = $172.00
Abit IS-7 ==== $97.00 --- (plus you can use dual channel DDR!!!)
total -------------$269.00

Both will probably OC to 3.4Ghz+
You will need a 3.2 @ 215FSB in the BH-7 to hit 3.44Ghz
where the 2.8C in the IS-7 will probably hit 3.5Ghz and you get all of the extra bandwidth from dual channel DDR.

You've already got good enough ram, though you will probably need to use the 3:2 ratio if you can OC high.
 
If you wanna try it get a 2.4C. If it doesn't work you could upgrade your board afterwards. But if you don't plan on upgrading the board just for a cpu, then don't chance it.

Did you search google?
 
I tried my old 2.4C in my BH7 (sold a while back) while waiting for an RMA on a IC7 (also sold a while back). It defaulted to a 133FSB. I upped it to 200 and ran prime95. It worked fine. As for overclocking, it would only hit about 220. This is the same cpu in my current rig. So, it wasn't the cpu holding it back.

I would recommend going with the 2.8C and new mobo for a few reasons: more features, serial RAID, can take advantage of ~1000Mhz FSB when overclocking a 2.8C, dual channel memory for more bandwith, and possibly better stability that try to overclock a 3.2 on a BH7.
 
i guess a cheaper 800fsb with new mobo is a better option.

thanks for all the inputs.
 
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