ok so i just bought all this great stuff, i don't have it at the moment its in the process of being shipped but i was reading the online manuel (i downloaded it) and it says their's a jumper to set the FSB of the processor 100/133/166/200 with the motherboard i have now i don't have to set a jumper for the FSB so my questions is could i make my 2500+XP barton run at 200mhz fsb? which would clock it to if it were a 400mhzfSB which would be awesome cuz this board supports 400mhz fsb but anyways i was just wondering any advice would be helpful THANKS IN ADVANCE Daniel

btw the ram i bought is xms corsair low latency pc3200 ddr400 also the specs on this board are out of this world sorry for the long post lol i'm just excited and can't wait to get it all!!! thanks in advance Daniel

unless your VERY lucky i doubt it would post at 200 * default multiplier. if that board allows the multiplier to be lowered you've got a better chance of reaching that speed. Most XP2500 bartons i see on overclocking sites will post at 11 * 200. good luck with it all.

Hi Daniel You might be able to do it, I pushed my XP 2400+ to 200FSB with a multiplier of 10, ran for a while and I got some really good scores, but sadly it was very unstable. However, I didn't modify my voltages in any way, so a few people were amazed I even got it to POST. Just be careful, you don't want to BBQ your new system.

put if i tried to run the processor at 400mhz fsb it wouldn't hurt it would it? i eman the worse than can happen is it will not post and ya i got enough cooling no worries on that

By all means try it, but don't blame anyone but yourself if you do turn it into an expensive and rather charred paper weight. If you do try it, make sure you drop your multiplier first. Looking at the mobo's model number I would say that it is an nForce2 board, just a word or warning, make sure your RAM timings are spot on, otherwise you will be forever resetting your CMOS.

No, do not try to go from default settings straight to fsb200. As said above, lower the multiplier before setting the fsb to 200. The main oc'ing risk comes from not doing things an inch at a time.