Hi! I want to buy a new board and cpu and ram. i want a nforce2 so that i can lock pci/agp so it wont be oc'd. I was thinking of asus a7n8x with xp2500 barton and 512 400mhz ram. but i want to oc the cpu to about 11*200 or so. will the mobo stop the oc since it is 333 mhz and i set the cpu to 400? My real question is: will the mobo stop me from getting me to about 400 mhz? is the 2500 barton unlocked on a7n8x? and will i get to the speed of a xp3200?

Hi! new question: is the deluxe version worth the extra bucks? it has two more pci on the pictures i have seen... i have read many posts where people have exactly that mobo and have oc'd to xp3200.. thanks for any help!

forgot to mention the mobo names... (silly me) Asus A7N8X Deluxe/GD nForce2 Ultra400/MCP-T,Dual LAN,Firewire Asus A7N8X-VM nForce2IGP/MCP, VGA, m-ATX, USB2.0, LAN Asus A7N8X-X hovedkort for Socket A nForce2 400/MCP, ATX,ATA133,USB2.0,LAN wich is the better ? was thinking of a7n8x-x looks good..

i dont know if this is helping you or not but I'm running my PC with ASUS A7N8X(non delux or anything) with Athron XP2500+ barton. i overclocked it up to 3200+(it shows up as Athron XP3200+) by 200 X 11 = 2200(2.2Ghz) with Vcore 1.65v, and is working great. so you can overclock 2500barton up to 3200 with ASUS A7N8X with no problems. merubin