LIKE WE SAID YESTERDAY, the 8K9A2+ mobo has an unlocked multiplayer for all Thoroughbred CPUs. As we got a precious 2700+ from AMD we decided to give it a try and to see whether this processor actually works with using a front side bus speed of 400MHz. Of course, it was impossible to have this CPU working at 200 x 13.5 since this core already meets its limitations with 2800+ but we were able to run at a 10 x 200 MHZ FSB producing 2000 MHz from this CPU.
Windows XP recognised this processor as an Athlon 2400+ but in memory related benchmarks, we got a 600 MB/s increase outscoring even Dual Xeon chipset. We were able to get more than 3000 MB/s with 200 MHZ FSB with obvious benefits.
So whenever AMD introduce its new parts running at 400 MHz both VIA and Nvidia will be ready. As we learned before, Barton 400 MHz FSB CPUs could easily be introduced with FSB 400 sooner or later, and you can expect a 15 to 20 per cent increase in performance giving the AMD CPU one last big kick to compete with a Hyperthreading P4 at 3.06 GHz. The boards are ready, we reckon it"s all about AMD now