266 mhz board 333 fsb processor?

[Tenor]

I have an Abit KX7-raid motherboard and its of the 266 mhz variety. I have read differing views on whether 266 motherboards will run the Barton processors with the 333 fsb and increased cache so I was hoping that maybe someone could clear up the confusion for me. The settings in the Bios have the correct multipliers for the 333 fsb so I would think the board should probably be able to handle the increase?

Any ideas?

[legionaire]

buy a new motherboard that supports 333 fsb like a soltek 1.

[Strawbs]

whilst you may be able to up the fsb to 333, you will experience problems if you can't lock the pci and agp buses to their relative speeds. I also recommend a new board.

[Xtreeme]

Also there is the issue of the bios. If it doesnt register the extra l2 cache I dont think it will even be used. So it'll be just a XP tbred now not a barton and be stable at 333fsb but your mobo prolly wont be. Ahh its a mess-just play it safe. If the mobo doesnt list it-or any bios revisions dont mention barton support. Get a new mobo. Can get a Nforce2 bare bones for under $100. now days and rev. 2 of the asus supports the 400mhz fsb bartons soon to be out. Might wanna keep that in mind.

[RamonGTP]

If the board has a 1/5 divider, then the AGP/PCI frequencies will default back to 66/33 once you change the FSB to 166... I have an EPoX 8k3a+ board that doesn't "officially" support the 166 fsb processors, but it will run them just fine because it has the correct dividers for the AGP and PCI buses.

[frostDA9]

This pic isn't mine...but it's of the KX7-333 variety.
The story isn't so much about hardware compatibility, as it is about ABIT's reluctance to release a BIOS revision for it for a couple reasons......