mobo..cpu compatability

[fordtruckman_05]

Hey, i just bought a giga-byte mobo (GA-K8NF-9). And a AMD Athlon 64 3800 venice 2.4ghz cpu...how do i know that the fsb of the cpu will match up with the mobo. The mobo.. says FSB 800MHz Hyper Transport (1600MT/s) ....but how do i find the fsb on the proccesor? Would it be HT 2000MHz? This is my first comuter build as you can probably tell. Thanks dennis

[Will.Spencer]

Originally Posted by fordtruckman_05

Hey, i just bought a giga-byte mobo (GA-K8NF-9). And a AMD Athlon 64 3800 venice 2.4ghz cpu...how do i know that the fsb of the cpu will match up with the mobo. The mobo.. says FSB 800MHz Hyper Transport (1600MT/s) ....but how do i find the fsb on the proccesor? Would it be HT 2000MHz? This is my first comuter build as you can probably tell.

The Gigabyte GA-K8NF9 lists its supported AMD Athlon 64 Venice CPU's as:

• AMD Athlon 64 4000+(E6,Venice,90nm,1M)
• AMD Athlon 64 3700+(E6,Venice,90nm,1M)
• AMD Athlon 64 3200+(E4,Venice,90nm,512KB)
• AMD Athlon 64 3800+(E3,E6,Venice,90nm,512KB)
• AMD Athlon 64 3500+(E3&E4&E6,Venice,90nm,512KB)
• AMD Athlon 64 3200+(E3&E6,Venice,90nm,512KB)
• AMD Athlon 64 3000+(E3&E6,Venice,90nm,512KB)

This list is good for all four models of the GA-K8NF9, regular and Ultra, v1.x and v2.x.

All of them list the supported FSB (Front Side Bus) as 2000.

Likewise, AMD lists 2000Mhz as the only supported system bus speed for the AMD Athlon 64 3800+ CPU running at 2.4Ghz.

[fordtruckman_05]

cool...so it looks like i am good with my setup. By the way this site is great ive learned so much just in one day..thanks again dennis