Hi there,
I've been happily running a Sempron SocA 2500 on the Asrock K7VT4A PRO MoBo for over a year. Recently I've been poking around to see a bit more on what makes it tick so that potentially I might upgrade the CPU to the best the SocA can do when I can get them cheap on ebay.
Anyway, I downloaded CPU-Z just to confirm chipset etc. The Asrock K7VT4A PRO is supposed to have the KT400A North bridge (max FSB 333), however, CPU-Z reports my MoBo as having a KT600 North bridge. This may change things a bit as the KT600 can apparently support a 400 FSB thus allowing me to get the (rare) Athlon XP 3000+ 400FSB model.
Does anyone know if this is correct, or whether CPU-Z is mis-reporting? Did Asrock make some of these boards with a KT600 chipset by mistake/ on the quiet instead of the KT400A chipset? (the manual etc all states it has the KT400A chipset, just CPU-Z reports otherwise).
Also, if I ever did upgrade, and saying I could shift the FSB to 400MHz, can I keep te RAM at 333MHz as I've only got 2700 DDR. Ie I know you can have your RAM running faster than your FSB, but can you also have it running slower?
Cheers for your help!