Athlon 3200 400 fsb Barton core?

I purchased an Athlon 3200 400 FSB Barton core CPU on eBay by mistake, my motherboard is 333 FSB and will support a Barton core to 3200, will the 400 CPU work in a 333 motherboard?

 

no, but if you stick it in it might run at at a lower speed. the chips are locked at a certain multiplyer, times that to your bus speed and that is how fast the chip runs.

 

Ok so this means the CPU will run at around 2600????????????

 

No. The Athlon XP 3200+ runs at a clock speed of 2.2 GHz. It has a 200 MHz FSB clock rate (400 MHz is the data rate). 2200/200 = 11. So your processor has a multiplier of 11. Multipliers are locked, so that's what it will be on any system you put it in. Your current mobo has a FSB clock rate of 166 MHz (again, 333 is the data rate). 11 * 166 ~= 1.8 GHz.

 

OK, thanx for the info guys, I feel a lot more confident about it now. Cheers Bob