my brother has an older pc with a 700mhz duron. it has a 200 fsb. i can get a 1.6ghz duron 266 fsb chip cheap. would the new chip work in this board.
thank you

Hello kakarotx

Welcome to the forums!

First off, a quick search for a "1.6ghz duron 266 fsb chip " came up with a proce of about $40. As to whether or not it will work, I dont know. Hardware isnt my area. Someone else will have to help you out with that I'm afraid. I hope that helped a little though.

PJ

With the disclaimer that I'm no AMD expert...

As a general rule-- if you put faster hardware in a slower board you usually don't gain anything-- because the faster chip can only run at the slower FSB speed-- in other words-- it creates a bottleneck. Data can only flow as fast as the slowest link in the chain-- the chip's actual speed doesn't change-- but the FSB can only handle so much.
This is why it's good to research before you buy Many people think you can just through any chip/video-card/RAM in any PC and it will go faster--so they end up wasting money on non-returnable parts.

AMD-based PC's sometimes have adjustable FSB's, however--usually though 'jumper' settings on the board itself.
To know for sure-- we'd need to know the exact model of motherboard. If your PC is an off-the-shelf model I would not expect it to be adjustable-- but as I said I am no AMD expert.

We need:
Motherboard or PC manufacturer
Motherboard model name/number
Amount/type of RAM
Video Adapter

...and others-- you could run something like this:SIW

SIW - System Information for Windows - Software,Hardware,Network

save a log-file and post it here.