YOU ARE ALL WRONG!!!
There is a misconception among, well, everyone that the Nforce2 boards have PCI/AGP locks. THIS IS NOT THE CASE!!! The only board that has a confirmed PCI lock (by an end user) is the Asus board. The Epox has been confirmed by Epox representatives to have NO PCI LOCK, only AGP locking. There is no confirmation that the Epox board has a 1/6 divider, either. The only reason to even believe the Asus board has PCI lock is because an end user used a PCI Geiger on it and the PCI bus stayed at 33.34 regardless of speed. THIS IS NOT THE CASE WITH ALL OTHER NFORCE2 BOARDS TESTED.
As far as the KT400 boards go, there is no 1/6 divider. Some may have the option in the BIOS, but the 1/6 will either function as a 1/5, or the machine will not boot. This is not something that can be fixed by a BIOS update, it is a limitation to the KT400 chipset that can not be fixed, hence the coming KT400a chipset next year.
Needless to say, the KT400a will NOT beat the NForce2 because of the Hyperthreading/Dual DDR combo. When two identical sticks of DDR are used in the DIMM1 and DIMM3 slots, the memory bandwidth doubles and latency goes down. The KT400a will not be able to touch this.
With all that said, the problem with the Asus board is the narrow voltage options in the BIOS. Volt mods will be required.
Word.
(I've been following this closely since I will be purchasing a mobo/CPU combo verey shortly)
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