KT5 6590 board and new Barton 200fsb amd

Does anyone know if MSI will be updating the BIOS on the Kt4 6590 chipset to take the new AMD Barton 0.13 XP3000/XP3200 200FSB Processors.
I have checked the CPU support for my board and at present it says no, but When i look in my Bios I can make the FSB go upto 200 as at present its running at 166.
I am using Ver 1.4 at the mo
Thanks in advance
Daz
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The KT400 was not made for 200fsb, it was made for DDR400.  So to answer your question, I would have to say no to official supprt.  As of this date, the only official support for the 200fsb CPU's would be from the nForce2.  No real word yet on the KT400A yet.

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