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Scali
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19 Jahre dabei !
AMD Athlon XP
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Please excuse the English, my German isn't that great (I can understand it, but I can't write it very well).
I currently have an MSI K7T Turbo board with 1800+, and I would like to upgrade the CPU if possible.
Problem is... officially the 1800+ is the fastest CPU for my board.
However, it shares the BIOS with the Turbo 2 revision, which supports up to 2600+.
I've seen people on forums who are running a 2400+ Tbred 'A' on older revisions of the board, and it works okay. So it seems that my board can support CPUs faster than 1800+, at least with Palomino and Tbred 'A' core.
But you can't buy those CPUs anymore... You can only get Tbred 'B', Barton, and those new Semprons and such.
I've also seen people who had problems with a Tbred 'B' on older boards, because the multiplier was not working properly (I suppose the pin mod could fix that).
So, what I would like to know is... Does anyone know what Socket A CPUs can actually work (stable) on KT133A boards, and what kind of mods they require?
And what is the fastest CPU you've seen working on a KT133A board?
(I'd like to just upgrade my CPU for now, since you can get very fast CPUs for less than 100e now... then I can delay a complete upgrade for another year or so).
By the way, I also have a KT266A (Asus A7V266-E) motherboard here somewhere.. with pretty much the same problem... Officially it only supports up to 2600+... but could I get faster CPUs working on it?
Thanks in advance
(Geändert von Scali um 22:29 am Jan. 13, 2005)
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Scali
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OC Newbie
19 Jahre dabei !
AMD Athlon XP
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Ah, so a Barton will actually work? That's good news.
The voltage should not be a problem... my board can be set between 1.55v and 1.85v or so.
The multiplier would be a problem...
I'd have to buy a really fast Barton to make it run good with my lower bus speed. But I could try to overclock my bus, I guess. Then it would depend on my memory how fast it will go.
However, I've seen that there are XP-Mobile CPUs aswell, they run at 266 MHz bus, but do have the 512 kb cache of the Barton.
I could get a 2600+ or 2800+ of those perhaps, and pray it works too  (problem there could be the powersaving, I heard that it runs at the lowest speed by default on some boards).
I really want a 512 kb model anyway, because my memory is slow (PC133 sdram). The more cache, the better
Thanks for the info.
Anyone else know people who run new CPUs with KT133A?
(Geändert von Scali um 23:38 am Jan. 13, 2005)
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