A7V333 rev 1.01 and a Barton 3000+

[DoDau]

Anyone out there got the A7V333 rev 1.01 board? (mines that, with raid)

I want to put a Barton 3000+ on it. But the Asus site says it will support it with BIOS 1016 on a rev 2.0 board.......

I know the BIOS is a pre-requisite but how about the PCB? Anyone out there tried it? whats the fastest CPU you are running on it?

-DoD

 

[boyRacer]

You can try asusboards.com... lots of brave souls over there that will probably try to make a $300 cpu work on it... :Q

 

[DoDau]

This sucks....I bought this board because i knew ASUS was going to release a flash to ramp it up to 166 FSB.....and now that its flashed up and ready to go it wont take Barton (which is just a T'Bred with more cache)

-DoD

 

[Pentium]

I have a 1.04 same mobo and It really sux 🙁 Now i can't afford a new mobo AND a CPU!!

 

[DoDau]

I have been talking to a lot of people from a lot of different forums.....

It seems that this revision wont natively support 166FSB without overclocking (and that isnt always successful either)

I am mega pissed. Cause now i'm in the same boat as you......

 

[BDSM]

I have one of those boards and I am running at 166 mhz (x2) right now.. works fine for me.

 

[DoDau]

The following is what they told me......

ah heck it... I'm goin for a Soltek nForce 2 board now.....



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