Asus A7V - max CPU speed support (and other questions) ?

[rh71]

I have one of the earliest A7Vs ... I think it's a KT133 or thereabout, not any higher/newer. Does anyone know what the max supported CPU is ? I am running a 1.0GHz T-bird on it and would like to upgrade the processor only. The only link I found was this and it doesn't provide the info I need.

Thx.

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

Mine only supports up to a 1.4GHz thunderbird.

 

[rh71]

I guess I'm looking to upgrade without actually building a whole new PC... what's the best AMD mobo/processor combo right now for < $200 or $300? I guess I'll have to get new RAM (since it's currently PC133) also but that's a separate budget.

Is a 2.5+GHz processor with mobo attainable for that price range (P4 is fine too) ?

 

[Markfw]

Theres lots of threads on this, but here's my take, Abit NF7-S about $90, Barton 2500+ about $80, and 512 meg DDR PC3200 about $80-100$ Thats $250-$270, and it should OC at stock volatage and setting (the only way I do it) to at least 2900+-3000+ speeds. Most people get 3200+ speeds.

 

[Budman]

Have a read here.

 

[NokiaDude]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
Theres lots of threads on this, but here's my take, Abit NF7-S about $90, Barton 2500+ about $80, and 512 meg DDR PC3200 about $80-100$ Thats $250-$270, and it should OC at stock volatage and setting (the only way I do it) to at least 2900+-3000+ speeds. Most people get 3200+ speeds.

How about he buys Kingston HyperX DDR333 RAM, 512mb, and he sets the timings to 2-2-2-5-1T? Those are my CAS timings for STOCK settings with the exact RAM, it's very fast!

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: NokiaDude

Originally posted by: Markfw900
Theres lots of threads on this, but here's my take, Abit NF7-S about $90, Barton 2500+ about $80, and 512 meg DDR PC3200 about $80-100$ Thats $250-$270, and it should OC at stock volatage and setting (the only way I do it) to at least 2900+-3000+ speeds. Most people get 3200+ speeds.

How about he buys Kingston HyperX DDR333 RAM, 512mb, and he sets the timings to 2-2-2-5-1T? Those are my CAS timings for STOCK settings with the exact RAM, it's very fast!

Is a Barton 2500 really only 1.83GHz ? Maybe I'm being naive and reading too much into the processor speed alone, but is it truly less than 2x the 1.0GHz I have now considering the faster RAM and FSB ? I think if I'm going to upgrade, I'd want at least a 2.0-2.5GHz...

 

[Budman]

Did you even read the link I provided rh71 ??

If you can find an unlocked 2400+ this board will take it.

 

[AIWGuru]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: NokiaDude

Originally posted by: Markfw900
Theres lots of threads on this, but here's my take, Abit NF7-S about $90, Barton 2500+ about $80, and 512 meg DDR PC3200 about $80-100$ Thats $250-$270, and it should OC at stock volatage and setting (the only way I do it) to at least 2900+-3000+ speeds. Most people get 3200+ speeds.

How about he buys Kingston HyperX DDR333 RAM, 512mb, and he sets the timings to 2-2-2-5-1T? Those are my CAS timings for STOCK settings with the exact RAM, it's very fast!

Is a Barton 2500 really only 1.83GHz ? Maybe I'm being naive and reading too much into the processor speed alone, but is it truly less than 2x the 1.0GHz I have now considering the faster RAM and FSB ? I think if I'm going to upgrade, I'd want at least a 2.0-2.5GHz...

Yes. THat is its clock speed. no, it is not less than two times what you have now. It's 2.5 times actually. It has SSE support, improved prefetch, double the cache. 33% faster FSB.
To give you a taste of how improved modern Athlons are to the old ones, take a look at the morgan core DURON. That duron had all of the amenities of a palamino excpet only 64KB L2 cache and a 200Mhz fsb. It was the clock for clock equivelent of the 1ghz Thunderbird-b athlon. Add to that 512K cache, 333mhz fsb and you can see that it will be must faster clock for clock than that thunderbird.


You should definitely pick up a new motherboard and CPU. If you want to go really cheap, you can get the board in my sig. It's a solid performer. SIS makes awesome chipsets and this thing has never crashed on me. Ever. You could get an Athlon XP 2400+ which runs at 2ghz (yes, really) and the best part is that this board accomodates both DDR and SDram so you can continue to use your old ram until you decide to pick up some newer DDR.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Budman
Did you even read the link I provided rh71 ??

If you can find an unlocked 2400+ this board will take it.

Yes sorry I didn't mean to sound like I ignored your post. I did read on another a7v info site that it's "iffy" results. If I'm going to purchase a 2400+, I'm not going to risk it on my old board, but buy a new board instead. I originally asked this question because there was a Duron 1.8GHz available for $40 shipped...