Athlon configuration question...

[Bagheera]

Dear forumers:

Sorry for bugging you guys with silly questions like this. I am not very good at computers as most of you, so...

Anyway, I have an ASUS A7V133 motherboard with an Athlon Thunderbird 1.4GHZ CPU (133MHZ FSB, not 100). But when I set the FSB speed I got a bit confused. On the AMD website it said something about the Athlon processors with 266 MHZ FSB. What does it mean?

I am just not sure if that "266 MHZ FSB" for Athlon is just for people with DDR RAMs? Does it mean if I get a DDR RAM in the future, I should change the FSB speed of the CPU to 266MHZ and lower the multipliar factor?

I have a 256MB PC-133 SDRAM. Right now my setting is 133 MHZ FSB with 10.5 multipliar factor. Is that correct?

 

[knutp]

The athlon has a ddr bus, so actually it's running at 133 mhz, but it does it at a double rate, 266 mhz. Just as the ddr ram. And your settings are correct with the 10.5 multiplier and 133 mhz fsb.

 

[Bagheera]

hey, thanks!

Oh and one question. Does A7V133 even support DDR RAMs?

 

[Guilty]

No it does not. It is based on the KT133A chipset and supports PC100, PC133, and VC133(forget about this). The A7M266, A7A, A7V266, and upcomong A7N266 support DDR SDRAM.

 

[Bagheera]

Ah ok. Thanks!

The Thunderbird CPU itself does support DDR though, right?

 

[Fardringle]

The CPU itself really doesn't care what type of RAM you use. Memory compatibility is entirely dependent on the motherboard and the motherboard chipset.

 

[Grendel99]

So basically yes