Athlon DDR CPU on KT133A motherboards?

[EglsFly]

Can I run a new AMD Athlon DDR Socket A CPU in a KT133A motherboard?
This is so that I can use the cheaper PC133 SDRAM instead of the more expensive PC2100 DDR Ram.

Motherboards such as:
Asus A7V133
MSI K7T Turbo
Iwill KK266
Abit KT7A

The motherboard also needs to support 1.2GHz out of the box.

Also if you have any recommendations or heard anything bad on any of these boards I'd like to know.

Thanks,
Edward

 

[NelsonMuntz]

PC133 SDRAM is no longer less expensive than PC2100 DDR RAM unless you already have the PC133 stuff. The KT133A chipset is designed to use the Athlon-C 266 MHz FSB (133 MHz double pumped).

 

[EglsFly]

OK, if I go with a motherboard that supports DDR Ram, what is the best buy?
I have purchased ASUS in the past and been happy, but their A7M266 is a bit pricey...

 

[Boonesmi]

epox 8k7a is a nice board, so is the gigabyte 7dx

***note both of boards i listed are based on the same chipset as the asus a7m266 board. performance/stabiltiy is comparable with all 3

 

[majewski9]

If I wanted to buy a DDR board I'd wait! Today's DDR chipsets aren't mature enough to provide a really great DDR performance gain. Wait for Nividia's socket-a chipset or the new via KT266 revision. They KT133A is an awesome chipset! I should know I got a 1.33ghz Athlon and a IWILL KK266. DDR is cheap now but check the prices on 512 mb sticks against those of PC133.

 

[EglsFly]

I ended up getting an Epox 8K7A motherboard (which costs about the same as a non DDR motherboard).
I got PC2100 DDR Ram from Crucial, same price as the PC133.
And the 1.2GHz Athlon 266 DDR CPU was only a couple dollars more.