Athlon Slot A?

[DougFrippon]

Here's the deal..

One of my friend has an Athlon 550mhz SLOTA on an Asus K7V
He wants to upgrade.. so he asked me what he could put on his board.

Hmm.. so.. I think all kinds of athlon SlotA goes to 1ghz max.. right?

Can he put a Tbird SlotA on his Mobo?

And .. is there a big difference with performances between a 1ghz socket, and 1ghz slotA?

Also.. Looking around a bit.. I saw there is the
-Athlon SlotA .. and
-Athlon Thunderbird SlotA

basically.. whats the diifference? hehe

Sorry I'm to lazy to serach the web

 

[Budman]

The K7V will NOT run with a SlotA T-bird, you need a Classic Athlon to use in that board,good luck finding a 1ghz Classic.

 

[Athlon4all]

Yeah, Classic Slot A did hit 1GHz but I dunno if they ever made a 1GHz Tbird Slot A. Just in general, Slot A athlons are going to be more expensive then their Socket A counterparts. On pricewatch, the highest tbird Slot A is 800MHz for $59. The highest Classic Slot A is 1GHz for $287! His best bet is probably gonna be getting the 800Mhz tbird. I would not be suprised to see that the 800 tbird beat a Classic 1Ghz. The difference between the 2 is that the Classic Athlon's had off die cache chips, and this presented a problem, the highest speeed cache chips that AMD could find wer 350MHz, thus once they got to 700MHz, the cache chips started running slower then they were, with 1GHz running at 333MHz, but with the Thunderbird's the cache is on die and runs at the same speed as the CPU it self, thus making a 1GHz tbird's cache run at 1GHz, and a 800MHz at 800 and so forth. So I would get the 800MHz tbird because of how cheap it is and because it probably performs better. And just on another note, the reason AMD didn't go into full Slot A tbird production is because without the need for cache chips, the Sloted Cartridge wasn't necessary and because the Socket Form Factor is simply cheaper to produce so most tbirds are Socket A.

P.S. Oops, I figured K7V would run Slot A tbirds, check price watch for Slot A Athlon Classics, there was only one place selling 1GHz's, AC Micro

 

[DARRIN]

I would get a new socket a mobo for around $100 and a 1 GHz socket A Thunderbird from Newegg.com for $83.

 

[Sugadaddy]

K7V, what a nice board...

Your best bet is to find a used one somewhere. (800mhz or higher, and overclock it)

 

[TunaBoo]

I had a 900 SLOT A T-Bird for a while. We had some 1000s at work.

 

[DARRIN]

I'd keep your eye on the For Sale forum.

 

[majewski9]

He's better off getting a socket A mobo with the upcoming Nforce chipset and a socket TBird or Duron! If all the benchmarks are right then he want have to upgrade for years! If he wants to keep price at a minimum he should buy a KT133A board and a Tbird or Duron! He could use his ram from his old slot-a too!

 

[Dean]

I put in a 900mhz tbird slotA in my Gigabyte 7ix without a problem even though it wasn't recommended. I hear the VIA chipset motherboards had more problems than the AMD 750's with slot tbirds though.

 

[Blayze]

Im still running my K7V, and it is a great board.

on the TBird issue and the K7V I have heard that it will and will not work.


www.k7v.com is a good page for info on this board

 

[Sugadaddy]

I agree, if you have a hard time finding one or it's too expensive, the next best thing would be a KT133A (lets him keep his ram) and a 1 ghz T-bird.