CES K7S5A

[BarryG]

Hey, I'm pretty certain the answer is going to be NO, but I'm going to ask anyway. Is there a chance that a Thoroughbred 2400 will work on the K7S5A from ECS? I think it only takes a Thunderbird but I'm not sure.
Thanks, Barry

 

[Peter]

Yes absolutely. You need to give it the latest BIOS, but then the T-bred B flavor of 2400+ works fine and well, even officially confirmed by ECS. People have also used 2400+ "Thorton" successfully. Only the very first rev. 1.0 boards aren't guaranteed to run them, but even most of those do. No higher than 2400+, because that's where the 133 MHz line of CPUs ends.

Please mind, you'll need adequate power and cooling - but if you come from a higher clocked T-bird (1200 or higher), you possibly had that already.

 

[BarryG]

Her's (it ain't mine) is ECS K7S5A version 3.1. I don't know what version mine is on the other computer upstairs. I typed it in wrong in the title of this thread.
Anyway, her old T-bird is a 1300. It's working fine, it's just that her boyfriend got her a new chip and I would get to keep her old chip to put in place of the 900 chip I have in mine. Otherwise, I start building a computer to hold whichever chip I have available to me.
It always starts somewhere: " Welp, I have this here chip layin' 'round. Might as well do somethin' wid it." HEH heh
Thanks,
Barry

 

[Peter]

Put it in then The T-bird 1300 consumes almost as much power as the 2400+, so no PSU worries there I'd say. As I said above, update the BIOS first.

In both machines, you need to check whether there's 133 MHz capable RAM in there. K7S5A can't run CPU:RAM 133:100. The other way round, yes, but not with the RAM slower than the CPU.

 

[BarryG]

The ram is two sticks of 256 megs each at DDR266, according to the labels. It has a GF2Ti-ProVT video card, etc.
Barry

 

[BarryG]

ttt

 

[DieHardware]

DDR266 (or PC2100) is supposed to run at 133MHz. Install the XP2400 and RAM and set CPU:RAM 133:133.

 

[Peter]

... and in case the old CPUs are 100 MHz bus, set to 100/100 with DDR RAM. Even though you could run 100/133 just as well, 100/100 is faster - the CPU won't use the extra bandwidth, but it'll notice the extra latency.

 

[BarryG]

I've completely forgotten what RAM I have in the machine the 1300 will be going into. It has an Athlon 900 in it right now.
Anyhow, the machine the 2400 is going into will be very happy to hear the news y'all have brought me.
Thanks, Barry