ECS K7S5A mobo

[DrMrLordX]

My K7S5A still works after 2 years and 9 months of (ab)use. The onboard NIC rocks, and, back in the day, it was the fastest Socket A motherboard in existance for the period of about 1 month(until the KT266A started showing up on mobos).

Yay for SiS.

 

[Steve]

The K7S5A will support up to an Athlon XP 2400+ with a 266 bus, or a 2600+ with a 266 bus (both being Thoroughbred cores) if you can find one of those. Not sure about the Thorton cores.

 

[ToXiCRaGE]

So what you are saying that the K7S5A can only support max 2400+ cpus with a Thoroughbred core only? What about Barton cores? Can you even find a 2400+ Barton or do they start at 2500+?

 

[Steve]

I don't know of any Bartons below 2500+, but if they do run in that board they'd be underclocked because the board can only do 266 FSB.