if i stuck in an athlon xp cpu in a KT7, would it boot?

[AkumaX]

lets say i threw in an xp2000+ (1.67ghz, = 12.5 x 133)

would it:

a) not boot at all
b) boot @ 1250mhz (12.5 x 100)
c) blow up my room


TIA!!

 

[Vette73]

It would probable just come up as a 1.25Ghz.

You would do better to get a 1.3Ghz Duron, cheaper and would give about the same performance.

If you already have a XP 2000+ then just spend the $74-80 for a newboard

 

[AkumaX]

well, the reason why i asked is because i dont have a kt133a/kt266(a)/kt333/amd 761 chipset. all i have is my kt7 from 2 years ago (runnin a duron 750 @ 1000), and i want to test the cpus that my friend gave me to test work. he's all intel, and ive got 1 amd

 

[jiffylube1024]

I'm not sure if it would. I hear that even in KT133A motherboards that support the XP, you need a BIOS flash first, and there aren't any for KT133 chipsets, that I know of.

 

[novice]

I recently upgraded my MSI K7T Turbo to an XP1700+ and while I didn't flash the BIOS, I did set the jumper for 133 Mhz front side bus. It recognizes my XP1700+ as a 1.466 ghz Athlon (correct speed, even if there is no such thing ). And it works fine, Sandra also recognizes it as a Athlon 1.46 gig. I have downloaded the updated BIOS, but haven't had the guts to install it yet. (My history of flashing BIOS's is 1 for 1, but I was more than a little nervous about trying it ) Does your K7T support the 133 fsb? If not, then it will probably see it as an Athlon 1.25 gig.
Chuck

 

[zzzz]

From Pauls Faq:

KT7/KT7-RAID: 100MHz (200MHz DDR) FSB processors only. Fastest processor supported is the Athlon 1400(100) - but it must have locked (disconnected) L1 bridges. AthlonXP processors are not and will not be supported. All Duron and Duron (Morgan core) processors are supported.

 

[KF]

I believe I have read that it does work. Obviously the mobo does not have the correct 133Mhz FSB available. What you should get is the multiplier times 100. If you go above a 12.5 multiplier, you may have an odd result, because the bridges for the over 12.5x Tbirds are non standard, and the bridges for XP are different.

I haven't heard that it will do any harm to the CPU. Let us know how it turns out.