K7S5A v1 Compatibility with Duron (Morgan core)

[WangDangDoodle]

I have a ECS K7S5A PCB ver1.X is it compatible with the Durons that use a Morgan core? I would like to run a 1300 on this board. My alternative would be to use a Athlon Tunderbird 1.4 but the stepping codes are good and I would rather use it on a MB I could overclock,

What do you think?

Thanks

 

[mechBgon]

Yes indeed, I've got one of the original version K7S5A's running a Duron 1GHz here. It'll OC to 1.33 by simply bumping to 133/133 for CPU/RAM in the BIOS, too! No crazy cooling required on mine to accomplish that, just a fairly large generic Coolermaster heatsink/fan unit.

If you feel like taking a gamble on the 1GHz > 1.33GHz overclock, I can tell you this: it makes a difference. Last night I was running the UT2003 Demo, playing a deathmatch with 31 bots D) and the difference between the system at 1GHz and 1.33GHz is big. Much smoother at the higher speed. For that reason, you might want to just get an AthlonXP 1600+ instead, and have the benefit of the faster bus and more cache too.

 

[Vette73]

Another thing you could do is get a 1Ghz Duron, if it runs at 133mhz then do it, if it will not do it, then Cut of the bridges and connect another and lower the chip to a 9 (from a 10) and it should do 133Mhz