KT133 and Morgan core

[Fabje]

I have an Asus A7V Motherboard with the VIA KT133 chipset. I am planning to replace my Duron 800 with a Duron 1200 Morgan. Is this possible? I have heard several different things about this. My MB's max FSB is 200 Mhz, so upgrading to a Duron is my only real option.

 

[Idoxash]

dude from what i read all via 133 chips sets can go no faster then 115mhz and the new duron runs on 133mhz so unless you have 133a
chipsets and up the new duron or the athlon will work and if they do not right.....i have the same prob as you with my abitkt7 mobo.

 

[BlvdKing]

Not true. The Durons run at 100/200 DDR speeds still. I was thinking about doing this as well when the Duron reaches 1.4 GHz, but the performance of the new Morgan core still does not match the performance of the TBird. The only real advantage of getting the Morgan Duron core over the TBird is for SSE and lower temps. I have not figured out if SSE will work with a KT133 motherboard. Some have said it will work no problems but others have said that the BIOS on the KT133 has to recognise the Morgan correctly for SSE to work. There's alot of questions that won't be answered until someone takes a dive and tries out a Morgan Duron on several KT133 chipsets to find out the compatibility between the two. I don't even know if my board will support any Duron above 1.4 GHz. The latest BIOS has 1.4GHz support but says nothing about anything higher.

I have a Giga-byte 7zx KT133 (rev 5.0) and will probably try a Duron Morgan core with they reach 1.4 GHz or higher; I would like lower temps next summer.

 

[jaydee]

Well, you could always underclock the FSB...

 

[Sleater]

You'll need to flash your BIOS to 1008+ for the A7V to recognize the Morgan.

It will work. As mentioned, the Morgan runs at a frequency of 100/200.

Another option, provided your using BIOS 1008, would be to upgrade to a 1.4ghz AthlonB (t-bird w/100/200fsb)

You simply need to ensure the AthlonB is locked, that everything is set to jumperfree mode, and the BIOS will autodetect and boot at 1400mhz

 

[MadRat]

Perhaps H.Oda will come out with a DOS-based switch to run SSE on non-266FSB boards. You all do realize that the Palomino cores are compatible with EVERY socket-A board, just not the 266FSB's? Yes, that means you should be able to run the XP's on the KT133. You will not get SSE because a system-level variable has to be switched "on" to basically read "SSE enabled".