KT7A No benifit to anyone with a chip less than a1GHz??

[Mustanggt]

Hey folks Acording to Anand Review of the KT7A If you Dont have a 1 GHz chip then the upgrade is basicly a waste. Lets say you have a Duron that will only run at 950 your screwed. My duron will run at 1 GHZ but that means 133 FSB is my limit. If it only uses the 7.5 multipier. Am i Taking this the wrong way Is all this true or False?? I was thinking I could run my duron at least 140 FSB by underclocking it but dosent look that way?

 

[rominl]

you can definitely run it at 143 x 7 or even better 154 x 6.5

 

[Mustanggt]

Um no thats not what anand says he says if you select 133FSB that unless you use the 7.5 multiplier the system wont boot,

 

[rominl]

oh, i think that he means is that if you set the fsb to 133 and multiplier to 7, it won't boot. he is trying to say if you set the fsb to 133 or higher, and the overall clock speed to be under 1G, the machine won't boot.

i am sure 143 x 7 should be no problem 😉

 

[Mustanggt]

rominl Whats you been smoking tonight J/K LOL 133 FSB X 7.5 = 997 MHZ 7.5 is min multiplier you can use at 133 FSB so if your chip will only do 1 GHz there is no way to get to higher FSB speeds.

 

[DeathFlame]

And if you searched and found more threads about this very topic, some people have gotten there CPU's to work with a mulitplier less than 7.5, and a FSB over 133. No one is sure what the problem is with the people that do have problems...

 

[rominl]

Mustanggt - i guess i still don't understand... 133 x 7.5 = 1g, but 143 x 7 is also 1g. 154 x 6.5 is 1g as well, right? so 7.5 is not the min multiplier to achieve 1ghz.

if you still don't believe it, i can give you a good proof 😉