Please help me: ASUS K7M

[alexdimov]

I currently own an ASUS K7M motherboard with an Athlon Classic Slot A at 500 Mhz running on it. I would like to upgrade to a 1Ghz Thunderbird Slot A CPU but I have no clue whether it is supported. The ASUS website has insufficient information on that matter. Does someone know whether the K7M supports Thunderburd CPUs? Thank you in advance,
Alex

 

[DonaldC]

It does if you have the correct BIOS. I think I was using the 1009 with my 950mhz and all was fine.

 

[corkyg]

Yes. It is possible . . . I have done it and it has been running perfectly for about a year now. The real problem is finding a Slot A T-Bird CPU! They are very rare. I have another almost identical system with a straight 1 GHz Athlon (K7M w/ Slot A) and it works perfectly as well. I have XP Pro on both systems with no problems.

The K7M is limited, however, on how much SDRAM you can use. They have three slots, and each slot can handle 256 MB for a total of 768. I tried a 512 PC-133 in one of the slots and it would only use 256. So, three 256's DIMMs is the best you can do.

Finding a good cooler for the Slot A processors is also not easy.

 

[fastvideo]

100% working with 1g tbird on mine, using km132 bios. max fbs is at 119.
it is at 10x115@1150 at default core voltage.
have it like almost a year, never had any problems.

 

[alexdimov]

Thanks for your help, everyone. I will put a T-Bird on my machine quite soon.

 

[OmnipotentSpleen]

it's true, it i snot easy to find a SlotA cooler these days. I was lucky, and an anandtech member sold me his VOS32 for 20 dollars shipped about 2 months ago. Thing is awsome. I modfied it to work w/o the heatplate, so it's mounted directly to my Athlon's core. I'm not sure what my sig says, but i have my core at 824mhz from 650 (8 x 103) with a 1/2 cache devider on 3.1ns RAM (325 @ 412mhz) (1.95vcore).

I'd love to be able to get my FSB higher!

At default speeds, the highest my FSB is 106.

Could it be my PC100 @ CAS2 RAM?



I am using the km132 BOIS as well.

Do any of you have a way to monitor your CPU's temp?