The new amd with 266Mhz bus

[Oxy]

Can it be used on a A7V133 board? Would it do any difference. I am about to buy 1.2Mhz Athlon and since there is not much difference in cost maybe i should get the 266 fsb one.

 

[DickBurns]

yes and yes. You can use it in that board and it will be a little faster in the 200mhz version.

 

[Oxy]

Can I also use pc100 rams on it untill i get better rams?

 

[Viper GTS]

If your PC100 RAM is capable of running at 133, then yes. If not you'll be limited to whatever the top speed of the RAM is.

Viper GTS

 

[hifimaster]

<< Can I also use pc100 rams on it untill i get better rams? >>



I think you can if you run your cpu at 200mhz fsb.

 

[Oxy]

ok thanks, just aslong it wount lock up.

 

[DickBurns]

I don't think thats right Viper. With that asus you can run the fsb at 133 (266ddr) and the ram at 100. It is just the ddr boards that the ram and fsb have to be the same.

 

[madthumbs]

There is no 1.2Mhz athlon.

 

[Oxy]

Opps sorry 1.2Ghz *blush*

 

[Viper GTS]

OK, if you want to include running your RAM at 100 MHz, then maybe it will. I dunno for sure if the A7V133 will do that, but I don't count that as running a 133 FSB properly.

Viper GTS

 

[JorgeElPrimero]

It won't lock up on you with pc100 ram USUALLY but there will be a definite performance drop. I had the same issue so I just upgraded my ram and now I fly

 

[DickBurns]

Yes there will be a performance drop by using pc100, but it is only from the loss of memory badwidth and asus supports this config so there should be no stability question as long as it is decent ram.

 

[Oxy]

Well its just temporary i will be using the pc100 rams. I am kinda low on founds and i only wanted to upgrade what i have to and wait some with the things that isnt nessesary to uprgade atonce.

 

[Rand]

There wiull be a performance drop using the PC100SDRAM but you can run the Athlon fine at 1.2GHz/266MHz FSB with a 100MHz memory bus frequency to cater to the PC100 on the board.

 

[smp]

maybe that pc100 can do 133.. When I got my system.. I noticed that the bios was reading the ram as 100 on boot.. but I changed it in the bios and it runs at 133.. I was almost really mad at the retailer, cause I baught 133.. But that's when I didn't know about running the ram at different clocks from within the bios.. oops. Of course, not all 100 will do 133, but 133 will do 100.. :|

 

[Howard]

You know, you could have gotten a Thunderbird 900, upped the FSB to 133, and had the same thing. Assuming, of course, that the Thunderbird can handle such a high speed.