Upgrade from Thunderbird

[Pollock]

Can anyone tell me if I'd need a new motherboard for a Thoroughbred , Thorton, or even Barton Athlon XP if my current motherboard is one designed for Thunderbirds? I'm trying to avoid getting a new motherboard, because that means new ram. Also, if say a Thoroughbred would work, would performance really suffer from using old PC100?

 

[MDE]

What's your current motherboard?

 

[Pollock]

I *think* it's the Asus K7M...I can't be certain though, as this is a system I didn't build.

 

[MDE]

Crack the case open and look between the lower PCI slots for the model number (assuming it's an Asus, if not just look around the motherboard).

EDIT: If it's the K7M, you won't be able to upgrade the CPU past ~1 GHz as that's a Slot A board.

 

[ViperV990]

If you go with an nforce2 board AFAIK you can run the memory at any speed u want... my Abit NF7 for example has memory/FSB dividers where both memory and FSB ratios are adjustable from 3 to 6. So basically u can run the memory as slow as half the FSB speed or as fast as twice the FSB speed.

 

[Pollock]

Yeah, but obviously 168 pin SDRAM DIMMs won't fit in 184 pin DDR DIMM slots...Oh well...

 

[ViperV990]

uuuh d'oh!

 

[RandomFool]

it might work witha bios update depending on the board. I've got a old kt133 mb lying around here that supposedly can run them with the new bios update.
*edit*
Update to support AMD Athlon XP 2400+ & 2600+ CPU sign on
is what it says when i looked it up