Upgrading from 850 TBird on ASUS A7V 200FSB

[virga]

Any opinions/suggestions on these? Retail 1300 Duron @ $50, OEM 1.1 TBird @ $33, OEM 1.2 TBird @$86, or used 1.3 TBird (auction - no warranty) which could go up to $80. The machine is used for business apps, web site dev. and by the gamers in the house for 3 system wireless LAN with Quake, Half Life et al.
Thanks in advance

Win 98 SE
GeForce2 MX 32 MB
256 MB Ram

 

[m1ke101]

does it support tbreds? If it does, get the 1700+ instead. I think its only $50 at newegg.

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: m1ke101
does it support tbreds? If it does, get the 1700+ instead. I think its only $50 at newegg.

didnt you read the title? A7V only supports 200FSB.

A duron 1.3ghz is probably the highest you can go.

 

[mechBgon]

According to Asus' CPU-support finder, the max CPU (officially) is a 200MHz-FSB Thunderbird 1400MHz. PCB rev. 1.05 supports the Morgan-core Durons, which came out as low as 900MHz eventually.

If your RAM were PC133 already, and you had a respectable-brand 300W+ power supply, then you might also consider getting an ECS K7S5A and an AthlonXP 1700+. The K7S5A can take PC133 memory or DDR (performance difference between the two being 0% to 10% in my tests) and performs well enough. That combo would be about $110 shipped or thereabouts.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: Budman

Originally posted by: m1ke101
does it support tbreds? If it does, get the 1700+ instead. I think its only $50 at newegg.

didnt you read the title? A7V only supports 200FSB.

A duron 1.3ghz is probably the highest you can go.

I put an 1800+(Palamino) on a KT133-E mobo..it booted as 1150mhz...as always ymmv

personally if its running...I'd save towards another mobo/cpu setup instead...like the abovementioned TBred 1700+ for $52(whatever it is at the moment) and one of tcsenter's mobo listed switchable memory mobos.