upgrading motherboard

[happyhaphazard]

hi all,
would really appreciate some help

this is my current setup:
Asus A7V133 motherboard rev. 1.04
Athlon 1200
ati radeon 9550
1 gig SDRAM

I am looking to upgrade because my processor is too slow, but i would like to keep the SDRAM. (cost reasons)

Is there a motherboard that still supports SDRAM but also can support, say, a Athlon XP 2400 processor?

Best regards
mike

 

[overlordstu]

I think that realistically you will find that any Athlon based motherboard using AthlonXP is DDR based as it was mainly the VIA KT/KM chipsets that dominated the start of the AthlonXP + DDR rollout needing to combat Intel and the RDRAM they supported at the time (and soon realised their mistake 😉 ).

 

[biostud]

Keeping the SDram would encripple your computer so that the CPU upgrade wouldn't be worth it.

 

[happyhaphazard]

ok thanks for the help 🙂

 

[biostud]

Look at this comparison for performance with different chipsets.


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[CraigRT]

I think that revision of the board is one of the later versions, so you might be able to put an AthlonXP into your existing mobo... check the Asus site and the BIOS updates to see if you can swap your CPU.