What's the lowest speed CPU that a k7s5a Pro can do?

[JEDI]

What's the lowest speed of the following chips that the K7s5a Pro can do?

- Duron?
- Thunderbird?
- XP?

 

[JackBurton]

As far as I know, if it is a Socket A processor, it will work. I believe I used a Duron 600 in one of mine.

 

[CraigRT]

Duron 600
good luck finding one.!

 

[Steve]

The lowest speed each chip is available in.

 

[JEDI]

Originally posted by: sm8000
The lowest speed each chip is available in.

which is?

So ANY duron, thunderbird and XP (up to 2400) will work?

 

[Steve]

Yep. Everything from the Duron 500 (!) to the XP 2600+ (266) will run.

 

[Peter]

There has never been a Duron 500. 600 is where it started. I still have one, the very first revision that still is 1.5V (later ones were 1.6V) - and yes, it has originally been in a K7S5A.

Athlons (T-Bird) started at 750 MHz IIRC, Athlon XP (Palomino) also was available in speeds below 1 GHz in "mobile" versions, and started at "1500+" rating on the desktop (which is 1333 MHz IIRC).

 

[Steve]

My bad. Were there any Athlons in the 500 range?

 

[Peter]

Nope. AMD at the time was into MHz marketing, so the new range (Athlon, still on Slot-A at the time) had to start above the old K6-2 range - which topped out at 550 MHz.

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: Peter
Nope. AMD at the time was into MHz marketing, so the new range (Athlon, still on Slot-A at the time) had to start above the old K6-2 range - which topped out at 550 MHz.

There was a Slot A 500mhz Athlon cpu.

http://www6.tomshardware.com/c...217/cpu_charts-16.html