which AMD CPU w/ my kt7a-raid

[mercdrive]

duron 800
duron 850
athlon 1.0 ghz
athlon xp 1700
athlon 1.13ghz
athlon 1.4 ghz
athlon 1.33 ghz

also might get a Soyo K7V Dragon plus

which should i use on what i usally mess with pent's not to familar with amd's
just tring to figure which ones to keep and which to sell without spending days swapping and clockin

Thanx

 

[mercdrive]

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[DAPUNISHER]

Keep the XP, doesn't matter if it is a Palomino or Thoroughbred it is going to be better than all the older CPUs you list. Hardware prefetch logic, less power draw and cooler running than the T-bird, SSE, and better TLB are some of these improvements the XP line offered over Thunderbird.

 

[bluestrobe]

I didn't think the KT7A-RAID could accept anything faster than 1.4ghz.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: bluestrobe
I didn't think the KT7A-RAID could accept anything faster than 1.4ghz.

That's correct officially speaking. If it won't boot with a Palomino or t-bred 1700+ he can set it up manually using softmenuIII and the 1.4 t-bird, save-exit-turn it off and put the XP in. He won't get much overclocking though unless the XP has been unlocked because that board will struggle to reach 150FSB. The 1700+ Palomino and T-bred A aren't great overclockers on average either, but the T-bred B can hit 2.4ghz with a good board. It will still be the fastest CPU regardless, because the t-birds were good for maybe 1.6ghz tops unless you got a real peach, and the XP has all the enhancements.

 

[Fenuxx]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Keep the XP, doesn't matter if it is a Palomino or Thoroughbred it is going to be better than all the older CPUs you list. Hardware prefetch logic, less power draw and cooler running than the T-bird, SSE, and better TLB are some of these improvements the XP line offered over Thunderbird.

 

[imported_Kiwi]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Keep the XP, doesn't matter if it is a Palomino or Thoroughbred it is going to be better than all the older CPUs you list. Hardware prefetch logic, less power draw and cooler running than the T-bird, SSE, and better TLB are some of these improvements the XP line offered over Thunderbird.

As an aside, neither quite on topic nor quite off, I have a couple of PC's that are now 2 1/2 and 3 years old, respectively, running the same GA-7ZXE MB's with one a slightly newer version, and except for the extra waste heat, and needing a more efficient hsf for the one with a T-Bird in it, I can only tell the difference between them in a very minimal way - from a Palomino 2100 vs. a T-Bird 1.33 - those MB's top out, I believe, with XP 2200's at 266 MHz. Not that much more "modern" than the KT-7.

I really think that I could see more difference between an XP 2400 running with DDR RAM on another PC (not sure now, but I think it had a Biostar Via MB in it) and the fastest of the two older ones with their SDRAM PC-133 memory than between the 1.33 and the 2100. Was I imagining it? (Excuse my memory, I was "in between" sessions of building my own, versus letting one or another local White Box outfit assemble them for me.) Or is the DDR really not quite that much more efficient after all?


:shocked:

 

[mercdrive]

Well now my cousin is sending a couple mother boards too

I guess I'll have some playing to do