Asus K7M plus Slot A Tbird, but which one???

[fireman233]

I need some opinions.
I have a Asus K7M and was thinking of dropping a Slot A Thunderbird into the thing. The prices are not outrageous even for the 1 ghz version. What would be a better way to go about speed on such a thing. Could I use a gold finger device with a slot A Tbird??? I know that GFD's are supported, but how high do the multipliers go?? I don't think that most (if not all) GFD's offer multipliers that high. Would a GFD even work on the higher end (ie 1ghz) slot A Tbird?? I would love if someone would set me straight on that.

So should I buy a 700-800 TBird and see if I can GFD it up if there are multipliers, or should I just buy a 900-1ghz Tbird and just see if I can up the FSB a little???

Thanks

[Fink]

I used a ninjamicro GFD and if I remember correctly thier multiplier went to 12. As to which Slot A to get, I guess that I would buy the fastest one that I could afford and OC it as much as possible (non-answer..). Another option would be to buy at least a 750, which has the 2/5 cache multiplier and OC to ?? Or am I wrong in thinking that the Slot A T-birds have external cache chips on them??

[fireman233]

The Tbirds have on die full speed L2, so I don't think you would even have to play with the cache speeds, though I haven't yet tried it.

[AstronMike]

Hmm, youre saying theres a GFD that has a 12 multiplier on it?? My Freespeed Pro only has 10.5. Im currently doing 950 stock voltage with a week 27 2000 classic 750. For some strange reason I cannot get my K7V mobo to see a gig...nothing at all when I tried that.

Is anyone here using a K7V and posting over a gig?? Whats going on?

Oh yea, how fast can that cache overclock? Mine is at stock 2/5 so Im running at 380. Anyone got it higher, or does it need to come down to 1/3 to get the overall MHz higher??

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fireman233 (Jan 04, 2001 12:12 p.m.):
The Tbirds have on die full speed L2, so I don't think you would even have to play with the cache speeds, though I haven't yet tried it.

Thanks, I thought that the T-bird had on-die cache, but couldn't remember...

[fireman233]

Fink,
I just emailed the NinjaMicro People and they said that the freespeed pro only goes as high as 10.5 multiplier. Are you sure about that, or maybe it was a different brand???