266 FSB on a KT133? Anyone tried it?

[Aman99]

Hi, i am going to purchase a new CPU soon. I have an Abit KT7-RAID motherboard. I plan to upgrade the motherboard to a KT133A board in the near future. My question is this, can I run a 266 mh FSB athlon, on a KT133 board, as long as i unlock the multiplier and only run the FSB at 200 mhz?

Has anyone tried this? let me know, thanks!

Aaron

[Fiz]

It will run fine on the KT133, you aer just going to lose alittle performance overall.

[Fiz]

OOPS!!! LOL, posted too early. Just unlock it and you will aight.

[donnie]

AXIA chips come unlocked. If you use it on a KT7-Raid board it will loose about 1/4 the speed acording to the book I have from AMD that came with my 1333/266 chip I bought today.

[Randy]

My 1GHz AXIA did not come unlocked.

[erik sinsel]

I'm wondering how this turned out, and if the poster is still here to reply. I have an old kt7-raid mb with kt133 and I'm considering getting an athlon xp 1700+ cpu and trying to run it in my kt7 for now, then upgrade cpu/ram to ddr when I have more money.

Good experiences with putting the xp in a kt133 mb?

[UnseenMenace]

Originally posted by donnie
AXIA chips come unlocked. If you use it on a KT7-Raid board it will loose about 1/4 the speed acording to the book I have from AMD that came with my 1333/266 chip I bought today.

As correctly stated also by Randy not all AXIA's came unlocked and most certainly the 1ghz did not.

[UnseenMenace]

Originally posted by erik sinsel
I'm wondering how this turned out, and if the poster is still here to reply. I have an old kt7-raid mb with kt133 and I'm considering getting an athlon xp 1700+ cpu and trying to run it in my kt7 for now, then upgrade cpu/ram to ddr when I have more money.

Good experiences with putting the xp in a kt133 mb?

I would believe that an XP processor in a KT7 would be a NO NO as I expect that the bios would not recognise the processor correctly due to the fact that I have the same problem with my slightly later KT7a-Raid v1.
This is not to say that the processors do not work, 'some' do but it displays incorrectly in the bios (remember though that the KT7a has the later kt133a chipset capable of running 133 mhz FSB speeds and 266 AMD processors). If you are going to attempt this I would look for very low end XP's as the XP2100+ currently is my Epox system does NOT work in the Abit

[The Coolest]

The only factory unlocked TBirds I heard of are the 1200 and up which are running at 133MHz, the 100MHz (200FSB) ones are still locked. My 1200 TBird which is the 266FSB chip came unlocked.

[UnseenMenace]

Originally posted by The Coolest
The only factory unlocked TBirds I heard of are the 1200 and up which are running at 133MHz, the 100MHz (200FSB) ones are still locked. My 1200 TBird which is the 266FSB chip came unlocked.

While you are correct that the majority of unlocked processors were (266mhz FSB) T-birds of 1200 mhz and above however it does not ring true of all 266 processors as the 1 ghz was available in both 200 and 266 versions which from my knowlege were both locked.

[The Coolest]

Yea, that's why I said 1200 and up, all the others were locked, no matter what FSB they were designed to run at