Asus A7V (classic kt133) & 2400+

[LBJGH]

A great success story for Asus, AMD and my buddy!

He has a classic A7V with at KT133 chipset. Yep the motherboard is almost 3 1/2 years old and will run current CPU's

You have to love a company that doesn't screw the consumer with a mandatory motherboard upgrade for every new CPU.

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[mata2974]

I have that MB on my other computer, and its rock solid.

[LBJGH]

Maybe it's time for a brain transplant on the old puppy! I had one too but sold it thinking I was out of luck for upgrading.

Originally posted by mata2974
I have that MB on my other computer, and its rock solid.

[Bigdogbmx]

22x multi!!!!!!

[brennan77]

He must have hardwired the multiplier. I have this same motherboard in my parents' PC. They just might inherit my 1800 if I can easily get it working. How'd he get the multiplier?

[Yodums]

Hehe not bad but the memory of that SDR and chipset is really restricting the full performance of that 2400+ chip! With the demands of SDR, you could get him a cheap ECS board + DDR ram and it'll be a lot faster. However, not saying that current rig is bad at all. It's good that a motherboard that old can take new technology!

[LBJGH]

The 2100+ and up have the high multipliers defaulted so the motherboard recognizes all the upper multipliers up to 24x

The 2000+ and lower use the low multipliers so the motherboard maxes out at 12.5x You cut the last L3 to enable the high multipliers on 1700+ to 2000+ cpu's though.

Originally posted by brennan77
He must have hardwired the multiplier. I have this same motherboard in my parents' PC. They just might inherit my 1800 if I can easily get it working. How'd he get the multiplier?

[LBJGH]

The SDR is definitely a bottleneck for ultimate performance however a SDR mobo running at 2.2GHz will still run any game you throw at it.

Originally posted by Yodums
Hehe not bad but the memory of that SDR and chipset is really restricting the full performance of that 2400+ chip! With the demands of SDR, you could get him a cheap ECS board + DDR ram and it'll be a lot faster. However, not saying that current rig is bad at all. It's good that a motherboard that old can take new technology!

[brennan77]

Originally posted by LBJGH
The 2100+ and up have the high multipliers defaulted so the motherboard recognizes all the upper multipliers up to 24x

The 2000+ and lower use the low multipliers so the motherboard maxes out at 12.5x You cut the last L3 to enable the high multipliers on 1700+ to 2000+ cpu's though.



Thanks.

[Shade00]

Well, geez... I just sold my KT133 board cheap... if I had known I could've put a processor like that on there I would've done that instead.

I have seen people running KT133A boards with Bartons, though. Pretty neat.

[Yodums]

Originally posted by LBJGH
The SDR is definitely a bottleneck for ultimate performance however a SDR mobo running at 2.2GHz will still run any game you throw at it.



Games now depend more on video cards than CPU performance IMHO. With a good video card, that system would hold back the true potential of the video card since there's hardly any memory bandwidth compared to DDR.

[mata2974]

Yodums what ever happened to that beaver, did you have 4 lunch??