My old Athlon on an Asus A7V8X: Is this possible?

External Since: Dec 19, 2004 Posts: 2

Hi to everybody!

I have a computer with an Athlon 1300 in it on an Asus A7V-motherboard. I
would like to expand the memory a bit, but DDR-RAM is much cheaper than
SD-RAM which is needed on this board. I am considering buying a new mobo
with DDR-RAM, this will give me USB2 as well and a good ATA100 interface
(which gives problems on my current board).
My question is, will this work? According to Asus' site, this mobo is for
XP-processors and mine is not XP. Not knowing much about those different
core's, I made a report with crystal CPU-ID which I pasted at the bottom, so
experts will have enough info to see which CPU I have.

I thank You very much for any tips and please forgive me if my English is
not good: it is not my mother tongue.

Sincerely,
Rene

P.S. I googled a lot but only found sites like ebay where there are
computers for sale.

CPU Name : AMD Athlon (Thunderbird)
Vendor String : AuthenticAMD
Name String : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Architecture : x86
Process Rule : 0.18 um
Platform : Slot A / Socket A
CPU Type : Original OEM processor [0]
Number(Logical) : 1
Family : 6
Ext. Family : 7
Model : 4
Ext. Model : 4
Stepping : 2
Ext. Stepping : 2
Feature : MMX MMX+ 3DNow! 3DNow!+
PowerManagement :

Current Original
Clock : 1311.69 MHz 1300.00 MHz
System Clock : 100.90 MHz 100.00 MHz
System Bus : 201.80 MHz 200.00 MHz
Multiplier : 13.00 13.00
Data Rate : DDR
Over Clock : 0.90 %

L1 I-Cache : 64 KB
L1 D-Cache : 64 KB
L2 Cache : 256 KB [Full:1311.69 MHz]
Memory : 896 MB

CPUID : EAX EBX ECX EDX
----------------------------------------------
00000000 : 00000001 68747541 444D4163 69746E65
00000001 : 00000642 00000000 00000000 0183F9FF
80000000 : 80000006 68747541 444D4163 69746E65
80000001 : 00000742 00000000 00000000 C1C7F9FF
80000002 : 20444D41 6C687441 74286E6F 5020296D
80000003 : 65636F72 726F7373 00000000 00000000
80000004 : 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000005 : 0408FF08 FF18FF10 40020140 40020140
80000006 : 00000000 41004100 01008140 00000000

MSR : EAX1 EDX1 EAX2 EDX2
: 03001008 00000000 00000000 00000000
QPF : 3.579545 MHz

External Since: Jul 20, 2004 Posts: 1094

On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:05:26 +0200, René wrote:

> I have a computer with an Athlon 1300 in it on an Asus A7V-motherboard. I
> would like to expand the memory a bit, but DDR-RAM is much cheaper than
> SD-RAM which is needed on this board. I am considering buying a new mobo
> with DDR-RAM, this will give me USB2 as well and a good ATA100 interface
> (which gives problems on my current board).
> My question is, will this work? According to Asus' site, this mobo is for
> XP-processors and mine is not XP. Not knowing much about those different
> core's, I made a report with crystal CPU-ID which I pasted at the bottom, so
> experts will have enough info to see which CPU I have.
>
Yes, it will work, but if you are going to spend money for a new MB and
ram, you'd be much better off getting a new cpu too and go to socket 754
or 939 and then selling your old MB/cpu/ram as a compete unit. Short of
that, used PC100/133 ram is so cheap you might just want to consider that
option. I've got a 128MB PC133 stick I'd give anyone that would walk to
door and ask for it. Smile

on ebay now, but going fast

168 Pin PC133 512MB SDRAM $20.83 6 6m
PC133 512MB SDRAM $18.00 8 8m

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