On Wed, 09 May 2007 13:35:22 -0600, lyon_wonder
<lyon_wonder RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote:
>I recently was given an old Gateway Athlon 950MHz PC that seems to
>work fine and I plan on using it as a second, backup PC. I'm curious
>what is the maximum Athlon this VIA-based mainboard will support?
>According to CPUz the chipset is a VIA KT133 revision 2 on a mainboard
>made by Microstar, model MS-6330, BIOS version 0AAVWP13, BIOS date
>06/26/2001.
RTFM
http://msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K7T_Turbo_2&class=mb
>Currently it has a Socket 462 Thunderbird-based Athlon
>running 950MHz, which would be a 100MHz FSB part with 133MHz PC133
>SDRAM. Would this chipset accept 133MHz FSB athlons? I'm not so sure
>about AXP support, but IIRC, some Thunderbird Athlons were released
>with 133MHz FSB before AMD came out with XP in late 2001.
>
Supposedly you can go up to AXP 1800 (RTFM). Does the speed gain
warrant the price? You decide. My take on it - use As Is or spend on
something more up to date.
>I also have some 256MB SDRAM DIMMS laying around that I could put into
>that mainboard, though they are PC100 and not PC133.
Will work with your current CPU just fine, maybe even a bit faster
because RAM at 100 will run in synch with CPU. If you still decide to
upgrade CPU to one of 133 fsb, this would hobble it in 2 ways (slower
+ asynch).
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