Which the fastest processor can I choose to motherboard with KT133 chipset
Faraon
I'd like to know, what kind of amd proccesor can I put into my
motherboard (GIGABYTE GA-7ZX series) with KT133 chipset (but not KT 133A).
The system bus speed is selectable at 100 to 133 MHz. My clock generator is
ICS 9249-141 and I can choose FSB as a: 95, 100, 105, 110, 113, 115, 117,
and 133).
What's the fastest processor I can put into my computer?
With regards,
Piotr Walendowski
P.S. Happy Easter!
Wes Newell
> Hello!
>
> I'd like to know, what kind of amd proccesor can I put into my
> motherboard (GIGABYTE GA-7ZX series) with KT133 chipset (but not KT 133A).
> The system bus speed is selectable at 100 to 133 MHz. My clock generator is
> ICS 9249-141 and I can choose FSB as a: 95, 100, 105, 110, 113, 115, 117,
> and 133).
>
> What's the fastest processor I can put into my computer?
>
Well, the 133 setting won't work in the KT133 chipset due to an
engineering bug in the chipset (the reason for the KT133A). So about the
most you will get out of would be around 115, and that's overclocking the
PCI/AGP buses and maybe ram bus too, depending on board. So for
conservative figures, 24x100 (2400MHz) is the max, assuming you get an
unlocked cpu. If you have good ram, tolerant PCI/AGP components, then
24x115 (2760MHz), but you probably won't find any K7 cpu that will run
that fast with extreme cooling. See link below for more info. The cpu in
the sig line is an unmodified, unlocked, 2100+ Tbred B core, AIUHB 0302.
--
Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.htm
Erez Volach
1400MHz/100. I have the same board, revision 1, but with a different clock
generator (there were 2 possible) with FSB's 100, 102, 104, 106, 108, 110,
112, 133. All but the 133 worked fine with my PC133 and Duron 750,
overclocking the FSB and memory (up to 149MHz), but PCI/AGP are locked IIRC.
There was no bios update for Athlon XP when they were released. officially
it is not supported, even at speeds within the boards limits, so not sure if
they will work at 100MHz.
http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/CPUSupportList/CPUSupportList_Socket+A.htm
"Wes Newell" <w.ne...@TAKEOUTverizon.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2004.04.10....@TAKEOUTverizon.net...
Wes Newell
> > "Wes Newell" <w.ne...@TAKEOUTverizon.net> wrote in message
> news:pan.2004.04.10....@TAKEOUTverizon.net...
>> On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:09:38 +0200, Faraon wrote:
>>
>> > I'd like to know, what kind of amd proccesor can I put into my
>> > motherboard (GIGABYTE GA-7ZX series) with KT133 chipset (but not KT
>> > 133A).
>> > The system bus speed is selectable at 100 to 133 MHz. My clock generator
>> > is ICS 9249-141 and I can choose FSB as a: 95, 100, 105, 110, 113,
>> > 115, 117, and 133).
>> >
>> > What's the fastest processor I can put into my computer?
>> >
>> Well, the 133 setting won't work in the KT133 chipset due to an
>> engineering bug in the chipset (the reason for the KT133A). So about
>> the most you will get out of would be around 115, and that's
>> overclocking the PCI/AGP buses and maybe ram bus too, depending on
>> board. So for conservative figures, 24x100 (2400MHz) is the max,
>> assuming you get an unlocked cpu. If you have good ram, tolerant
>> PCI/AGP components, then 24x115 (2760MHz), but you probably won't find
>> any K7 cpu that will run that fast with extreme cooling. See link below
>> for more info. The cpu in the sig line is an unmodified, unlocked,
>> 2100+ Tbred B core, AIUHB 0302.
>>
> AFAIK this board (7ZX) will not take even an XP1500+, fasest is Athlon
> 1400MHz/100. I have the same board, revision 1, but with a different
> clock generator (there were 2 possible) with FSB's 100, 102, 104, 106,
> 108, 110, 112, 133. All but the 133 worked fine with my PC133 and Duron
> 750, overclocking the FSB and memory (up to 149MHz), but PCI/AGP are
> locked IIRC. There was no bios update for Athlon XP when they were
> released. officially it is not supported, even at speeds within the
> boards limits, so not sure if they will work at 100MHz.
I just told you the 133 setting won't work on the KT133 chipset. Did you
read anything I wrote? And you are flat wrong about the fastest cpu that
will run in it too.
> http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/CPUSupportList/CPUSupportList_Socket+A.htm
This means nothing. It's virtually worthless BS from Gigabyte. The same BS
Abit shows for the board below.:-)
Here's Abits BS.
http://fae.abit.com.tw/eng/faq/generic/checkcpu.htm
And it's as worthless as Gigabytes.
Here's the cpu running at 2400MHz.
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : Unknown CPU Type
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 2400.188
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 4784.12
The only problem I could see would be if the some idiot wrote the bios to
set the FSB at 133Mhz when a cpu with a 133MHz default FSB was installed.
In that case, it won't boot until you mod the cpu for a 100Mhz default
FSB since the chipset won't support a 133MHz FSb (Thanks VIA).
If you want to know about the default FSB look here.
http://fab51.fc2web.com/pc/barton/athlon-e21.html
Wes Newell
> If you want to know about the default FSB look here.
> http://fab51.fc2web.com/pc/barton/athlon-e21.html
I also forgot to mention that a fast search found people running XP's in
this board (7ZX) already.