A7V

[Wannabeswede]

Thinking of buying the A7V and then getting the Athlon 1G. Probably
get 256MB of memory. If the A7V is a 200MHZ FSB why is the memory
133? Also wonder since I haven't been looking before how old the A7V
is? If I wait a little while is there going to be a new version? Or
is the A7V somewhat recent?
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[Christian]

Wannabeswede wrote:

> Thinking of buying the A7V and then getting the Athlon 1G. Probably
> get 256MB of memory.

Good choice. Get original (brand) mem sticks though.

> If the A7V is a 200MHZ FSB why is the memory
> 133?

Fsb is 100 mhz. Internal processor speed is 200mhz

> Also wonder since I haven't been looking before how old the A7V
> is? If I wait a little while is there going to be a new version?

Maybe. 1.02 (or has 1.04 been released yet?) is the most recent version.

> Or
> is the A7V somewhat recent?
> Tack (Swedish for Thanks)
>

Varsågod. (swedish for here you go or something...)

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[Kai Leibrandt]

> Fsb is 100 mhz. Internal processor speed is 200mhz

Not quite. Bus speed is 100MHz, but per clock cycle two bits are transferred
(i.e. on rising edge and on the falling edge), the 200MHz thing is just a
marketing ploy.

Kai.

[Daniel Rejuan]

the AMD chipset supports a 200 Mhz bus speed. your memory modules however do
not. when you compare the PEntium chip with the AMD, a pentium chipset can
be configured only at 100 or 133 Mhz bus speed. the AMD goes twice as fast
with 200. that shouldn't oppose any problems.

as for the A7V, I would wait a bit if I were you. soon there will be a
266Pro version of the A7V which comes in a bus rate of 266 Mhz, (2x 133)
now its 2x 100. Keep an eye out for that.

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[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

In article <93q9v6$tod$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>, Wannabeswede
<kevin....@openwave.com> writes

>Thinking of buying the A7V and then getting the Athlon 1G. Probably
>get 256MB of memory. If the A7V is a 200MHZ FSB why is the memory
>133? Also wonder since I haven't been looking before how old the A7V
>is? If I wait a little while is there going to be a new version? Or
>is the A7V somewhat recent?
>Tack (Swedish for Thanks)

Get the A7v133, released this week. The A7v is getting on for a year old
now. If you wait another several weeks, and pay 2x the money you can get
a DDR board without the dreaded Via chipset, but I'd just go for the
A7V133 right now. (This runs the FSB at 133Mhz to match the memory) -
you will need a special 266 Mhz FSB cpu though (or an unlocked one).

Here are some SiSoft Sandra numbers for CPU and memory performance on
the A7V133. I have also proved that you can 're-clock' a Duron 800
(unlocked) from 8*100 to 6*133, which is what I suspected, although
someone told me they had tried and it didn't work.

Asus A7v133 Duron800, 128MB PC133 CAS2 Crucial SDRAM

Sandra CPU benchmark Sandra Memory BM
ALU / FPU Int / Float

P2-266 (my old m/c) 713 / 356 101 / 102
Duron 600 (per Sandra) 1675 / 817 367 / 400
Duron 798 6*133, PC133 CAS2 - 2245 / 1098 481 / 563
Duron 800 8*100, PC133 CAS2 - 2235 / 1099 431 / 518
Duron 800 8*100, PC100 CAS2 - 2223 / 1099 379 / 427
Athlon 1Ghz 100FSB, PC133 - 2792 / 1362 434 / 521

As you can see, and as you'd expect, the cpu performance is the same
(within the limits of error) but the memory throughput is up by ~10%,
about the same increase as you get by running PC133 memory instead of
PC100 with a 2*100MHz FSB.

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