KinetiZ7B and AthlonXP

[Guest]

Hi all,
does anyone know if the QDI KinetiZ 7B can support an athlonXP CPU?
I asked at the qdi forum and the answer was that officially it supports up to athlon 1.4 but they said that I could always try (!) using a higher CPU and let them know if it really works(!?!?!!). Not much help coming from that....
Anyway, I was thinking to buy an athlonXP 1600+ which is running at 1.4GHz anyway.

So has anyone tried it? (of course it wouldn't suppord DDR)
I suppose I can borrow an athlonXP 1600+ CPU and try it. If so, is there any danger to damage the CPU coming from different voltage (should I make any adjustments?)?

Thanks in advance, I've been reading THG for quite a long time but this is my first post to the forum.

 

[Guest]

so noone knows anything about VIA KT133 and AthlonXP compatibility issues?

 

[Ed_Phoon]

Flash your motherboard with latest BIOS, it should work.

 

[njeske]

If your motherboard only has the KT133 chipset (not KT133A or better) than you can absolutely not use the Athlon XP. This processor runs on a 266MHz Front-Side-Bus and your chipset only supports a maximum of 200MHz. Sorry, but your going to have to get a new motherboard and probably new memory too since DDR-RAM is so cheap now. Just get yourself a SiS735 chipset board (ECS K7S5A) and 256MB PC2100 memory along with your processor. If you are already spending $200 on a new processor, you might as well spend the extra $100 and do it right.


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[Guest]

well no maney for all that right now... (damn, i think i'll let my mobo get 1yr old before i change it this time (just bought it last february...)
Anyway, I think I'd go for KT266A I ' was to upgrade right now though. It scores the best performance and as for the instability issues... what can I say, all those years Bill got us used to it(msdos was the most stable OS after all... )
thanks for the answer though!