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The best CPU you can get is a mobile 2500 barton. It is best, because it
is unlocked, so you can use your 266 mhz bus, and still be able to crank
up the muliplier as high as the K7S5A will allow.

as you bigger hard drives. You would need a PCI IDE controller. they are
cheap, like $30, and with them, you can use as big a drive as you want.

Trashdog (UseLinkToEmail@HardwareForumz.com) wrote:
: I have an older K7S5A and would like to upgrade the cpu from the
: Athlon XP 1600 that I have in there now.

: I’m currently running 512meg of PC2100 RAM. and my Bios is version
: 1.21.11. I was wondering what faster cpu this old board will handle
: comfortably without much overclocking?

: I was also wondering if there is a bios upgrade that will allow the
: board to see a 160gig hard drive as a 160gig and not a 135gig?

: I’m also running Windows XP Pro on the system.

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flipper wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 06:11:29 +0000 (UTC), aa356@chebucto.ns.ca (Brian
> Campbell) wrote:
>
>>The best CPU you can get is a mobile 2500 barton. It is best, because it
>>is unlocked, so you can use your 266 mhz bus, and still be able to crank
>>up the muliplier as high as the K7S5A will allow.
>
> That's a good theory except the K7S5A has no means to set the
> multiplier and the mobiles boot with the 'low power' multiplier active
> so it'll run at 1Ghz, or so.
>
>
>>as you bigger hard drives. You would need a PCI IDE controller. they are
>>cheap, like $30, and with them, you can use as big a drive as you want.
>>
>>Trashdog (UseLinkToEmail@HardwareForumz.com) wrote:
>>: I have an older K7S5A and would like to upgrade the cpu from the
>>: Athlon XP 1600 that I have in there now.
>>
>>: I’m currently running 512meg of PC2100 RAM. and my Bios is version
>>: 1.21.11. I was wondering what faster cpu this old board will handle
>>: comfortably without much overclocking?
>>
>>: I was also wondering if there is a bios upgrade that will allow the
>>: board to see a 160gig hard drive as a 160gig and not a 135gig?
>>
>>: I’m also running Windows XP Pro on the system.
>>
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I have a mobile 2500 barton in my K7S5A rev 1.0 booted up as 2000Mhz unknown
cpu runs ok, havn't bothered upgrading bios.
Here in UK Ebuyer.com still have 2800XP's @266 FSB slightly cheaper than the
mobile 2500.

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On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 00:12:06 GMT, "robm" <not@here.net> wrote:

>
>"flipper" <flipper@fish.net> wrote in message
>news:4qvni15dmfrvi2m7tnjiq42rcdtgbuhm4e@4ax.com...
>> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 06:11:29 +0000 (UTC), aa356@chebucto.ns.ca (Brian
>> Campbell) wrote:
>>
>> >The best CPU you can get is a mobile 2500 barton. It is best, because it
>> >is unlocked, so you can use your 266 mhz bus, and still be able to crank
>> >up the muliplier as high as the K7S5A will allow.
>>
>> That's a good theory except the K7S5A has no means to set the
>> multiplier and the mobiles boot with the 'low power' multiplier active
>> so it'll run at 1Ghz, or so.
>>
>
>The honeyX modified BIOS for K7S5A will give you limited OC-ing ability
>though i have never tried it i have read lots of raves about it on the forum
>links shown in other posts

I'm running HoneyX and yes, it does, the FSB. But no BIOS can make a
K7S5A do multiplier changes as there's no hardware on the board for
it.

>
>i think if you were going to stick with old tech CPU i would be tempted to
>upgrade the board to older but solid OC-able mobo as well somehing like
>NF7-Srev2 or A7N8X-E dlx
>
>that way i can live vicariously through you
> because i know how it is...
>i can't let my two K7S5A's die/go either, while they can kick i help them
>kick on
>
>mine are running 2200 XP, 1600 XP
>
>>
> >as you bigger hard drives. You would need a PCI IDE controller. they are
>> >cheap, like $30, and with them, you can use as big a drive as you want.
>> >
>> >Trashdog (UseLinkToEmail@HardwareForumz.com) wrote:
>> >: I have an older K7S5A and would like to upgrade the cpu from the
>> >: Athlon XP 1600 that I have in there now.
>> >
>> >: I'm currently running 512meg of PC2100 RAM. and my Bios is version
>> >: 1.21.11. I was wondering what faster cpu this old board will handle
>> >: comfortably without much overclocking?
>> >
>> >: I was also wondering if there is a bios upgrade that will allow the
>> >: board to see a 160gig hard drive as a 160gig and not a 135gig?
>> >
>> >: I'm also running Windows XP Pro on the system.
>> >
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flipper wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 21:13:43 +0000, TwoTired <f@tcha.nce> wrote:
>
>>flipper wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 06:11:29 +0000 (UTC), aa356@chebucto.ns.ca (Brian
>>> Campbell) wrote:
>>>
>>>>The best CPU you can get is a mobile 2500 barton. It is best, because
>>>>it is unlocked, so you can use your 266 mhz bus, and still be able to
>>>>crank up the muliplier as high as the K7S5A will allow.
>>>
>>> That's a good theory except the K7S5A has no means to set the
>>> multiplier and the mobiles boot with the 'low power' multiplier active
>>> so it'll run at 1Ghz, or so.
>>>
>>>
>>>>as you bigger hard drives. You would need a PCI IDE controller. they
>>>>are cheap, like $30, and with them, you can use as big a drive as you
>>>>want.
>>>>
>>>>Trashdog (UseLinkToEmail@HardwareForumz.com) wrote:
>>>>: I have an older K7S5A and would like to upgrade the cpu from the
>>>>: Athlon XP 1600 that I have in there now.
>>>>
>>>>: I’m currently running 512meg of PC2100 RAM. and my Bios is version
>>>>: 1.21.11. I was wondering what faster cpu this old board will handle
>>>>: comfortably without much overclocking?
>>>>
>>>>: I was also wondering if there is a bios upgrade that will allow the
>>>>: board to see a 160gig hard drive as a 160gig and not a 135gig?
>>>>
>>>>: I’m also running Windows XP Pro on the system.
>>>>
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>>
>>I have a mobile 2500 barton in my K7S5A rev 1.0 booted up as 2000Mhz
>>unknown cpu runs ok, havn't bothered upgrading bios.
>>Here in UK Ebuyer.com still have 2800XP's @266 FSB slightly cheaper than
>>the mobile 2500.
>
> You sure that isn't an estimated 'PR' rating, as in XP2000+? because
> even if it was working 'full speed' it wouldn't be 2Ghz on a 266FSB,,
> it would be 1.867GHz.
No thats what bios reports on boot and the following command indicates the
same
k7s5a albert # cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 6
model : 10
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 1991.750
cache size : 512 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 pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse pni syscall mp mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 3948.54