Which upgrade please advise

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I read that AMD have discontinued the Socket A Athlon so I thought I should
get my desktop PC upgraded before all stocks are gone.

1) Whats options do I have given that my FSB is 266Mhz and the CPU is
currently an 1800+.

2) The mobo is an K7T266 PRO and the manual says it only supports upto
1800+. Is that likely to be a hard limit or is it simply that when I got the
machine 1800+ was as fast as they came?

Thanks

Colin

 

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"CWatters" <colin.watters@pandoraBOX.be> wrote in message
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>I read that AMD have discontinued the Socket A Athlon so I thought I should
> get my desktop PC upgraded before all stocks are gone.
>
> 1) Whats options do I have given that my FSB is 266Mhz and the CPU is
> currently an 1800+.
>
> 2) The mobo is an K7T266 PRO and the manual says it only supports upto
> 1800+. Is that likely to be a hard limit or is it simply that when I got
> the
> machine 1800+ was as fast as they came?


Um, to the others in the group . . . how true is this?

I want to build an AMD Dually, but don't have the $$$ right now. IF the
chips are being discontinued then the board should drop in price, but the
chips should keep rising in price. (As this article explains)
http://www.overclockers.com/tips1097/

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LTP

"A cat, having jumped up on a hot stove, will never jump up on a hot stove
again. But then it won't jump up on a cold stove either." - Mark Twain

 

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Oops, SiSoft Sandra says I currently have a 1900+ not an 1800+ and that my
mobo supports upto 3GHz but how accurate is Sandra?....

Processor(s)
Model : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+
Co-Processor (FPU) : Built-in
Speed : 1.60GHz
Model Number : 1900 (estimated)
Performance Rating : PR2338 (estimated)
Type : Standard
Multiplier : 12x
Generation : 7th (7x86)
Model Information : Duron M6/MP & Athlon 4/MP/XP (Palomino) 1-1.8G 1.7-1.75V
Revision/Stepping : 6 / 2 (0)
Stepping Mask : A5

Caches
Internal Data Cache : 64kB synchronous write-back (2-way, 64 byte line size)
Internal Code Cache : 64kB synchronous write-back (2-way, 64 byte line size)
L2 On-board Cache : 256kB ECC synchronous write-back (16-way, 64 byte line
size)
L2 Cache Multiplier : 1/1x (equiv. 1598MHz)

Host Interface
Front Side Bus Speed : 2x 133MHz (266MHz data rate)

Mainboard Upgradeability
Socket/Slot : Socket-A
Upgrade Interface : Socket 462
Supported Speed(s) : 3.00GHz (or more)
Supported Voltage(s) : 3.3V, 2.9V

 

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On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:47:26 +0000, CWatters wrote:

> I read that AMD have discontinued the Socket A Athlon so I thought I should
> get my desktop PC upgraded before all stocks are gone.
>
> 1) Whats options do I have given that my FSB is 266Mhz and the CPU is
> currently an 1800+.
>
> 2) The mobo is an K7T266 PRO and the manual says it only supports upto
> 1800+. Is that likely to be a hard limit or is it simply that when I got the
> machine 1800+ was as fast as they came?
>
Athlon XP-M of your choice. All are Barton core /266 models (133MHz (not
266) FSB) and should work on your board. you may have to change some of
the bridges to get max speed of around 2400MHz out of it. This one should
work fine.

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-400&depa=0

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Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php
Verizon server http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.htm

 

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MSI's official CPU support list:

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_cpu_support_detail.php?UID=27&NAME=MS-6380&kind=1

If this is correct, the fastest CPU the board supports is an XP 2000+
Palomino series chip. I can't speak to another poster's claim that a mobile
CPU would work.

Regards,

Bob Knowlden

Address may be scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn.

"CWatters" <colin.watters@pandoraBOX.be> wrote in message
news:iOS5e.60104$5S6.4322410@phobos.telenet-ops.be...
>I read that AMD have discontinued the Socket A Athlon so I thought I should
> get my desktop PC upgraded before all stocks are gone.
>
> 1) Whats options do I have given that my FSB is 266Mhz and the CPU is
> currently an 1800+.
>
> 2) The mobo is an K7T266 PRO and the manual says it only supports upto
> 1800+. Is that likely to be a hard limit or is it simply that when I got
> the
> machine 1800+ was as fast as they came?
>
> Thanks
>
> Colin
>
>

 

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"Luc The Perverse" <sll_NOSPAM_zm@remove.cc.usu.edu> wrote in message
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> "CWatters" <colin.watters@pandoraBOX.be> wrote in message
> news:iOS5e.60104$5S6.4322410@phobos.telenet-ops.be...
> >I read that AMD have discontinued the Socket A Athlon so I thought I
should
> > get my desktop PC upgraded before all stocks are gone.
> >
> > 1) Whats options do I have given that my FSB is 266Mhz and the CPU is
> > currently an 1800+.
> >
> > 2) The mobo is an K7T266 PRO and the manual says it only supports upto
> > 1800+. Is that likely to be a hard limit or is it simply that when I got
> > the
> > machine 1800+ was as fast as they came?
>
>
> Um, to the others in the group . . . how true is this?

I'll try and find the magazine article.

I did note that Amazon in the UK seems to have marked all the 266 and 333
Mhx Socket A Athlons as "out of stock or discontinued"

 

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"CWatters" <colin.watters@pandoraBOX.be> wrote in message
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>
> I'll try and find the magazine article.
>

Here is one report but I'm sure I also saw a longer one....

Computer Shopper 207 May 2005 page 50

AMD Drops Athlon XP
AMD has finally dropped the Athlon XP
desktop processor. The chip was absent from
AMD's latest price sheet released in February,
and an AMD spokesperson confirmed thet the
chip had been discontinued. Stocks are still
available, which will prolong it's availability,
but there are no official estimates as to how
long they will last

 

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On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 20:57:53 -0400, Bob Knowlden wrote:

> MSI's official CPU support list:
>
> http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_cpu_support_detail.php?UID=27&NAME=MS-6380&kind=1
>
> If this is correct, the fastest CPU the board supports is an XP 2000+
> Palomino series chip. I can't speak to another poster's claim that a mobile
> CPU would work.
>
This may be a case where the board was so poorly designed that it won't
run the tbred/barton core without a mod. I thoiught Gigabyte was the
only one that required that, but I'm not sure. One thing is for certain,
it should work. And if it doesn't, the boards not wrth 2 cents. Even the
old KT133 boards will run tbred/barton cores and they only have a 100MHz
FSB. of course if you look at the cpu support list from Abit for the board
below, it list the old 1400B as the fastest the board will support.

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Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php
Verizon server http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.htm

 

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CWatters wrote:
> I read that AMD have discontinued the Socket A Athlon so I thought I
> should get my desktop PC upgraded before all stocks are gone.

Just use what you have and save-up for a whole new dealy. The new dealy
will be cheaper then, too. Then, just pawn-off your old parts to a friend or
relative for whom they would be perfectly adequate. That is an option and
that is my opinion.

 

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"Fishface" <invalid@ddress.ok?> wrote in message
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> CWatters wrote:
> > I read that AMD have discontinued the Socket A Athlon so I thought I
> > should get my desktop PC upgraded before all stocks are gone.
>
> Just use what you have and save-up for a whole new dealy. The new dealy
> will be cheaper then, too.

The problem is the rest of the system is over spec for what I need. The
graphics card hasn't seen any 3D for a year! What I'd like to do is just
prolong it's life until we know what Longhorn needs to make it fly, then
build a new machine for that.