WHAT TO PUT ON A7V

Yes, the multipliers stop at 12.5 on the a7v, I'm not sure if you can set them higher, it may be in a BIOS update if anything...

And yes, you can put a 266 bus chip in a 200 bus board and it will run 25% slower (.25*133=33Mhz difference as in 100/133 CPU clock) I would recommend getting the 1.3Ghz (13x100) Chip and clocking it at 12.5*100=1250Mhz. If you are not afraid, you could up the bus to a stable 105 and run the CPU at 1312Mhz.

Get the chip, and in 12 months when it's too old, you can buy a new motherboard.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-Einstein

Because it is going to be harder to clock the 1.2 up to above 1.3.
It would not be underclocking, it would be overclocking, just using higher bus and a lower multiplier, just like any large overclocking of Athlon B (200Mhz) CPUs.

But either way would work, it's just sometimes harder to get a 1200 up to 1312...

We're giving him some options though...


Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-Einstein

Ok thanks guys you've been a great help. I did hear that if you set the multipliers to 12.5 and put say a 1.3ghz chip on the board it would actually run at 1.3ghz. Something to do with the chips real speed being 'recognised' and used. Whether this is true or not I've no idea. Pethaps I will just get a 1.3 ghz and upgrade to Palomino or something later on.

Is that so?? Can you tell me how you set up your motherboard?? Like what multiplier settings did you use when you put the chip in??? Did you have to update the bios to be able to do it??? Surely you can't just shove the cpu in and it runs at the chips specified speed?????

OK, I had problems with one of my posts where I chcecked if people know if it is possible to put 1.3Ghz on A7V, they all said NO! but before I posted this question I already was running 1.3Ghz (I have another 800Mhz Athlon too). I just went to www.pricewatch.com and bought the cheapest 1.3ghz Athlon and put it on my A7V and it recognized it and just worked! I didn't use ay switches or anything like that. I was warned that I will be responsible if someone will get 1.3ghz on A7V and it won't work! so..ah your choice, if it won't work - NOT MY FAULT! but I risked and have a good result. U can still go with 1.2Ghz and be SURE it will work. so decide for yourself!