hi,
I'm pretty sure the following plan is a fairly safe-bet, but I respect the members of this community - so was hoping that someone could just share their 2 cents (or whatever currency you chose ) as to any potential problems:
Current setup:
AMD Athlon 700mhz Thunderbird (200mhz FSB)
288mb PC100 generic RAM (2x 128mb + 1x 32mb)
Gigabyte GA-7ZM KT133 motherboard*
250w standard PSU (came with the case!)
*details on mobo available here:
<A HREF="http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/products/7zm.htm" target="_new">http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/products/7zm.htm</A>
the proposed plan:
1.4ghz Athlon Thunderbird, 266mhz FSB (not in the XP range)
256mb PC133 RAM (change of RAM to match the new processor)
the two important questions:
<b>1.</b> quote from the above motherboard page: <i>"Supports 500MHz ~ 1GHz and faster"</i>, I cant find any concrete documentation regarding what multipliers are available (10x on a 133mhz FSB will just about do!)... Is it likely that my current MOBO will handle the 1.4ghz Athlon?
<b>2.</b> PSU - I have a 250w PSU, I run a USB cd writer occasionally and 2 HDD's; nothing else particularly power-hungry. will the 250w be okay with the 1.4ghz processor?
any comments are greatly appreciated!!
regards,
Jack;
I'm pretty sure the following plan is a fairly safe-bet, but I respect the members of this community - so was hoping that someone could just share their 2 cents (or whatever currency you chose ) as to any potential problems:
Current setup:
AMD Athlon 700mhz Thunderbird (200mhz FSB)
288mb PC100 generic RAM (2x 128mb + 1x 32mb)
Gigabyte GA-7ZM KT133 motherboard*
250w standard PSU (came with the case!)
*details on mobo available here:
<A HREF="http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/products/7zm.htm" target="_new">http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/products/7zm.htm</A>
the proposed plan:
1.4ghz Athlon Thunderbird, 266mhz FSB (not in the XP range)
256mb PC133 RAM (change of RAM to match the new processor)
the two important questions:
<b>1.</b> quote from the above motherboard page: <i>"Supports 500MHz ~ 1GHz and faster"</i>, I cant find any concrete documentation regarding what multipliers are available (10x on a 133mhz FSB will just about do!)... Is it likely that my current MOBO will handle the 1.4ghz Athlon?
<b>2.</b> PSU - I have a 250w PSU, I run a USB cd writer occasionally and 2 HDD's; nothing else particularly power-hungry. will the 250w be okay with the 1.4ghz processor?
any comments are greatly appreciated!!
regards,
Jack;