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14 February 2003, 04:13 AM
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Maybe able to, But dont forget your front side bus,either 200 0r 266mhz, just check the site of who makes ya motherboard like the other chap said, im running a Gigabyte 7ZXR but it runs at 200 front side bus so upgrading to a amdxp is out of the question,i think,hope this helps, God look at the time i must be Mad 
14 February 2003, 07:19 AM
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14 February 2003, 09:03 AM
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Just get it over and done with and open up the side of the machine. Have a hunt for the manu and model number on the mobo and go look on their website.
14 February 2003, 01:31 PM
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Yup, if you are intending to put in a new chip, you're going to have to open her up anyway, so do it now. Look for identifying model numbers on the baord, and then search the web.
If you are using one of the big name brands' machines then it'll be a generic motherboard made by one of the big manufacturers, its just a case of finding out which one.
If you are using one of the big name brands' machines then it'll be a generic motherboard made by one of the big manufacturers, its just a case of finding out which one.
14 February 2003, 05:50 PM
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Try here. That page suggests you're limited to Thunderbird Athlons (i.e. max = 1.4GHz). It's a Via KT133 chipset, which IIRC doesn't support Palomino chips (it's successor the KT133A can do).
14 February 2003, 09:20 PM
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The KT133A chipset itself can support Palomino core cpu's, such as the XP chips, however, not that alone can make a motherboard compatable with them.
15 February 2003, 10:51 AM
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Why buy a new pc?, you could get a decent motherboard with an 1800 Athlon for less than £100!! (individually both under £50)
check out dabs, ebuyer, scan etc for components.
check out dabs, ebuyer, scan etc for components.
15 February 2003, 02:08 PM
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If your RAM is already PC133 and half decent stuff, then you could get a Gigabyte GA-7ZXE. The current versions of this mobo take upto XP2600+ (266fsb) cpu's and they absolutely fly, especially for their price! Does £44 sound good for a new mobo? Hell yes when it is as good as one of these. Apart from the on little niggle which only applies to overclockers, where you cannot really overclock with this board, it is the fastest I have ever used in it's class for stock systems.
Like I said, only if you have half decent PC133 SDRAM, give it a serious look. Have built quite a few machines with these boards and none have disappointed.
Cheers,
Nick
[Edited by Mr Footlong - 2/15/2003 2:08:48 PM]
Like I said, only if you have half decent PC133 SDRAM, give it a serious look. Have built quite a few machines with these boards and none have disappointed.
Cheers,
Nick
[Edited by Mr Footlong - 2/15/2003 2:08:48 PM]
19 February 2003, 05:10 PM
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Just to raise this from the depths, any recommended suppliers for the Gigabyte boards and CPU ? (Scan are only down the road, but they don't do 'em).
Also, couple of quick questions:
a) when you shut down a (for example) Linux system running on them, do they auto power-off, or do you physically have to knock the power off ?
b) are we past the days of mobo's having limitations with regards the max size hard drive they'll recognise ?
Reason for asking is that the last machine I bothered building was an AMD K6-2/450 jobbie, and it doesn't auto power down or want to work with drives bigger than 30Gb
Also, couple of quick questions:
a) when you shut down a (for example) Linux system running on them, do they auto power-off, or do you physically have to knock the power off ?
b) are we past the days of mobo's having limitations with regards the max size hard drive they'll recognise ?
Reason for asking is that the last machine I bothered building was an AMD K6-2/450 jobbie, and it doesn't auto power down or want to work with drives bigger than 30Gb
19 February 2003, 06:25 PM
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Got all of mine from here:
http://www.dabs.com/products/prod-se...d=asc&stab=ref
Every one has been the very latest revision of board.
No idea about the linux, but from memory I had no problems with Mandrake 8 shutting one of these down. Win x certainly has no problems at all with proper power management on these.
1 bit of advice, personally, I would gently remove the chipset heatsink and remove the nasty thermal double sided sellotape stuff, clean both the chipset controller and heatsink with ipa and then spread a light layer of thermal compound onto the chipset controller. Refit the heatsink and
Cheers,
Nick
http://www.dabs.com/products/prod-se...d=asc&stab=ref
Every one has been the very latest revision of board.
No idea about the linux, but from memory I had no problems with Mandrake 8 shutting one of these down. Win x certainly has no problems at all with proper power management on these.
1 bit of advice, personally, I would gently remove the chipset heatsink and remove the nasty thermal double sided sellotape stuff, clean both the chipset controller and heatsink with ipa and then spread a light layer of thermal compound onto the chipset controller. Refit the heatsink and
Cheers,
Nick
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