Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:37:02 10/09/02
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On October 09, 2002 at 12:35:31, Shaun Brewer wrote: >On October 09, 2002 at 10:43:56, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>On October 09, 2002 at 07:10:26, Shaun Brewer wrote: >> >>>I have just upgraded on of my machines from a TBird 850 to XP2000+ CPU change >>>only. >>> >>>I am happy with the result inexpensive and effective 2x performance for chess. >>> >>>I have done some comparisons with 2 friends machines they both have XP2000+ >>>processors but with DDR ram I wanted to see what benefit this gave them. >>> >>>My machine KT133A (ABIT KT7A) chipset SDRAM cas 2 >>> >> >> >>I have the same motherboard (the -RAID version), but I cannot upgrade to the >>Athlon XP according to Abit's web site. It's because my motherboard is an early >>revision, I understand. What revision of the KT7A is yours? > >Roy, > >My board is a - KT7A(-RAID) just left that off as same basic board, and revision >1.0, and yes according to Abit's web site the Althlon XP is not supported except >on revision 1.3 - i.e. if it does not work its bad luck. > >I had read on various discussion databases that people were not having problems >and 2 friends one with the RAID and one with the non-raid versions had >successfully installed a XP1900+ and a XP1800+. > Wow!! Thank you for this great piece of information! I think you just made my day! >The manual stated that 12.5 x 133 was supported so I thoght I would risk it. > >The PC is 100% stable so far and has run various bench marking burn in tests and >is currently running a match between Crafty and Ruffian this has been running >for several days. > >You will need to flash your bios I am using kt7a9 from Abit's site make sure you >use the one for correct revision. > >Warning: > >You can write off your motherboard during a bios flash - a power cut or corrupt >boot disk could be fatal. > >I might have been lucky > >You will have to manually set up the CPU in the BIOS (from memory it was 12above >for the CPU multiplier) got me worried as I expected 12.5. > >A good web site: > >http://www.sudhian.com/faqs.cfm/fid/2.sud > >I am very happy I picked up the XP2000+ for a reasonable price and I have >doubled my performance (relative to chess or at least the programs I have >measured). Crafty and Tiger 14. > >If you give it a go good luck. Thank you VERY much!
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