Sempron on A7N266-VM

A client's Athlon XP 1800+ CPU died the other day.
She doesn't need anything more powerful and XPs in
any speed are becoming rare in my part of the world,
so I thought I'd replace it with a Sempron 2200+.
Since the A7N266-VM motherboard has a max FSB
of 133/266, I expect the Sempron will plod along at
roughly 1800+ speed.

Are there any pitfalls that I have to watch out for ?
And is there a better alternative ?

The BIOS version is 1003, and in view of the modest
performance requirement, I'm not eager to undertake
a flash with its attendant risks. That is, unless there's
some significant gain to be had.

Thanks in advance for any input.

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 02:16:26 +0530, "Zotin Khuma"
wrote:


Are there any pitfalls that I have to watch out for ?
And is there a better alternative ?

I dont think so. I bought an AMD 64 recently (still waiting for all
the parts for my system so I havent run it yet) and Im using a 1 gig
Athlon - my first athlon I ever bought. Its surprisingly OK to use as
long as I dont do anything really taxing like lots of WINRAR
compression and other compression , video stuff. In fact I actually
did use DVD decryptor and DVD2one with no problems though the DVD2one
took about 8-10min longer than my old 3200 system. I think a 1800-2000
system is perfectly fine for many people as long as they arent cutting
edge gamers and into specialized graphics, video etc.

The BIOS version is 1003, and in view of the modest
performance requirement, I'm not eager to undertake
a flash with its attendant risks. That is, unless there's
some significant gain to be had.

They always say dont do it unless theres a real problem and the new
bios claims to fix that problem. However Ive only had a problem 2
times when flashing a zillion times and that was on oddball system
where I confused the wrong bios file and flashed it. Ive done the
really windows based ASUS update flashers and ABIT ones lots of times
though people really think those are "dangerous" with no problems.