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Old July 25th 04, 05:03 PM
Jonh Hellingsworth
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Hello

I have a Asus A7333 Motherboard
Athlon XP 2500
512mb PC 2700 333DR mem
MSI FX 5600 graphics card

I'm keeping the Asus A7333, and upgrading to

Athlon XP 3000
1gb PC 2700 333 DDR
PNY FX 5950 Ultra 256mb

My current system is running on bios 1017
Do I need to cahange the bios setting to accomodate the XP 3000?

Thanks
John Hellingsworth




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Old July 26th 04, 03:43 PM
Todd Brooks
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Hi,

I assume you mean A7V333. I have this board as well. On the website you can
see info on BIOS revisions and CPU support. From the website, Athlon XP
3000+(333 MHZ FSB)(Model 10)(Barton) is supported since BIOS revision 1016:

http://www.asus.com.tw/support/cpusu...pusupport.aspx

HTH

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Hello

I have a Asus A7333 Motherboard
Athlon XP 2500
512mb PC 2700 333DR mem
MSI FX 5600 graphics card

I'm keeping the Asus A7333, and upgrading to

Athlon XP 3000
1gb PC 2700 333 DDR
PNY FX 5950 Ultra 256mb

My current system is running on bios 1017
Do I need to cahange the bios setting to accomodate the XP 3000?

Thanks
John Hellingsworth






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Old July 26th 04, 11:23 PM
kony
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On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:43:52 -0400, "Todd Brooks"
wrote:

Hi,

I assume you mean A7V333. I have this board as well. On the website you can
see info on BIOS revisions and CPU support. From the website, Athlon XP
3000+(333 MHZ FSB)(Model 10)(Barton) is supported since BIOS revision 1016:

http://www.asus.com.tw/support/cpusu...pusupport.aspx

HTH


Note on the support page that there are different PCB revisions.
As someone who has two earlier revisions, I note that stability
improved with 1.04 but particularly 2.0 with higher speed
Bartons. Although earlier revisions than 2.0 "appear" from their
chart to not support 166MHz (DDR333) FSB CPUs, the issues is
larger than that, as my 1.01 board had been running a T'Bred B @
166MHz FSB & Mem since day 1, but wasn't stable enough with a
Barton at same FSB speed even at same total frequency & voltage.

I like A7V333, but frankly I'd upgrade the motherboard before
upgrading an XP2500 to an XP3000. Although, I wouldn't buy
another socket A for just that small of a CPU upgrade, not cost
effective. Also consider that some users report bios v. 1016
more stable than 1017. At worst it might not report the AMD
nomenclature in "XP(nnnn)" speed, instead just displaying MHz,
though I expect even bios 1016 does include the XP(nnnn) ID,
which is part of the significance of it supporting the CPUs, as
that was AMD's goal, to display CPU name in bios instead of
frequency.
 




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