Gateway KT133 Athlon rev2 upgrade?

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I recently was given an old Gateway Athlon 950MHz PC that seems to
work fine and I plan on using it as a second, backup PC. I'm curious
what is the maximum Athlon this VIA-based mainboard will support?
According to CPUz the chipset is a VIA KT133 revision 2 on a mainboard
made by Microstar, model MS-6330, BIOS version 0AAVWP13, BIOS date
06/26/2001. Currently it has a Socket 462 Thunderbird-based Athlon
running 950MHz, which would be a 100MHz FSB part with 133MHz PC133
SDRAM. Would this chipset accept 133MHz FSB athlons? I'm not so sure
about AXP support, but IIRC, some Thunderbird Athlons were released
with 133MHz FSB before AMD came out with XP in late 2001.

I also have some 256MB SDRAM DIMMS laying around that I could put into
that mainboard, though they are PC100 and not PC133.
 
I recently was given an old Gateway Athlon 950MHz PC that seems to
work fine and I plan on using it as a second, backup PC. I'm curious
what is the maximum Athlon this VIA-based mainboard will support?
According to CPUz the chipset is a VIA KT133 revision 2 on a mainboard
made by Microstar, model MS-6330, BIOS version 0AAVWP13, BIOS date
06/26/2001.
RTFM
http://msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K7T_Turbo_2&class=mb

Currently it has a Socket 462 Thunderbird-based Athlon
running 950MHz, which would be a 100MHz FSB part with 133MHz PC133
SDRAM. Would this chipset accept 133MHz FSB athlons? I'm not so sure
about AXP support, but IIRC, some Thunderbird Athlons were released
with 133MHz FSB before AMD came out with XP in late 2001.
Click to expand...
Supposedly you can go up to AXP 1800 (RTFM). Does the speed gain
warrant the price? You decide. My take on it - use As Is or spend on
something more up to date.
I also have some 256MB SDRAM DIMMS laying around that I could put into
that mainboard, though they are PC100 and not PC133.
Click to expand...

Will work with your current CPU just fine, maybe even a bit faster
because RAM at 100 will run in synch with CPU. If you still decide to
upgrade CPU to one of 133 fsb, this would hobble it in 2 ways (slower
+ asynch).

NNN
 
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