What's the fastest processor that I can put in my A7V8X ?

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What's the fastest processor that this motherboard will support?
ASUS A7V8X ?
(Currently running Athlon XP 2200+)
 
I'm asking myself the same question, since I have the same board and I would
like to upgrade to XP2800+. But ... I don't have the yellow sticker ... so I
can't use Barton processors ? This sucks ...
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The fastest chip for that board officially (no mods or hacking) would be
an AXDA2600DKV3C (133x16). If you can adjust the FSB on your board to
say 140MHz you'd be looking at 2240MHz. ;p

If you decide to go for a 2600+ just make sure you order the right one,
AXDA2600DKV3C 2600+ 2133MHz (133x16.0)
AXDA2600DKV3D 2600+ 2083MHz (166x12.5)
AXDA2800DKV4D 2600+ 1917MHz (166x11.5) Barton

Cheers,
Ed
 
I'm asking myself the same question, since I have the same board and I would
like to upgrade to XP2800+. But ... I don't have the yellow sticker ... so I
can't use Barton processors ? This sucks ...
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That's what I want to upgrade to, the 2800+.

Where is this "yellow sticker" supposed to be? (Where is the South
Bridge?)
 
That's what I want to upgrade to, the 2800+.

Where is this "yellow sticker" supposed to be? (Where is the South
Bridge?)
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Never mind .... found it. (Amazing what manuals do!) It's not a
yellow sticker, it's red and white on mine.

Thanks ....
 
singa_lvr said:
Never mind .... found it. (Amazing what manuals do!) It's not a
yellow sticker, it's red and white on mine.

Thanks ....
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Lucky you, I don't have one ... I always seem to buy non-upgradable
motherboards ;-(
 
Lucky you, I don't have one ... I always seem to buy non-upgradable
motherboards ;-(
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Don't feel bad. This is a first for me. I'm usually in your boat.

Maybe 2004 will be a good year, heh?
 
Time to get a ASUS A7N8X Deluxe!!!
This is probably the best mobo I have ever used!
ASUS provides flashes to meet tomorrow's technologies on these mobos'
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CPU:
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Barton
CPU Clock Speed 2017.1 MHz (over clocked)
Clock multiplier x 11.5
Front Side Bus Frequency 175.4 MHz
Bus Speed 350.8 MHz

Mainboard and chipset:
Motherboard manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Motherboard model A7N8X, REV 1.xx
BIOS vendor Phoenix Technologies, LTD
BIOS revision ASUS A7N8X Deluxe ACPI BIOS Rev 1007
BIOS release date 10/08/2003
Chipset nVidia nForce2 SPP rev. A2
Southbridge nVidia nForce2 MCP rev. A3
Sensor chip Asus ASB100

AGP Status enabled, rev. 3.0
AGP Data Transfert Rate 8x
AGP Side Band Addressing supported, not enabled
AGP Aperture Size 64 MBytes

Memory
DRAM Type DDR-SDRAM
DRAM Size 1024 MBytes
DRAM Frequency 175.4 MHz
FSB:DRAM 1:1
CAS# Latency 3.0 clocks
RAS# to CAS# 3 clocks
RAS# Precharge 3 clocks
Cycle Time (TRAS) 7 clocks
# of memory modules 2
Module 0 Wintec Industries DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512 MBytes
Module 1 Wintec Industries DDR-SDRAM PC3200 - 512 MBytes
Max bandwidth PC3200 (200 MHz)
 
singha_lvr said:
Any chance that this board will ever support even faster processors?
(Is there a technical limitation to it doing so?)
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I think that the fastest front side bus supported by the A7N8X is 200
MHz. As long as processor speed bumps allow you to use the same bus
protocols and speeds, and the BIOS can be updated to allow the
appropriate multipliers and voltages to be set, then you can probably
use the same mobo with faster chips. However, most of the time the
money is in the new design, not speed-ups of old designs. So, I would
expect AMD to place their immediate focus on Athlon 64, rather than
speeding up the "old" chips.

arnie
 
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