A7V future proof??

[ClawViper]

I bought this MB about 3 months ago, and already it's old news. I knew this was gonna happen, but i bought this board in hope that it would be compatible with the next Socket A cpu release.

Will it even work with the 266MHz fsb Athlons out there? Or will Amd continue shipping 200mhz fsb Cpu also?

The A7V have a max multiplier of 12.5, so how could i even make a 1.3GHz cpu work on this board without going out of specs on the fsb? Someone please help!

Can i upgrade to a faster cpu in the future?

[SonicWind]

Not if the new CPU uses a new socket

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[AMD_Forever]

A bios update MAY let the A7V use the higher multipliers of 13+, but I'm sceptical. Also, it will run a 266FSB chip of course, but only at 200Mhz FSB, thus resulting in your needing to change the mulitplier to get the default speed.

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[Chrogg]

So that's a no really then... Damn. My PCs only 3 months old and already it's dated.

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[ClawViper]

So let me do some math...
Ok.. Say i buy a Athlon C 1333MHz chip and try to run it in my mb. That cpu is built to run at 10x133, and would result in 266fsb and 133MHz ram. If i would take the chip and plug it into my mb, run auto on cpu speed and fsb, it wouldn't even boot, Right? And if i would max my system out the perhaps best speed i could get out of it would be 12.5x113.. Resulting in max 1412MHz. Not enough to justify a upgrade from the 1130MHz i already got..

On the multiplier dipswitches there are 6 that can be changed but only the 1-4 of those is used in the manual for 5x to 12.5x.. What do the other two (5-6) do? Are they for future cpus?

If i could change my multiplier to say 14x, then everything would be great since the performance is not that big between A7V w 133MHz ram and A7V133.

Perhaps the next Athlon core will use those? Else the maximum for the athlon on 133MHz fsb will be 1666MHz.

[bigdog77s]

it's not dated by any means.. that bard should hold a nice 1.3 andthat is about top of line now, and will run anything made mostlikey for next 2 years.. just the 2nd year it'll seem slow with othe 2.0+ out

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[quadpuss]

The future is Now!!!!
There is no such thing as what you say.
As what ATI also said......
By the time the bios and the drivers matured there goes another model......I wonder if it can support 200Giga....
Your not planning to give yourgrandchild yar A7V in the year 2050, do you??? LOL

[yunez]

Originally posted by ClawViper:
On the multiplier dipswitches there are 6 that can be changed but only the 1-4 of those is used in the manual for 5x to 12.5x.. What do the other two (5-6) do?

5 and 6, when switched to ON, means "enable multiplier adjustment"

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