brak

ok, i built my PC about 4 years ago, it's got an athlon 1.2Ghz socket 462/socket A.
the motherboard is an asus A7V133 200/266 FSB.

if i buy a 1.8GHz duron socket A 266FSB (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...2E16819104160), can i put in it with no probs ?

kenton

Get the latest BIOS and it'll work just fine. If you don't get the newest BIOS it might throw up like:

CPU Type: Unknown AMD 1800MHz

dE.fUsEd

don't see the point. you aren't going to notice much of a difference at all.

Samson

:werd:

that is, unless its free of course.

sherwood

memory upgrade > * that is unless your computer rarely goes above 50% useage

brak

im at 384MB for memory right now, ive tried putting more in, but it seems whenever i put a DIMM in the third bank, the computer just starts crashing after windows is on for a minute or so, it's odd. the memory matches (all PC133).

i think the motherboard is messed up, the keyboard and mouse ports dont work (i use USB kb and mouse), im just trying to get as much life as i can out of it before building a whole new comp. dont have the cash for that at the moment. the new 1.8GHz CPU is only like $43. maybe a new video card would help, this one is only 32MB.

dE.fUsEd

PC133 :eek3:

Cunningam

As in PC133 SDRAM as used by this board.

http://www.ocworkbench.com/hardware/...3/a7v133p1.htm

The chip operates on a DDR principle internally (133/266), that's why it's so fast. The same for Duron 1800 which is faster by 600MHz than that Thunderbird-C in question. Aside from the reduced L2 cache, the Duron 1800MHz runs the core at a faster speed than the Athlon XP 2100+ (Palomino), which is 1733MHz. You also get SSE support; apps that use such instructions show significant increases in speed not to mention the Intel-beating FPU performance.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...spx?i=1927&p=1

Athlon is good but there are price, availability and compatibility issues to iron out.

However if the user wants to also run 3D games then the graphics card is critical.

A slow hard drive will also hinder performance.

Cunningam

Brak,

Hi.

What software do you wish to run..anything specific, or are you after a general upgrade? What kind of apps do you run?

Thanks.

dE.fUsEd

haha thanks for the lesson on PC 133 ....i had NO IDEA what it was.