ASUS A7V133 CPU Speeds

[bronden]

Can anyone tell me if the ASUS A7V133 motherboard will run an AMD Athlon XP 2000Mhz CPU with a BIOS update from the original BIOS. If it will what BIOS version do I need and where can I get it from?

 

[mechBgon]

Welcome to the Forums, bronden

To start out with, realize that there are three variants of the AthlonXP 2000+: the original Palomino, the Thoroughbred, and now the Thornton. So you can see this is going to get complicated fast Boards may support none, one, two, or all three variants of 2000+.

Looking at Asus' CPU-support thingie, it appears that the board only supports the old Palomino version of the AthlonXP 2000+, probably due to voltage-regulator limitations (the newer cores use lower voltages). To determine if you have a Palomino (assuming you now have a 2000+ that you want to try), here is a comparison of the Palomino compared to the Thoroughbred: link

The key thing to look at is the size and shape of the CPU core in the middle there. As you can see, the Palomino's core is nearly square while the Thoroughbred is rather rectangular. The Thornton is even more rectangular than the Thoroughbred, and would look just like the Barton you can see here (a Thornton is a Barton with half its L2 cache switched off, so their core shape is the same).

Hope that helps you out... if you want to get a Palomino at this point, the For Sale & Trade section of the Forums could help you snag one

 

[JonB]

I have had an XP2100+ in this board for almost a year. That is as high as ASUS says it will go.

It was my main computer, now the processor will be moving to my son's computer.
He had to agree to run SETI full time to get the processor.

I paid $70 for the cpu back in May and it was out of stock many places since it is the fastest of its design series for the ASUS A7V133 and others with that chipset.

 

[bronden]

Thanks JonB & mechBgone for the info. I've already got an Athlon XP 2000 CPU which was given to me. I'm running an Athlon XP 1200 at the moment in the ASUS A7V133 and have had no problems. I was just curious if the 2000 CPU would run or if the board neede a BIOS Update. I went on the ASUS site a couple of times and found that some of the links didn't work so I will try again.

Thanks again for your help.

 

[Luthien]

Your A7V133 will have to be revision 1.05. that is exactly with the "." after the number 5 ! It wont work otherwise. I just ordered and 2100 XP myself and cant wait to see if it works since I have the correct revision on only one of my two A7V133 boards.

 

[Peter]

You guys need to be careful here - boards limited to "2100+" most of the time are actually limited to the older "Palomino" core Athlon-XP that topped out at 2100+, while unable to run the later Thoroughbred, Barton and Thorton core processors - which are available at lower speeds too, but that doesn't make them compatible with such a board.

 

[cisco]

gonna chime in here for some help. I've been trying to get a palamino 1900 to work on an A7V133 ,
just flashed from 1001c to 1009 and still won't boot, should it boot with jumper free settings?
or do i need to manually adjust the coltage, freq, etc.??
I gonna search some more and also Ck the version of the board since someone here mention version 1.05 or higher needed. (gotta find that flashlight now where did I put that?)
thanks for any help here , got a lan party here tommorrow gotta get these going