KT7A-Raid Overclocking, my experience!

[Guest]

I just got the Abit KT7A-RAID, and have now run it through it paces. A note for those who might read differing information on the AMD processors and the FSB. I have a Duron 700 and TBird 900, and I have been able to run these CPU's at 140mhz FSB no problems. These are not the "C" models, just the standard "B" CPU, unlocked with L1's. Overclockers.com has a bunch of information on their site regarding the FSB and CPU not being able to overclock due to FSB and multiplier settings, I had no problems. I moved the FSB bus around to several different combos with good results. As for 3DMark2000, I did not see any real improvement, highest score 8066, but with Sandra Memory benchmarks, of course they were up, as well as CPU benchmarks. I don't see any huge increase in performance, but I was able to run my CPU up to 1066mhz, compared to 1050mhz as my previous highest clock speed with stability. 1066mhz was achieved with 133x8, where as 1050mhz was 105x10 or 140x7.5. The 140mhz FSB gave me the highest results on all tests and was completely stable. What do you all think?

 

[TheSandman]

That mobo is based on the KT133A chipset a new revision of the KT133 that is fully capable of 133fsb official and well above that unofficialy the old revision was not capable of 133 or even near 133. It has never been about the procesor not being able.

SANDMAN

 

[Guest]

Yes, Thanks for that, but I was making the post because I have seen many posts here that people had thought it was the CPU, not the motherboard because of AMD releasing the "C" series ship set to a 133hz FSB with a lower multiplier.

 

[JOJO]

hey,

thanks for the info.

i'm trying to decide whether to go ddr or kt133a.
'today' i seem to be leaning towards kt133a.

i also was gonna recycle my tb800.

although, I was thinking of getting the a7v133 instead of the kt7a.

although the kt7a has raid which is cool, the a7v133 did a little better in tom's review. What are your thought's on that? (they were small margins, but the asus had alot of 1st places and the rest were 2nd or 3rd i believe)

I also thought i saw that the a7v133 promise chip supports raid 0... is that the stripping one?

 

[TheSandman]

Both boards are very good and the performance differance will probably not be noticable. Yes raid 0 is striping. I personaly would get the A7V133.

SANDMAN

 

[Guest]

I like the Asus A7v133 board as well, but have used Abit boards for the past four computers, and decided to stay with them for now. I personally like the BIOS setup options within the Abit board, but Asus has good BIOS options as well. I really boiled down to which was available first, and the KT7A-Raid was first from MWave.com.