XP-M 2500+ ON K7S5A? Anyone tried this combo???

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Read the following report on the XP-M 2500+

http://tech-report.com/reviews/2004q1/athlonxp-m-2500/index.x?pg=1

Was thinking this might be a nice upgrade for one of my K7S5A's.

Front side bus is 266.

 

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It will work, but that CPU's potential is wasted on a K7S5A. Try to dig
up money for an Nforce2 board and a good heatsink.

Ernst (spamthis@canadian.com) wrote:

: Read the following report on the XP-M 2500+

: http://tech-report.com/reviews/2004q1/athlonxp-m-2500/index.x?pg=1

: Was thinking this might be a nice upgrade for one of my K7S5A's.

: Front side bus is 266.

 

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On Thu, 1 Apr 2004 11:15:14 +0000 (UTC), aa356@chebucto.ns.ca (Brian
Campbell) wrote:

>It will work, but that CPU's potential is wasted on a K7S5A. Try to dig
>up money for an Nforce2 board and a good heatsink.
>
>Ernst (spamthis@canadian.com) wrote:
>
>: Read the following report on the XP-M 2500+
>
>: http://tech-report.com/reviews/2004q1/athlonxp-m-2500/index.x?pg=1
>
>: Was thinking this might be a nice upgrade for one of my K7S5A's.
>
>: Front side bus is 266.

If it does the same thing on a K7S5A that it did on my DFI nForce
board, and others have seen it too, it'll run with a very low
multiplier for something around 800 MHz on a 133 MHz (266) FSB.

Now, it could be that since my DFI CAN set the multiplier that it
behaved differently than a K7S5A would but it's something to check
into before you fork over the bucks.