Help me upgrade - what's fast enough

Running a 900mhz Tbird w/512 MB PC133 RAM on Abit KT7A running Win2K
This mobo will handle much faster CPU's. My question is how fast do I have
to go to see a noticeable difference in running business apps, viewing
digital photos, handling multiple apps, etc. Gaming is not an issue.
is a 1.5 ghz chip going to give me a substantial increase?
Thnx


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Nottoman wrote:

> Running a 900mhz Tbird w/512 MB PC133 RAM on Abit KT7A running Win2K
> This mobo will handle much faster CPU's. My question is how fast do I have
> to go to see a noticeable difference in running business apps, viewing
> digital photos, handling multiple apps, etc. Gaming is not an issue.
> is a 1.5 ghz chip going to give me a substantial increase?
> Thnx

Hmm, if your motherboard supports 133MHz FSB, it can *probably* take an Athlon
XP 2400+. I'm not sure how far you'd have to go to notice a difference (it
really depends on the program, though 1.5GHz probably wouldn't quite be a
quantum leap), but I can tell you the hard drive's speed is a much bigger
influence on launch times than the CPU. The difference from going from a
5200rpm hdd to a 7200rpm hdd with my Athlon 850MHz was chaulk and cheese.

What I'd do if it was my computer would be to flick the dip switches on the
motherboard to take the front side bus to 105MHz.

Did you mean flip the dip switches....150mhz?


"Io" <> wrote in message news:...
> Nottoman wrote:
>
> > Running a 900mhz Tbird w/512 MB PC133 RAM on Abit KT7A running Win2K
> > This mobo will handle much faster CPU's. My question is how fast do I
have
> > to go to see a noticeable difference in running business apps, viewing
> > digital photos, handling multiple apps, etc. Gaming is not an issue.
> > is a 1.5 ghz chip going to give me a substantial increase?
> > Thnx
>
> Hmm, if your motherboard supports 133MHz FSB, it can *probably* take an
Athlon
> XP 2400+. I'm not sure how far you'd have to go to notice a difference (it
> really depends on the program, though 1.5GHz probably wouldn't quite be a
> quantum leap), but I can tell you the hard drive's speed is a much bigger
> influence on launch times than the CPU. The difference from going from a
> 5200rpm hdd to a 7200rpm hdd with my Athlon 850MHz was chaulk and cheese.
>
> What I'd do if it was my computer would be to flick the dip switches on
the
> motherboard to take the front side bus to 105MHz.
>

Up to a 1400mhz will work fine.
most people have been able to run even faster cpus on the older versions
1.0-1.2
On version 1.3, should be able to run up to 1600-1800mhz (AMD PR 2000-2200)
Version number is listed on the side of the ISA slot (black colored)

KT7A help page
http://www.sudhian.com/showfaqs.cfm?fid=2


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> Running a 900mhz Tbird w/512 MB PC133 RAM on Abit KT7A running Win2K
> This mobo will handle much faster CPU's. My question is how fast do I
have
> to go to see a noticeable difference in running business apps, viewing
> digital photos, handling multiple apps, etc. Gaming is not an issue.
> is a 1.5 ghz chip going to give me a substantial increase?
> Thnx
>
>
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