KX7-333

Spinal · Jul 11, 2003

Is anyone using a KX7-333 with an Athlon XP 2600 Tbred, with the 166Mhz (333Mhz) fsb and 333MHz DDR Ram. Or know if they will work on this board

Jason Wright · Jul 11, 2003

In article , Spinal
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Is anyone using a KX7-333 with an Athlon XP 2600 Tbred, with the 166Mhz (333Mhz) fsb and 333MHz DDR Ram. Or know if they will work on this board

According to Abit the KX7-333 board does not support 166 FSB Processors, also you need to check which revision of the board you have got, version
1.0 does not support Thoroughbred processors, version 1.1 does.

The revision is located on a sticker on the underside of the board.

I can sent you a text file I received from Abit UK when I emailed them the same sort of question.

I told them I was disappointed that this board does not support 166 FSB CPU's and got this response.

You think the KT333 chipset can support 166FSb CPU is not correct as this

KT333 only provides 166FSB on memory bus, not CPU. Same as Kt400 only supports 200FSB on memory, the CPU will be only 166.

Do you know any mainboard that uses KT333 chipset and support 166FSB CPU?

I sent them a link to Via's web page that clearly stated that the KT333 chipset supports 166 FSB and links to several motherboard manufactures web pages with board that do support 166 FSB.

http://www.via.com.tw/en/apollo/KT333.jsp

I got no reply.

Hope this is of some use.

rogueflyer · Jul 11, 2003

I have a KX7R w/ Athlon 2600+ fsb166. The CPU post as 2075mhz not 2600+ but WinXP and Sandra see it correctly. Runs great no problems with configuration. Don't know why Abit refuses to update the bios to identify the cpu's correctly.

"Spinal" wrote:

Is anyone using a KX7-333 with an Athlon XP 2600 Tbred, with the 166Mhz (333Mhz) fsb and 333MHz DDR Ram. Or know if they will work on this board

Helge Johnsen · Jul 11, 2003

"Spinal" skrev i melding

Is anyone using a KX7-333 with an Athlon XP 2600 Tbred, with the 166Mhz (333Mhz) fsb and 333MHz DDR Ram. Or know if they will work on this board

Rev 1.1
Running a XP2100 @ 177MHz X 13 using the 5:2:1 divider. Works great. Pretty sure a XP2600 will work on this board.

Helge

- HAL9000 · Jul 12, 2003

Jason,

You have to realize that official 166 MHz FSB cpu's were not around when the kx7 was developed. Also, that abit doesn't want to spend the money to go back and test these new cpu's with what they consider an "old" board. Then after the tests pass say "the kx7 officially supports these new cpu's". It's just too expensive for all the different boards they sell. For them, what is important is the most recently released mobo's, such as the kv7, nf7, & ic7.

If those around here claim that it works, that's the best confirmation you can expect to get...

Forrest

Motherboard Help By HAL web site:
http://home.attbi.com/~hal-9000/

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 19:51:40 +0100, Jason Wright
wrote:

In article , Spinal
writes
Is anyone using a KX7-333 with an Athlon XP 2600 Tbred, with the 166Mhz
(333Mhz) fsb and 333MHz DDR Ram. Or know if they will work on this board

According to Abit the KX7-333 board does not support 166 FSB Processors, also you need to check which revision of the board you have got, version
1.0 does not support Thoroughbred processors, version 1.1 does.

The revision is located on a sticker on the underside of the board.

...

Mark (83) · Jul 12, 2003

Yes,runs fine.Had to clear cmos 2/3 times for initial boot,since then no problems. need ver 1.1 board. God luck,Mark. "Spinal" wrote:

Is anyone using a KX7-333 with an Athlon XP 2600 Tbred, with the 166Mhz (333Mhz) fsb and 333MHz DDR Ram. Or know if they will work on this board

Adrian · Jul 13, 2003

I have 1700+@2600+ and it works fine

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Yes,runs fine.Had to clear cmos 2/3 times for initial boot,since then no problems. need ver 1.1 board. God luck,Mark. "Spinal" wrote:

Is anyone using a KX7-333 with an Athlon XP 2600 Tbred, with the 166Mhz (333Mhz) fsb and 333MHz DDR Ram. Or know if they will work on this

board

Jason Wright · Jul 13, 2003

In article , - HAL9000
writes

Jason,

You have to realize that official 166 MHz FSB cpu's were not around when the kx7 was developed. Also, that abit doesn't want to spend the money to go back and test these new cpu's with what they consider an "old" board. Then after the tests pass say "the kx7 officially supports these new cpu's". It's just too expensive for all the different boards they sell. For them, what is important is the most recently released mobo's, such as the kv7, nf7, & ic7.

If those around here claim that it works, that's the best confirmation you can expect to get... ...

I know that 166 FSB CPU's were not around when the KX7 was released, but version 1.0 of the board does not support thoroughbred CPU's at all even the 133 FSB one's.

My main problem is that I have a 2000+ installed in the board and can't upgrade it with out sending the board to Abit for free modifications. I have heard several stories of people sending the boards to Abit to be modified and never seeing them again, Abit claiming that they must of got lost in the post.