I'm currently running an athlon 1.33Ghz o/c at (1.43Ghz 130x11) on my classic Asus A7V motherboard with 1011 BIOS and rev 1.05. I'm just wondering if I can put in an athlon XP or something like that? If so, what core does it support? Palmino? Tbred-A? Tbred-B? Barton???? Thx... TMP-Man GOT TMP?

Oh by the way, my motherboard is Asus A7V classic KT133 chipset. It run max at 130Mhz FSB and have mutliplier max of 14x... So I think it will max out at 1.8Ghz. Also, I checked this website. =========================================== http://www.a7vtroubleshooting.com/info/cpu/index.htm =========================================== It said the Asus A7V does not support 133Mhz Athlon, my athlon is 133mhz FSB T-bird 1.33Ghz. I can't run it at 133Mhz, but it runs 100% stable at 130Mhz. So will the athlon xp work in this motherboard since I can run 130mhz FSB? If so, which athlon xp do you recommand? TMP-Man GOT TMP?

Not worth it IMO, if you really want to upgrade get a new motherboard to go with a new CPU. -- Always do what you are afraid to do --

I agree with Sabertooth...it's not worth it. You posted the link yourself - your board does not support any XP CPUs & doesn't support the 266FSB Tbird you're currently running....if it did, you'd be able to run it at 133mhz (266FSB). Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @8x210mhz 512mb PC3200 Ti4200/8X 128mb WDC 60GB

The problem about the 130MHz is an error in the Via KT133 chip. It was meant to run at 133MHz but can't because of some design problem. I have the A7V133 with the fixed KT133A chip. But this only supports a Athlon XP 2100+(Model 6)(Palomino) max.! For your A7V there is no Athlon XP in the list so I really doubt it will work. And after the 2100+ Palomino the core design changed from 180nm to 130nm with a lower voltage from 1,5 to 1,65V. That should be the reason I can't use a bigger one. The 2100+ Palomino may work on it at a slightly lower frequency but noone who not tried can say for sure. That the 133MHz Thunderbird works is no surprise to me because beside the FSB setting they are identical. I have a 1,2GHz TBird (12x100MHz and run it at 10x133MHz (1,33GHz) from first day. I tried it out and even at full load it only has 1°C more than at the original setting!