I have an Abit KT7A-RAID mobo. It is going in my second comp. The processor in it right now is an AMD Duron 750. I read on the Abit's site that it will support anything up to 1.4 Ghz with a 100/133 Mhz fsb. My question is simply this. When I read that an AMD Athlon XP chip has a 266 fsb, does that mean that it will be compatible with my 133 board? In other words, are they simply advertising the double pumped data rate? Secondly should I run into any problems using an XP chip on a board that is this old? Anyone have any suggestions where I might find a good upgrade chip for this board? I looked at Newegg and CDW, but everything there is 266 or higher. Hence my post. I will try to check back here to read replies, but feel free to email me as well. Thank you in advance. J.

I took a look at the manual for it, and I would guess no. According to BIOS revisions, it said nothing about the XP editions of the Athlons. Honestly, instead of springing for a new CPU, upgrading to a new chipset motherboard and DDR would do more good than the CPU from the get go. I've seen KT600 boards for $37 after rebate from Soyo, and Nforce Ultra 400 based boards for around $60. 256M DDR is around $40, and 512M are around $80. Then you could later upgrade to something more worthwhile like an Athlon 2500 or more. MCSE, MCSA Messaging, baby!

The 266FSB you're seeing is the double pumped number...the actual setting is 133mhz. Your board doesn't support any XP CPUs. If it's just a 2nd PC (or backup) & you don't wanna invest too much in it, see if you can find an Athlon 1.33 Tbird...they come unlocked & are very overclockable. Newegg has them for $42, but you may be able to find a used one cheaper than that. The 1.4 Tbird is much more expensive & not worth it for the minor speed increase. I have my 1.33 clocked to 1.47 (10.5 x 140) on an Asus A7V133-C (KT133A chipset) & it runs great!

Thanks for the help guys. As far as not supporting XP chips, like a dummie, I went and looked after I posted and saw that the slowest XP chip I could find was 1.6 anyways. So it didnt matter anyways...lol. But I did find a Thunderbird. So thank you for the advice. I just might do that. Thanks again.

jam forgot to mention that his processor also runs only a few degrees above room temperature when he's running the VCool utility. You have the same chipset and can run VCool too. Let us know how it works for you. Skip