Ok i've got an ASUS A7V8X-X motherboard?

Question

with an AMD Athlon(TM)XP2200+1.35 GHz processor and would like to upgrade to 2.8 GHz or higher(staying with athlon processor) and would like to know if it's just a case of out with the old and in with the new

Answer 1

Yes you can upgrade to a 2800. I have the same board and processor in my home server.

The reason you can not upgrade to the 3000 or 3200 is they both use a 400Mhz bus speed while the 2800 is the last of the 333Mhz bus speed chips. According to ASUS's website, the A7V8X-X is a 333Mhz bus motherboard.

Now if you are going to overclock then all bets are off. If you can push the motherboard clock speed up to 400Mhz then any chip that will fit in the socket will work.

Either way it would be better to upgrade your RAM to PC3200.

Answer 2

Yes, I used to run one of these with an xp3000+.

You may need to upgrade your bios though (see the asus website for details) before the board will recognise the full speed of the cpu.

Also make sure your new cpu is the same socket format. Was a while back now since I used one so I am not sure - but aren't the asus boards socket A?
Some newer cpu are socket 939 or socket 754 and these will not fit in your motherboard.

If you plan on upgrading to another athlon XP then you should be ok, but if you plan on using an athlon64 or sempron then it will not fit.

Answer 3

The consumer instruction manual for the A7V8X-X motherboard is poorly written pertaining to to reminiscence configurations and the technical jargon on the internet doesn’t help. This MB has 3 reminiscence slots and the instruction manual says it is able to preserving as much as 3 gb of reminiscence. yet what form of reminiscence? ‘Banks’ refers back to the climate of the reminiscence stick that comprise the small oblong chips of reminiscence. A stick of reminiscence could have one component crammed with those little chips, generally 8 (one financial company). Or it could have the two components crammed, sixteen chips (2 banks). reminiscence sticks could have particularly some capacities, 256 mb working example, each and every of ways as much as gb values. this is the formulation I’ve chanced on that seems to make the main sense. The commerce off is extra reminiscence at slower speeds, yet which would be extra significant than much less reminiscence at a quicker velocity. yet even the DDR400 reminiscence will only run as quickly as a results of fact the board’s FSB that's 333 mh. a) a million gb (one stick of DDR400; a million stick = 2 banks) b) 2 gb (2 sticks of DDR333 2 sticks = 4 banks) c) 3 gb (3 sticks of DDR266; 3 sticks = 6 banks)

Answer 4

Yes, you can easily put in a 2800+, or up to a 3200+. Just make sure you have to right heat sink.

Answer 5

if you can still find one, you can get an xp 3200 cpu, but you will need to upgrade your ram to ddr400

Answer 6

According to the manual you can only go to 2.25GHZ MAX.