A7V133 Rev1.05(no dot) & Thornton AXDC 2000

[Acedrew]

Having read that my Rev 1.05(no dot) A7V133 board doesn't officially support
Thoroughbred or Barton, I thought I would try one anyway!

So, I got an AXDC coded 2000+ CPU (which I take to be a Thornton core - i.e
castrated Barton) and plugged it in.

(Before doing so I had flashed up to the latest 1010 Beta BIOS, and set
multiplier to 12.5X in Jumpered mode).

It all seems to work happily! CPU reports as a 1666 Athlon XP in the BIOS.

Should I force the voltage down using the Jumpers though? It's still at the
default and I'm worried that it will be too high for the Barton/Thornton
core.

Cheers,

Andy

 

[Acedrew]

OK, the BIOS Hardware Monitor reports Vcore as a tad under 1.6V. i.e
Appropriate for a Thornton (not 1.75V as I had feared).

 

[Acedrew]

OK, the BIOS Hardware Monitor reports Vcore as a tad under 1.6V. i.e
Appropriate for a Thornton (not 1.75V as I had feared).

 

[Roland Scheidegger]

Yes the board will use the voltage as suggested by the cpu.
I'd advise you to run some stress testing programs though, for instance
memtest86 (will also find errors if the cpu-chipset bus isn't quite
stable) and prime95. While it may run stable, some people didn't have
luck and it only ran almost stable with unsupported cpus. It's just not
worth it running a board which needs to be rebooted 3 times a day for
unknown reasons :-(.

Roland