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Old January 20th 04, 12:44 AM
Simon
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Hi,

I'm currently running an Athlon xp 2400+ on an Abit KT7A (@ 2.26GHz)
I know the board doesn't officialy support the cpu but it's been running for
a few months and seems stable and quick. However the bios and windows don't
reconise the CPU with the 'unknown CPU type' message appearing. Will this
cause any problems?
For example do programs look to this infomation to see if SSE or other
instruction sets are available? Or is this done a totally different way?

Cheers,
Simon

PS- running an XP on an old kt133 board seems a cheap way to get some extra
life out of it!


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Old January 20th 04, 06:18 AM
S.Heenan
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Simon wrote:
Hi,

I'm currently running an Athlon xp 2400+ on an Abit KT7A (@ 2.26GHz)
I know the board doesn't officialy support the cpu but it's been
running for a few months and seems stable and quick. However the bios
and windows don't reconise the CPU with the 'unknown CPU type'
message appearing. Will this cause any problems?
For example do programs look to this infomation to see if SSE or other
instruction sets are available? Or is this done a totally different
way?

Cheers,
Simon

PS- running an XP on an old kt133 board seems a cheap way to get some
extra life out of it!



Good one. No, it won't cause and long or short term problems provided temps
are held in check.


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Old January 20th 04, 09:05 AM
Wes Newell
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On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 23:44:03 +0000, Simon wrote:

Hi,

I'm currently running an Athlon xp 2400+ on an Abit KT7A (@ 2.26GHz)
I know the board doesn't officialy support the cpu but it's been running for
a few months and seems stable and quick. However the bios and windows don't
reconise the CPU with the 'unknown CPU type' message appearing. Will this
cause any problems?


No.

For example do programs look to this infomation to see if SSE or other
instruction sets are available? Or is this done a totally different way?

Well, programs that are properly written would check the flags, and the
SSE flag is there. There are programs that don't check the flags properly,
but it has nothing to do with the MB, just bad programming.

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Abit KT7-Raid (KT133) Tbred B core CPU @2400MHz (24x100FSB)
http://mysite.verizon.net/res0exft/cpu.html
 




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