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Anyone with experience changing motherboard CPU to a different one?
I have an old computer, one of the first that allowed RAID and that brought it back to life. But the CPU is slow.
The old CPU is AMD Athlon 200/266MHz FSB.
I already have a newer CPU that should work - maybe you can tell me.
the newer CPU
AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 266MHz 256KB Socket A CPU
The newer CPU is the AMD Athlon XP processor with QuantiSpeed architecture is the latest member of the AMD Athlon family of processors designed to meet the computation-intensive requirements of advanced software applications running on high-performance desktop systems. This AMD Athlon XP 2400+ has a Front Side Bus of 266 MHz and 256 KB L2 cache!
Will this newer CPU work? They are both Socket A CPU's.
What problems will I encounter?
Will I have to flash the BIOS?
I've already taken an image of the hard drive, so I won't lose any data.
What preparations do I need to make before making the switch?
2 Answers
- James SLv 610 years agoFavorite Answer
Ok heres the thing about the Socket A cpu's.. I had a Asus A7V with the old VIA kt133 chipset. IT only supported the Durons and Athlon's with the 200MHz fsb or what they named the thunderbird core.
The speeds were 500Mhz to 1.4GHz. Then came along Palomino which was a processor that used the 266Mhz Buss and then there was the T-bread and Barton core.
Now heres the thing.. If you stuck in a unsupported AMD cpu into that board you can damage the motherboard and or the processor. I did this just for laughs and it ruined my board. Which I stuck in a old barton 2Ghz cpu into the A7V. It never posted the BIOS again.
I worked on another board where I swapped in a Athlon XP into a older board that did not support and the system was unstable because it did not know how to handle all the L2 Cache.
You need to check the motherboard CPU support to see if it can run that processor before you even attempt changing the Thunderbird Core CPU with anything newer.
If its supported I would suggest you flash the newest bios to support the new cpu. If you don't you might have to swap the old one back in first then flash it then put the new one in.
Heres the link on AMD cpus from that Era. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon#Palomino
- ?Lv 710 years ago
You will have to look up your motherboard make/model and see if it requires a BIOS update to work with the new CPU, however.
If not, then all you need to do is pop it in, put on some thermal paste, and slap a heatsink/fan assembly on it. Make sure the HSF is at least big enough or is designed for the new CPU otherwise (and not the old HSF for the old CPU) it might not dissipate enough heat for the new CPU.
