I went to Akihabara in Tokyo today and picked up a KT7-RAID for near free. It came without a driver CD, cable, or manual... nothing except for a small spec sheet and a 1 month shop warranty. I know it's old, but can I still build a fairly decent machine using this? it's socket A 462... the sheet said it can't use a processor above 1.0GHz... is that right because I've gotten a few different answers online.

I have found the site to get the drivers, but I haven't found an instruction manual... can anyone help?
also, it looks like it's AGP 4X... what are my options? would it be best to go with PCI like a radeon 9000?

Thanks

found the manual, but still would like to see my possibilities...

Quote: Originally Posted by Inazma I went to Akihabara in Tokyo today and picked up a KT7-RAID for near free. It came without a driver CD, cable, or manual... nothing except for a small spec sheet and a 1 month shop warranty. I know it's old, but can I still build a fairly decent machine using this? it's socket A 462... the sheet said it can't use a processor above 1.0GHz... is that right because I've gotten a few different answers online. I have found the site to get the drivers, but I haven't found an instruction manual... can anyone help? also, it looks like it's AGP 4X... what are my options? would it be best to go with PCI like a radeon 9000? Thanks

I looked this board over a bit, it only supports PC133 Non DDR memory, so don't expect to much, but it could be a decent Backup/Folding rig

Features
	Processor - AMD Socket A Duron (100MHz FSB) up to 950MHz - AMD Socket A Athlon (100MHz FSB) up to 1.4GHz
	Chipset - VIA KT133/VIA 686B
	Memory - Three 168-pin DIMM sockets support up to 1.5GB PC100/PC133 SDRAM

HERE are the General specs for the board, and HERE are the OC settings options.

I would grab a AGP video card for it, either a NVidia Ti4200, or for a Direct X9 card, an ATI 9600Pro.
The Motherboard board supports up to 4x AGP, and that is fine for use with a modern video card, the difference between 4x and 8x AGP is negligable.

What you might try is a T-Bird 1.4MHZ CPU, and 512 MB of PC133 to get the most out of this board.

I found this 1.33 ghz T-Bred using PRICEWATCH, it lists as a 266FSB part, but it might work, maybe someone else here can tell you for sure, they have plenty of different socket A CPU's listed there still.

thanks a lot for the info!

do you know if i have to use RAID with this board??? or is RAID just an option?

It is an option.

I have this mobo running in the wifes comp with a t-bird 900. I think the highest you can go is a 1.2 gig as the multi only goes to 12.5 and a 100 Mhz FSB.

EDIT: To use ATA 100 you must run your HDD off of the raid connectors. If you hook up to the IDE connectors you are limited to ATA 66. You do not have to run a raid array and you can run one HDD off the raid connector.

I can't remember who wrote new firmware for the bios to do it, but I have one that's currently serving an Athlon 1.4GHz after I flashed it with the new code. The computer is currently in use as a file server.