Howdy, was just given a "new" soltek SL-75DRV mobo and figured I turn it into a homework comp or garage comp. According to the manual it's compatible with Duron and Thunderbird CPUs, any chance I can squeak an athlon XP in?

I'm still relatively new to the older technology and when I see "Socket A" I just figured it meant all socket As...now not so sure about the athlon xps.

Here is the link to the manual if you're interested: http://www.motherboards.org/fi...manuals/118/75drv.pdf

If xp's are out...what are the best options I should be combing ebay for?

Thanks for the help!

up to an Athlon XP2100+, Palomino core should go fine.

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Thanks, is that my best bang for buck? I plan on OC'ing it as much as is safely possible....

Afaik, Palomino core XPs are not very good overclockers.

Found some more info re this motherboard's CPU support, there are some
details re the version of the board. I hope it helps!

http://www.soltek.de/soltek/FA..._CPU_Support_List.pdf

http://www.soltek.de/soltek/FAQ/75DRV.htm

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Awesome, great find....any idea what that red dot would look like? In the bottom left corner of the mobo, down to the left of the 5th PCI slot (bottom one) there is a small round yellow sticker with red writing on it. Says: S.L/QC/OK/44 That's not what they mean by a red dot is it?

if its 133(266) FSB it can support the Athlon XP, its just a question of will the bios recognize it and does your voltage regulator operate in the XP specs, palomino would be fine, not sure about T-Bred as it mainly comes to the regulator

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Sorry to persist on this but the above link by go_for says it's not supported unless there is a red dot....I don't see the red dot, do you think the palomino will still work?

I am not sure about this, but I think the red dot should be a fairly obvious marking, using a red label or paint.

There could yet be a chance the Palomino works though, but its a flip of a coin.

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Thunderbird and Palamino are 100% compatabile, your only issue will be SEE may not be supported or data prefetch on your motherboard, but physically it will read the CPU fine. It will say AThlon unknown or similar but both Tbird and Palamino are 1.75V

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Core I7-3930k -- MSI GTX670 Quad SLI -- ASUS Rampage Extreme IV -- 4x4gb Muskin Redline DDR3 1866 -- 128gb SSD -- Windows 7 Ultimate
Phenom II 960T -- XFX HD4870 -- ECS IC780M -- 2x2gb DDR3 1333 -- 500gb HD -- Windows 7 Home Premium

That's great news for me...so, even without that red dot it should be ok for the Palamino and Thunderbird?

Stupid question, what is "SEE"?

well its just instructions really, SSE was known as KNI or Kamati New Instruction. It just adds some 3d preformance to your CPU, but on the AMD its call 3dNow Professional lol

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Core I7-3930k -- MSI GTX670 Quad SLI -- ASUS Rampage Extreme IV -- 4x4gb Muskin Redline DDR3 1866 -- 128gb SSD -- Windows 7 Ultimate
Phenom II 960T -- XFX HD4870 -- ECS IC780M -- 2x2gb DDR3 1333 -- 500gb HD -- Windows 7 Home Premium

Hi guys, just wondering if your experience with the Palomino and the Soltek SL-75DRV went well.

I was thinking of upgrading my Athlon 1.2 GHz. Don't think I have the red dot, but some here seem to say it shouldn't matter because of the similarities in architecture.

Thanks.

Can anyone out there answer my question?