Be aware that your PSU may need changing to support it - you should have 350Watts for preference. Pentiums were/are very fussy beasts (where did you get a Pentium 400 - they only went up to 233!), but AMD Socket A chips just seem to work most of the time, so you could well be in luck just slotting it in. You could stick an Athlon XP 2100 in it, but you wouldn't get full speed out of it. Yours is a KT133A-based board, so it's not DDR. True, the processor will run DDR internally, but the Northbridge will become a bottleneck. You need the correct chipset to go with it to get the full benefits. It does't happen automatically, just because that is the rating of the chip. 100Mhz only = 200Mhz FSB on a DDR (Double Data Rate) board. I don't know the board, but I had a quick look at the website, and it says that you need to switch jumper JFSB to clock the FSB to 133Mhz.
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