Hi All. I am looking for a board that will work for a flip chip Pentium 3. I'm not sure of the mhz because it will be a gift that a friend will be receiving, but I believe it will be an 800 to 933 mhz. I am going to build it for him. I also believe it will be the 133 mhz buss version of one of those chips. His son also is dead set on a Voodoo 5 64MB video card bacause of the support for the games that he plays. I believe it's AGP 4x, so we were looking for a board with AGP 4x support, and possibly UATA 100 support for the hard drive. Anything I should look out for? Any case, power supply, cpu fan, hard drive and 17" monitor recommendations would also be appreciated.
Because he might add components later, he was thinking of getting a CompUSA tower case with the 4 large drive bays, 2 small bays, and a 300 watt power supply. About $60 locally.
He was also looking at the UATA 100, 30 GB 7200 rpm 2MB cache hard drive from IBM. I was leaning towards pricewatch.com for this item since it's so high here locally.
We might get the ram from a local dealer that sells Micron 128MB PC 133 chips for about $80 with tax though it might have gone down a little more. I have had ram problems once before and I am a little cautious about buying ram over the net.
For CD-ROM, he was looking at an ACER 50x, also from the local dealer for about $50. He will upgrade to a CD-RW when he can afford it later. For the monitor, we were checking out the Viewsonic EF70 for about $256 from Onvia.com. I know his son will want to run the video card at high resolution rates the Quake games that he plays.
If you know of a dealer online you could recommend buying all or most of this stuff to save a few bucks and taxes, that might be the route we will go. Sorry for such a damn, long post. But I'm sure there's a gamer out there that might have a similiar system and some pointers. Thanks and good holiday season. Robert
Because he might add components later, he was thinking of getting a CompUSA tower case with the 4 large drive bays, 2 small bays, and a 300 watt power supply. About $60 locally.
He was also looking at the UATA 100, 30 GB 7200 rpm 2MB cache hard drive from IBM. I was leaning towards pricewatch.com for this item since it's so high here locally.
We might get the ram from a local dealer that sells Micron 128MB PC 133 chips for about $80 with tax though it might have gone down a little more. I have had ram problems once before and I am a little cautious about buying ram over the net.
For CD-ROM, he was looking at an ACER 50x, also from the local dealer for about $50. He will upgrade to a CD-RW when he can afford it later. For the monitor, we were checking out the Viewsonic EF70 for about $256 from Onvia.com. I know his son will want to run the video card at high resolution rates the Quake games that he plays.
If you know of a dealer online you could recommend buying all or most of this stuff to save a few bucks and taxes, that might be the route we will go. Sorry for such a damn, long post. But I'm sure there's a gamer out there that might have a similiar system and some pointers. Thanks and good holiday season. Robert
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