Help me with my mobile Athlon build please (opinions)

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I am looking for other peoples opinions on my next upgrade. I am trying to
keep the price under $350 and reach 3000+ or better speeds w/1GB ram.

I am thinking of taking advantage of the over clocking capabilities of the
mobile Athlons. Memory seems to be coming down a little and I want to buy
before the back to school rush jacks the price again. I've been building my
own systems since the P166 and have never had a problem putting a stable
system together, but I have never messed with over clocking.

Does anyone see a problem getting these parts to 3000+ speeds or better?
Any better ideas? I am willing to move a little on cost but I'm trying to
keep it low as possible.

My current power supply, video card and drives are all up to snuff.

Thanks for looking, Joe.

All from Newegg:

1-AMD 35 Watt Mobile Athlon XP 2400+, 266 MHz FSB, 512K L2 Cache Processor
$87
1-ABIT "NF7-S" nForce2 $85
2-Mushkin 184 Pin 512MB DDR PC-3200 $83
1-Speeze "FalconRock" CPU Cooler for Socket A/ 370, Model "5F286B" $11


http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=35-150-023&catalog=23&manufactory=BROWSE

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-439&catalog=23&manufactory=BROWSE

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=13-127-166&catalog=23&manufactory=BROWSE

http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=20-146-219&catalog=23&manufactory=BROWSE

 

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"joD" <jod@cannot.com> wrote in message news:cadlk9058e@news4.newsguy.com...
> I am looking for other peoples opinions on my next upgrade. I am trying to
> keep the price under $350 and reach 3000+ or better speeds w/1GB ram.
>
> I am thinking of taking advantage of the over clocking capabilities of the
> mobile Athlons. Memory seems to be coming down a little and I want to buy
> before the back to school rush jacks the price again. I've been building
my
> own systems since the P166 and have never had a problem putting a stable
> system together, but I have never messed with over clocking.
>
> Does anyone see a problem getting these parts to 3000+ speeds or better?
> Any better ideas? I am willing to move a little on cost but I'm trying to
> keep it low as possible.

I was able to get within six bucks of your budget without overclocking, with
a very good name-brand motherboard and good name-brand (and very stable)
RAM. Check out the following bundle from www.mwave.com

AMD ATHLON XP 3000+ 333MHZ OEM BUNDLE W/ Details (BIOSTAR M7NCD-400; MWAVE
COPPER PLATE FAN; KINGSTON 1GB DDR333(512MB X 2); NO TESTING
$356

That tells me you should be able to do this for less than $350 without
overclocking, if you look around a bit. I'd just fork out the extra bucks
and order it all from mwave though, if I was doing this. -Dave