CPU & motherboard help!

Everyone is raving about Athlon now (or T-bird), although you will see more than one posting on this site regarding heat issues (just make sure you have good ventilation, etc.). But if you choose to buy a PIII system, you can get more bank out of the E chips, because of the internal multiplier. Read to E or to EB on the CPU section of this forum, then read Tom's review of the CUSL platform and his old BX overclocking review. But,...

Don't give up on the idea of an Athlon based system. Read the reviews before you buy anything. If you are building a new system, 'socket A' main boards costs about the same (or less!), and they say its faster. Ask grizly1 for advice on this. He knows alot more about AMD.

Clonan

Thanks clonan,

I will take another look at other possibilities. Most definitly.

Thanks again

Jay

Jessey_wa

Forgive me but did you mean to type sse2 instead of ss2? If so you have me confused since near as I can tell sse2 is supported by p4 but p3 supports only plain sse. What did you mean by ss2? Future chips from both Intel and AMD are to support sse2 but are not likely to be compatible with a p3 style mobo.