Which Athlon is best for me? HELP

i am in the market to buy a new athlon and motherboard now.
i have a few questions, hopefully you guys can answer them all for me:

1. What core should i get? the 200 fsb or 266? what is this Axia thing ive seen around. also what is the Blue and Green cores? which one is better, the blue or green?
2. I have decided the Asus A7V will be good for me. what are your opinions of it? is there a better model? what about this 760 chipset? (im not interested in DDR )
3. Will i encounter any problems with my existing hardware i want to carry over. i have a Diamond v770 TNT2. creative Labs Live! Value. i have good quality 128MB of 133ram
what hardware issues might i see, i have a 300watt PS.
4. Where do i go when i do purchase to get the fixes and drivers i will probally need to fix the issues im sure to have
I plan on getting a Thermaltake Super Orb, they seem good for the price i can get them at.

Thank you for your replies. Please no one try to convince me into a P3 or P4 , its not an option.

ok i wont be getting one of those

Which heatsink is good, not too expensive and also NOT LOUD

is the blue or green core better? is one harder to find then the other? i want a 1ghz TBird, do they make that in the 133fsb?

Thanks a lot for your help

You want a 266MHz FSB CPU, if you can get a motherboard that will run such a FSB. The latest KT133A motherboards are best for this if you don't want to go the DDR route.

If you already have a mobo with a 200MHz-only FSB (like the early KT133s), a 266MHz FSB CPU might not be the way to go. You would have to do some minor modifications to such a chip with a graphite pencil to get it to its specced clock speed. Minor as these mods may be, they will void any warranty on the CPU.

The "blue core" is better--it is guaranteed to have copper interconnects, which make for greater tolerances and higher clock speeds. As such, they are the most overclockable, and the higher speed T-birds generally come with copper interconnects. "Green cores" may or may not have copper interconnects; it's the luck of the draw.

The "AXIA" is one of the latest steppings of the Thunderbird. Probably nobody but AMD really knows why those four letters were chosen to identify it. Every once in a while, a CPU manufacturer has to apply a new "stepping" to a CPU to get it to clock to higher speeds. The AXIA stepping has proven to be the most overclockable--I've heard of people getting 1GHz-specced T-birds with AXIA steppings and pushing them to 1.5GHz. Pretty much all the 1.3GHz T-birds have the AXIA stepping.

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SO if i buy a asus A7V133 should i run a athlon with 133/266 or 100/200 fsb?? Will it run with this board to its full potential?

Also what hsf should i get? for value, not crazily loud and good cooling!

What was the deal with the blue cores....if i get a blue cored athlon c will it be good for overclocking??? Im a little confused with this axia core.

also what hsf should i get? for value, not crazily loud and good cooling!

Just make sure you get the one with the free frypan and the bottle of oil. That way you can fry it without having to take off your computers case. Just ask poor namgorf. All the trouble he went too, he even took a photo for us to look at. He says it didn't go to well with his fish however so I suggest you have some tomato sauce handy for when its cooked.

"Cock-a-doodle-do" is what I say to my girl when I wake her UP in the morning!!

FINAL QUESTION:
1. IS the Athlon 1ghz c-type(133/266) better than the normal blue core(100/233) athlon for overclocking on the Asus A7V133?

2. Is the Super orb a sufficient cooling device? if not what should i get?

>2. Is the Super orb a sufficient cooling device? if not what should i get?

The Thermaltake Volcano II is very easy to install, and very quiet. I think I paid $15 for mine. It's done well in some benchmarks, and I've had no problems with my 1.2 GHz TBird-C.

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.

Well, my bios temps have been good. Can't remember them off-hand. I'm running linux, and mucking around with different distros, kernels etc. right now, so I haven't gotten around to setting up a temperature monitoring program just yet.

I have been running programs that peg the CPU @ 100% for hours & days at a time with no problems. And it is very easy to install. Not that I have anything to compare it to. This is the first socket A system I've built.


In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.

asslawn 1.4 has more mhz than others