Athlon System Configuration

[Guest]

I've come with the following conclosion for the best configuration to buy, based on Price/Performance/Stability optimization:

CPU: Athlon 1.33
CPU Fan: Volcano II
Board: Asus A7V133
RAM: 2*256MB Micron PC133
Disk: IBM 60GXP 40GB
CDRW: Plextor 40*16*10 IDE
Graphics: Elsa 511 TV-OUT -MX400 OEM
Modem: Pine Comstar ESS PCI 3621
Sound: SB Live! Value 5.1 OEM
Case: Antec SX1030
Monitor: CTX PR705F
Printer: HP930C
Thermal grease: Artic Ice II

Any improvments?

 

[Crashman]

I prefer Lucent modems.

Cast not thine pearls before the swine

 

[FatBurger]

Yet another person feels obliged to wave their specs in front of everyone's face for "suggestions". Everyone knows you just want to show off. Stop it or else!


AMD 1.2/266, soon to be overclocked
ABIT KT7a-RAID
ThermoEngine w/ Delta 7000RPM fan
512meg PC133 SDRAM
Hercules GeForce II MX 64 meg
Paired Maxtor DiamondMAX Plus 30gig on RAID 0
Philips Seismic Edge 4-channel
Netgear FA312

Oops, now you've got me doing it


Apple? Macintosh? What are these strange words you speak?

 

[Guest]

many people are not happy with the Volcano II, maybe you might want to get a better one?

 

[Kelledin]

Dammit, now I've got to post <A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?rigid=5092" target="_new">my specs</A> too! Bastard!

Kelledin

"/join #hackerz. See the Web. DoS interesting people."

 

[wapaaga]

nice system youve got there

 

[Guest]

OK, I want to get a motherboard this summer for a computer I am building for college. The thing is, I want this motherboard to be fully compliant with the Athlon4 cpu when it comes out. How do I know which mobos will support this? Also, when will the first nForce mobo that supports athlon4's be out?
thanks

 

[Crashman]

Many people are not happy. Most people are very happy. Some people have bad luck, some are NEVER happy. VolcanoII has a good track record. <A HREF="http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=631261#631261" target="_new">SEE MY STINKING THERMALTAKE VOLCANO II REVIEW HERE, WITH FEEDBACK! </A>

Cast not thine pearls before the swine

 

[peteb]

You cannot be cerating until Athlon4 is released that the mobo you buy will be Athlon4 fully compliant.

The general consensus is that all recent (133FSB upwards) boards will support Athlon4. They may not support everything about it though - temperature protection etc.

If you want to be 100% sure - wait.

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[Guest]

Since you mentioned price/performance...I'd suggest buying a much cheaper 1.0ghz 266 FSB cpu and overclocking it to 1.4ghz--plus the Volcano II should be sufficient enough to cool it down.
There are also cheaper Motherboards that are just up to par in terms of performance with the Asus (i.e. Iwill KK266).
For a CD-RW, the AOpen CRW1232A/Pro is about 60 dollar cheaper than the Plexwriter and PCWorld ranks it higher than the Plexwriter. However, it is only 12x in oppose to 16x.

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[lhgpoobaa]

ooooh.
you just had o respond didntcha???
hom my hamster will tell you about his specs...
*hamster gets on*
*squeak*
i have a:
amd athaloin 1200 C @ 150fsb
asus a7v133
512 pc150 kingmax @ cas 2
40gig 60GXP
16.8gig 16.8GP
52x sony CD
12x10x32x plextor
sblive player
win2k
gigabyte 660 plus (tnt2 pro)
netcom internal modem
300w psu
floppy drive
inhell wheel mouse
very old ps2 honeywell keyboard (very nice for my little paws too!)
chateau Tabilk mousemat
old 17' monitor which can just do 1024x768x32 @ 95hz (prefers 85)
sound card attached to my hi-fi system.
*hamster gets off*

well there u go.
suffer



My Hamster has 512MB of SDRAM @ 150Mhz CAS 2!

 

[wapaaga]

you got one smart hamster there

 

[lhgpoobaa]

oh yes. very smart,
not to mention handsom, charming, whitty, and so warm in bed...
opps
. o O (did i say that last one out loud?)

*grinz*

My Hamster has 512MB of SDRAM @ 150Mhz CAS 2!