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thefunkeymonkey   01-21-2002 at 02:15:45 AM

Hi,

Gettting parts for the first pc im building later on this week.

Buying them though a techie mate who has this trade account with some firm so he can get parts cheaper.

I have asked for an althlon xp 1500 as this came out best in the value for money article on toms hardware.

Dont have a choice as to motherboard, deal on where buy 2 motherboards for £98 (both building pc's, though he can only afford a Duron 1200). Socket A, takes pc133 (i hope as ddr ram is expensive). Has onboard graphics (till i have enough for a ATI Radeon 8500 LE) and onboard sound. Case with 300watt psu. Allready have drives,etc.

Just read and downloaded the video of how hot AMD cpu's get. Also I am not confident about applying thermal compound.

I play a lot of games (Return to castle wolfenstein :-) which i noticed in the lab video takes it's toll on cpu's.

What heatsink should I get? How powerfull? How many and what size fans (Will two 80mm atx do)? Don't care about noise at all.

Cheers

Mark

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Matisaro   01-21-2002 at 11:27:00 AM
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Do you plan to overclock?


If not, buy a retail xp1500 and use the included heatsink.

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thefunkeymonkey   01-21-2002 at 07:36:03 PM
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Its oem so guessing it does not come with a heatsink? What heatsink comes with the reail version?

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Anonymous   01-21-2002 at 08:47:10 PM
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don't buy the 1500+, I work at a computer distributor, so I know the most updated price. 1700+ is a better buy. Here are some price for different CPU. 1600+ C$196, 1700+ C$212, 1800+ C$263. That report is outdated, I mean on the price.

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Matisaro   01-22-2002 at 05:19:23 AM
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The retail comes with a standard heatsink, which is quiet and workd perfectly fine if you dont overclock. Furthermore you get a 3 year warrantee if you use the retail hsf.

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camieabz   01-22-2002 at 05:25:55 AM
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I beleive the XP 1600+ gives the best bang per buck right now. There's a recommended coolermaster fan for it, which works fine.

I'd consider a 350W supply though.

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thefunkeymonkey   01-22-2002 at 09:28:04 PM
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Thanks everbody.

Found out the motherboard im getting is a K7T 266 Pro (MS-6380) for £50 :-). And the max mhz cpu it can handle is 1400mhz so im getting an althlon xp 1600.

Does it take sd ram? As I have 384mb of sdram. On the specs page for it on the offical site:

http://www.msicomputer.com/product [...] 66_Pro.htm

under main memory it says:

Three 184-pin DDR DIMM.
Maximum memory size up to 3GB.
Supports 2.5v DDR SDRAM DIMM.

DDR SDRAM?

Cheers

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camieabz   01-23-2002 at 01:15:28 AM
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The link doesn't work.

I would say no to that. DDR is 184 pin, as it says, and SDRAM is 168 pin. Different slots. Now an ECS K7S5A mobo will, run an XP 1600+ nicely and has DDR & SDR slots. So you hang on to the old RAM until you can get some DDR RAM.

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AMD_Man   01-23-2002 at 01:37:07 AM
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And the max mhz cpu it can handle is 1400mhz so im getting an althlon xp 1600


No it's not, it can handle all the way up to the Athlon XP 2000+ and beyond.

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AMD_Man   01-23-2002 at 01:39:11 AM
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Does it take sd ram? As I have 384mb of sdram.


No it doesn't.

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AMD_Man   01-23-2002 at 01:40:44 AM
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The closest thing tht matches your requirements is a board based on the nForce. But, unfortunately, they use only DDR RAM. I don't think you are going to find a decent board with what you're after.

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