Athlon upgrade question. Right now I have an AMD 1.4GHZ Athlon chip. I want to know if it is possible to upgrade this with my current motherboard or not. My mother board is an ASUS A7A266. I don't know much about computers so I'd have to have a shop in town...

power suppy for o/c athlon. I am thinking about putting together a system with an overclocked 1 gig Athlon on a Asus a7v133 also running an Asus v7700 delux I've heard about some reliability problems with these, possibly related to the power supply and I...

Athlon 1.0 GHZ Upgrade. Is it worth the 250$ to upgrade my 800 Athlon to a 1 ghz Athlon? I have a ASUS K7V MB with 133mhz ram 256meg. THe ads I read at pricewatch say that the slot A 1GHZ is with 256 full speed cache for about 250 to 270. (there were others...

Advanced Micro Devic Gigabyte GA-7DX Motherboard, 1.33GHz 414 445 Advanced Micro Devic ASUS A7V Motherboard, 1.3GHz Athlon 348 374 --------------- The Athlon's floating point performance is looking rather pathetic. The 1.3GHz P4 beats the 1.33GHz...

Barton) really worth buying as compared to intel 2.4 Ghz (800 FSB) I am not planning to Overclock at all, not a hardware geek ;) For Athlon i can have - Asus A7N8X mobo - nforce2 For intel i can have - any Asus i865 chipset Mobo. ram. Remains the...

Scared To Install XP!!!. Hey! I have: 1.1ghz Athlon, Asus A7V 256 Mb SDRAM 20 Gigs ATA 100, GF2 Ultra, SOund Blaster Live Value II. I am scared to install XP because WIN 98 gave me so many problems due to the A7V! Anyone installed XP on an A7V...

talking about, to get the BEST out of that system, go with the Swiftech, very good for overclocking! I have a 1.33 AMD Athlon ASUS A7M MOBO current temp is 39c Down at pants n at wit Donnie Iris The onboard audio is adequate for most users, it is one...

upgrade my processor in a year (who can predict where technology will go, I understand) or will I have to buy a new mobo, too? I mean, 18 months from now, can I put a Palamino 1800 + Athlon in the Asus A7v133? Or do I need the KT266 chipset? Thanks, e...

recommend going to and check out their recommended hardware for building a system. You must have a good power supply for the Athlon. Asus and Abit make excellent motherboards. I know abit has a t-bird board with built in RAID. RAID allows two hard drives...

it will get on a budget: That does not leave you with much, but let's see what can be done: OK, here is your list. Combo deal, AMD quad core Athlon and Asus 785G MB This will give you a decent onboard GPU, and 4 cores are better than 3 for your...