fine new system now i need specifics on mother board ram etc

[1776]

Fester, watch the video at the end of this article:http://www4.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q3/010917/index.html

Don't forget you will have to get a new case too as the P4 uses a special 4pin thingie from the power supply.

If you go the AMD route I'm sure you will find a ,heheeeeeeeee, fire sale on the AMD CPU's

[ 09-29-2001: Message edited by: 1776 ]

[vatiAH]

Fester,

     I would not worry to much about the Tom's hardware artical.  The chances of your CPU fan falling off are next to Zero if it is installed correctly from the get go.  I do have to say I am impressed with Intels use of a over heat shut down thou.

Vati

[Staga]

Fester that Thunderbird setup looks good but as Dowding said try to get a UDMA100 hard-disk like IBM GXP 60 or GXP 75.

If video-card you're using now (MX400/64) can give you framerates you can live with then keep it, I use to have MX2 and got framerates 40-50 in 1024*768 32bit and now with Radeon64 80-100 in same resolution but there's really not much difference in gameplay IMO.

[Fester']

heres what i ended up with

AMD K7 Thunderbird 1.4GHz Socket A
VisionTek Geforce 2 Ultra 64 DDR
Asus A7A266 ALI DDR/SDRAM ATX
512MB PC2100 266Mhz DDR
Seagate 30.6 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive

[NUTTZ]

LOL, there was a guy who asked  why ANYONE would need a system with 64 K of total memory, I will have to find the quote from this famous guy about the Commador64 when it came out.


NUTTZ
P.S. Fester your forgetting the most important part, at least get a 7200 rpm HD.

 

Originally posted by Fester':
why would anyone ever need more than 486k of RAM? - Bill Gates

[minus]

Creamo is cool    

fester  sugestion , think about realy god heatsink+fan

[Thirdup]

How about dual AMD's...heh.
 http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tigermp.html

1 Tiger MP (S2460) Dual processor mainboard
2 AMD Athlon MP 1.4GHz CPUs
2 Global Win WBK 68 Heatsink Fans
4 256MB PC2100 DDR Memory Modules
1 Visiontec GEForce3 64 DDR
1 IDE RAID controller
2 Maxtor 20 gig ATA-100 IDE, 7200 rpm Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) running in RAID_0 (stripped array)
1 Floppy Disk Drive (FDD)
1 Creative 52xCD-ROM Drive
1 SB-Live! Sound Card
1 Gigabit LAN Card
1 Antec SX840 Enclosure, 420w p/s
2 92mm intake fans (door)
2 60mm case intake fans (front)
2 60mm case exhaust fans (rear)
Windows XP Pro

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[Tac]

Fester:

1.4ghz AMD with 266FSB DDR
512 megs DDR2100 RAM
GFORCE 2 64 megs
17" monitor
mouse/keyb
60 gig 7200RPM HDD
300Watt AMD certified
Heatsink
CD Burner
DVD
SBLIVE 5.1

All for around $1200
 www.micropro.com
Buy the ram from www.crucial.com
Buy the CDR, Sound Card and vid card from whatever store you find it cheaper at (in micropro.com they overcharge you for those). I suggest www.EGGHEAD.com  or search pricewatch.com for lowest prices.

If you keeping your monitor then you would be paying about 900 bucks only.

Not bad for a high end system, specially when DELL, GATEWAY and the likes charge $2000+ for P4's that barely keep up with a system like this  

[~Caligula~]

Micropro?...stay away from them.
I bought my stuff from them when I upgraded,
1.2AMD,asus MB,memory,GF2 ultra,HDD.
The motherboard took a dump the next day,I asked them for support,they couldn`t help,than told me to ship back the board,and they`ll replace it.I decided to ask for the money back,and went out to buy the same board in some local PC store.
Than after about a week after UPS` date of dlivery I called them about my money,they told me they never got the board.So I threw the tracking numbers at them,so he tells me the`ll refound the money on my card.
It showed up on my account after about 4 more weeks.
Off course shipping with UPS was all my expense.

IMO changing a GF2MX to a GF2ultra is a waste.Might as well dish out for a GF3.I`m sure games that utilize the GF3 are coming out soon,and it`s gotto be faster with the old one`s anyways.GF2 ultra is nice,but I don`t think it`s that much better than a GF2mx.Especially U allready got the 62mb videomemory.

[Fester']

originally posted by Tac:
1.4ghz AMD with 266FSB DDR
512 megs DDR2100 RAM
GFORCE 2 64 megs
17" monitor
mouse/keyb
60 gig 7200RPM HDD
300Watt AMD certified
Heatsink
CD Burner
DVD
SBLIVE 5.1

All for around $1200

1200 sound like a ripoff, i payed half that for the complete box with no monitor by searching through...
 www.pricewatch.com


total with the geforce 64 ddr included was only a few dollars more than the 32mb tnt2 card the system normally comes with so I took it because they dont ship the box with no video card in it and I have no need for a tnt2 32mb card.

Also I chose the 30 gb seagate 7200 RPM ultra ATA100 hard drive over the 40 gb 5400rpm hard drive the system normally comes with at no extra charge because I dont need 40 gigs and I listenned to you dweebs about getting the 7200 rpm hard drive.
     

I asked the salesman to verify the components of the computer...

AMD K7 tbird 1.4ghz,
asus A7A 266ALI DDR/SDRAM ATX mother board,
cooler master fan for socket A CPU,
visiontek gf2 ultra 64ddr,
512mb PC2100 DDR ECC ram,
30 gig Seagate 7200 RPM Ultra ATA/100 hard drive,
Sony dvd-rom,
sounblaster live,
ethernet card,
enlight 300w power supply,
and a 3 year warranty.

the thing i liked most about this computer is that as far as I can tell with my limited computer knowledge everything in it is a component with good quality.

but only time will tell

asus motherboards are also my favorite because I've been using asus in my current p3 computer for years and it has run flawlessly.

I am interested in putting a very good heat sink /fan kit in this computer after it arrives on wednesday if the one it comes with doesn't seem powerful enough. can anyone direct me to a good site with rediculously powerful heatsink fan kit?

the only thing I dont like about AMD is the heat they give off. heat is bad      

[ 09-29-2001: Message edited by: Fester' ]

[SunKing]

www.newegg.com  if you wanna save.

[Trell]

Hey fester
i dont know if you are into overclocking or not  but the mother board i just got is great

its an
ECS SiS735 K7S5A ATX  http://www.ecs.com.tw/

its a non over clocking board but  it is still a fast board and it is only about 60$
it runs eather ddr ram or sdr.
great board

[Thorns]

Gaggle...

Thorns

[bloom25]

Fester, overall that system looks really good.  The only thing that I don't like is the A7A266 board.  I would have rather gone with the A7V266 or A7M266, but I doubt you will notice the tiny performance difference between the A7A and A7M.  (The A7A is cheaper.)  That ECS board (I've never used one personally) is also pretty fast.


There is no reason to pay extra and buy ECC DDR ram.  ECC is only a good thing for a server where data integrity is required over performance at all cost.  (ECC ram is very slightly slower than regular ram.)  A 256 Mb stick of PC2100 is about $40 - 50 these days.

[batdog]

I've the A7A Asus MB and a 1.4g TB processer. I bought me a mean bellybutton heat sink and a fan that wants to fly mt PC. I think www.coolerguys.com  . I bought the globalwin38 one. They have great HS's and fans there.


xBAT

P.S. I use the onboard sound and it does well. My only bottleneck is my TNT Diamond Viper 770 Vid card...