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§unnyß©
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 7:38 am    Post subject: What's the best chip type & motherborad Reply with quote
I have an Abit NF7-S v2 with an AMD XP-M 3000 cpu.

I want to build another with either an AMD 939, 940 or an AM2.
Which AMD cpu is the best and which Abit board is best for that cpu.

I would like a 2Mb cache cpu if possible. Newegg has them all but
I don't know which.

I have a brand new Abit KW7 board, an AMD XP3200 cpu and
an ATI X800XT 256Mb 8x agp video but I don't want to build it if
I can just build a better one.

THanks

§Rß
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 9:26 am    Post subject: Re: What's the best chip type & motherborad Reply with quote
§unnyß© wrote:
Quote:
I have an Abit NF7-S v2 with an AMD XP-M 3000 cpu.

I want to build another with either an AMD 939, 940 or an AM2.
Which AMD cpu is the best and which Abit board is best for that cpu.

I would like a 2Mb cache cpu if possible. Newegg has them all but
I don't know which.

I have a brand new Abit KW7 board, an AMD XP3200 cpu and
an ATI X800XT 256Mb 8x agp video but I don't want to build it if
I can just build a better one.

THanks

§Rß

There are single core and dual core processors. Which might be
where you're seeing the 2MB cache.

But the first question would be whether you expect to use the
X800XT AGP or not. AGP motherboards in S939 for example, are getting
harder to find. AGP with AM2 might be tough also.

This is what Newegg has for S939 and AGP:

EPoX EP-9NDA3I Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce3 250 ATX
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813123263

For AM2 socket, the picking are similarly slim:

MSI K9MM-V Socket AM2 and BIOSTAR K8M800 Micro AM2
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&N=2010200022+1070921489+1073407577&Subcategory=22

Certainly you can search for older S939 AGP motherboards and
perhaps find one somewhere. Or go with an Intel processor
of some sort and find an AGP board for LGA775 (there are
still some of those).

At this point, your existing hardware is looking pretty good.
Might as well enjoy that X800XT with your AthlonXP.

Or sell the X800XT AGP and pick up a PCI Express video card.
Then you might have more options.

The industry maximizes profits, by causing users to do
"forklift" upgrades (i.e. replace everything), so this
stuff should not come as a surprise.

Paul
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Damaeus
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:20 pm    Post subject: Re: What's the best chip type & motherborad Reply with quote
In news:alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit, Paul <nospam@needed.com> posted on
Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:26:33 -0500:

Quote:
The industry maximizes profits, by causing users to do
"forklift" upgrades (i.e. replace everything), so this
stuff should not come as a surprise.

You ain't just whistlin' Dixie!

I just rebuilt mine and the only thing I was able to reuse was one of my
hard drives, the case, and power supply, oh and the modem, for now. This
PC doesn't even have a parallel port. If I want to be able to use the same
printer, I'm going to have to pull the modem from my only PCI slot so I can
stick a card in there with a parallel port. So yeah, I've already got a
USB modem sitting on the bed behind me.

I'm just glad that the last hard drive I bought, I also got a SATA PCI card
cuz my Abit NF-7 didn't have on-board SATA. But dropping from five PCI
slots to only one has really hurt. I do have a couple of those little tiny
PCIe x1 slots, though, and two PCIe x16 slots for SLi. I'm not sure if
I'll ever use that feature, though. Though I now have what you might call
a good gaming system, ironically I don't spend a whole lot of time playing
those GPU-intensive games. I do, however, like knowing that when I finally
see one that looks interesting, I know my system will handle it.

Damaeus
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Processor AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Dual Core
Graphics nVidia GeForce 7950GTOC
Memory 2GB DDR2 800 PC6400
Hard Drives 2x 320GB Western Digital SATA
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