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Plan for upgrading my PC
I'm thinking of upgrading my current PC. I play a couple games
basically other than that basic stuff. Asus A7v 800 MHZ geforce gts2 64 meg 256 Meg PC133 memory Antec 300 Watt power supply 2 case fans I currently do NOT overclock. I never want to overclock either. I have already ordered a new powercolor 9700 video card and have a 430W Power supply from Antec coming. Here are my next plans: Get an Intel (real Intel) 865PERL motherboard with 2.4 800 FSB Pentium 4. Get 512 Meg (2 256 meg DIMMS) of DDR400 memory. The main reason to get all this is to go back to a stabil platform. I've spend way too much time over the last 2 years trying to get my setup stabil. It is stabil now when I have a big fan aimed at the side of it but now I think it's time to go to the old trusty Intel stuff. |
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I have done this. I have also read where Intel has warned Asus and Abit not
to enable PAT like they are doing. These mtoehrboard manufacturers try to enalbe stuff that eventually leads to problems and compatibility problems. After I am done I will sell the currnet mobo, video card, memory, etc on eBay or something. "PWY" wrote in message . com... "Alien Zord" wrote in message ... "Grendel" wrote in message m... I'm thinking of upgrading my current PC. I play a couple games basically other than that basic stuff. Asus A7v 800 MHZ geforce gts2 64 meg 256 Meg PC133 memory Antec 300 Watt power supply 2 case fans I currently do NOT overclock. I never want to overclock either. I have already ordered a new powercolor 9700 video card and have a 430W Power supply from Antec coming. Here are my next plans: Get an Intel (real Intel) 865PERL motherboard with 2.4 800 FSB Pentium 4. Get 512 Meg (2 256 meg DIMMS) of DDR400 memory. The main reason to get all this is to go back to a stabil platform. I've spend way too much time over the last 2 years trying to get my setup stabil. It is stabil now when I have a big fan aimed at the side of it but now I think it's time to go to the old trusty Intel stuff. Don't bother upgrading, sell the PC because in upgrading you would change everything anyway. And don't get an Intel board, simple, downright crude. Get an Intel chipset Gigabyte instead. As reliable as Intel and considerably more versatile with more options. Tom's Hardware.com has a review of 24 motherboards with the Intel 865 and 875 chipsets, fir 800 MHz front side bus. I suggest you read this before making your final decision. -- PWY |
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kony wrote in message . ..
On 8 Jul 2003 10:01:50 -0700, (Grendel) wrote: I'm thinking of upgrading my current PC. I play a couple games basically other than that basic stuff. Asus A7v 800 MHZ geforce gts2 64 meg 256 Meg PC133 memory Antec 300 Watt power supply 2 case fans I currently do NOT overclock. I never want to overclock either. I have already ordered a new powercolor 9700 video card and have a 430W Power supply from Antec coming. Here are my next plans: Get an Intel (real Intel) 865PERL motherboard with 2.4 800 FSB Pentium 4. Get 512 Meg (2 256 meg DIMMS) of DDR400 memory. The main reason to get all this is to go back to a stabil platform. I've spend way too much time over the last 2 years trying to get my setup stabil. It is stabil now when I have a big fan aimed at the side of it but now I think it's time to go to the old trusty Intel stuff. So to combat instability caused by overheating, you're going to buy a system that produces MORE heat? Uhhhhhhh, OK! Your system needs more cooling. Don't bother to upgrade anything till the chassis cooling can accomodate what you already have. The idea that Intel systems run cooler is largely nonsense, they only IDLE cooler, and only in some instances, not always. Once that intel plus Radeon 9700 is running near full, it'll probably produce twice as much heat. I wrote, TWICE AS MUCH. You'd better get the cooling straighted out, figure out why it's running hot... it's a PITA to start out with a new build not even knowing if the hardware is faulty or not because it's overheating. If your present system has been overheating long-term, it may have long-term heat stress, which prematurely aged it, resulting in it always being less-than-stable. New system components might then be more stable simply because they aren't damaged from heat YET, but if you don't do a better job of cooling them, they too will be heat-stressed. Dave Can someone recommend a cheap upgrade for me? Something I can get for $100-$200 for the whole thing. Mobo, CPU and memory? Something maybe DDR266 or DDR333 based? Reliability is the key objective. I'd also like some RAID capability. |
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Plus I have both covers off. Put them on. You can't force air to flow through the case if they're off. -C |
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I tryed that at one point too. Still locks up. Too much heat cause the mobo
and CPU temp goes up. "Coyote" wrote in message news Plus I have both covers off. Put them on. You can't force air to flow through the case if they're off. -C |
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