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Jul 16, 2003, 12:27 AM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
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New motherboard and CPU
I ordered a new motherboard and CPU tonight give me you coments
AT7-MAX2 ABIT R
Barton 3000
This should be a good set up.
I already have a 9700 pro and 2 512 ddr 2700 chips
I should have one hell of a good system.
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Jul 16, 2003, 01:12 AM
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DH Mafia Don
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Don't know jackshit about ABIT boards, but that seems like a good rig, edperks. 1 gig or RAM makes almost all intese games (ala Unreal 2, Halo, Freelancer) run smooth, 9700 Pro makes them look good and the Barton 3K+ makes them run good!
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Jul 16, 2003, 01:23 AM
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DH's Dormant Dragon
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Lets just say, it's an EXCELLENT board.... i've got one as well.. (see sig).... Boards stable and not to mention, extremely feature rich.... but you NEED a good case to handle it all...
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Jul 16, 2003, 01:47 AM
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very nice setup man!
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Jul 16, 2003, 02:10 AM
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i am also bying a new motherboard for my brother but i cant decide between Asus ASUS A7N8X Deluxe nForce2 Motherboard and msi (K7N2 Delta). can any1 advice me.. also i am not much of an overclocker also which of them has a better onboard sound?
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Jul 16, 2003, 02:55 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by aligodil
i am also bying a new motherboard for my brother but i cant decide between Asus ASUS A7N8X Deluxe nForce2 Motherboard and msi (K7N2 Delta). can any1 advice me.. also i am not much of an overclocker also which of them has a better onboard sound?
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Asus ASUS A7N8X Deluxe , no doubt about it |
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Jul 17, 2003, 12:15 AM
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Newegg.com say I will get my new cpu and motherboard tommrow I have beenl ooking around and now found out thar the MAX2 only supports 333 FSB cpu I have ordered a 3000+ Barton with 400 FSB do you think rhey will have bios fix for 400 FSB !!!
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Jul 17, 2003, 03:31 AM
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DH's Dormant Dragon
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The Abit AT7-Max2 can support the 400 mhz .... you just have to make it work....
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Jul 17, 2003, 07:46 AM
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Thanks Judas I cant wait till it get here !!
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Jul 17, 2003, 12:17 PM
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Nice combo!!  |
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Jul 17, 2003, 06:52 PM
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Well I got the Motherboard and CPU in today and I have some good and bad news The good is there was nothing wrong with my prior motherboard it was the power supply. So now I have a P4X400 Dragon Lite and Pent 2.4B 533fsb that I can sell on ebay. The bad new is I have to order a New Power Supply and HSF and That stuff wont get here till monday or tuesday :-( And on another note what is a good HSF for a barton 3000+ 400 FSB. Anywho I using an old Compaq presario 500Mhz amd with onboard video till The Power supply and HSF come in.
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Jul 18, 2003, 02:36 AM
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I'm Still Watching
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nforce 2 board...Im loving mine...a good cooling thats not to expensive Vantec aeroflow TMD is what I have running on mine....keeps it nice and cool and its quiet
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Jul 18, 2003, 02:39 AM
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DH's Dormant Dragon
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Hey, Make sure you get the latest Bios from Abit (i think it's currently DD...support the THORTON CPU as well? )
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Jul 18, 2003, 02:42 AM
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It certainly does! My bro just upgraded his main rig to a NF7-S, AMD Barton 3000, 1gig of PC3200 and it's running SWEET!! Snappy as can be.
To edperks: I would suggest getting some PC3200 RAM to support the 333FSB better and with more lee-way to overclock, if that's your thing. Otherwise, sounds like a good setup. :tup: |
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Jul 18, 2003, 04:48 PM
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I think I will look at the Vantec aeroflow have any of you guys herd of the Thermaltake SubZero4G It looks pretty damn good cost alot though.
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Jul 18, 2003, 04:56 PM
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DriverHeaven Granddaddy
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My last two boards have been ABIT boards. I'm very happy with the overall performance of them, too.
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