Cpu

[keyser_soze]

I've heard about athlon's being more powerfull than durons disregarding the the cpu speed, my motherboard supports a 1.4 athlon cpu(max) and now has a 1.3 duron installed is it worth getting an athlon 1.4 or is it time for a new motherboard?? and how noticeable would the difference of the 1.4A be??
Thanks for any help..

[Somebody1234]

You might have difficulty finding an AMD thunderbird 1400 these days. I also don't think it would worth the difference.

Check out the ECS K7S5A Pro V5.0 mainboard. It supports Athlon XP up to 2600+ @266fsb for less than $60.00

http://www.ecs.com.tw/products/pd_spec.asp...?product_id=269 (http://www.ecs.com.tw/products/pd_spec.asp?product_id=269)

http://www1.dealtime.com/xPO-Elitegroup_20758958

And it's a good board.

[namzuf9]

Originally posted by Somebody1234@23 August 2003 - 03:19
You might have difficulty finding an AMD thunderbird 1400 these days. I also don't think it would worth the difference.

Check out the ECS K7S5A Pro V5.0 mainboard. It supports Athlon XP up to 2600+ @266fsb for less than $60.00

http://www.ecs.com.tw/products/pd_spec.asp...?product_id=269 (http://www.ecs.com.tw/products/pd_spec.asp?product_id=269)

http://www1.dealtime.com/xPO-Elitegroup_20758958

And it's a good board.
I've got a K7S5A in my system (an eariler version) and it is a great mobo if you're building on a tight budget. The only thing I would recommend is making sure you have a PSU thats up to the job of powering the juice hunguary K7S5A and XP chip. A good quality 350watt PSU should be up to it, but if you fit a lot of devices to the board (PCI cards,disk drives etc.) Consider paying out for the most powerful PSU you can afford.

[Lamsey]

Make sure you have good cooling with the K7S5A! It uses the SiS 735 chipset, which has the northbridge and the southbridge combined into one chip.

This is lightning-fast, but it also heats it up a fair bit as they just put a small passive heatsink on top of it.

[Somebody1234]

Hey Lamsey, how you doin'?

I have used that board quite a lot. The latest version 5.0 board actually runs quite cool compared to some other boards I have installed. And yes I have checked that the chipset heatsink has good thermal transfer.

[Lamsey]

Originally posted by Somebody1234@4 September 2003 - 01:26
Hey Lamsey, how you doin'?

I have used that board quite a lot. The latest version 5.0 board actually runs quite cool compared to some other boards I have installed. And yes I have checked that the chipset heatsink has good thermal transfer.
Cool, I've only personally experienced the 3.1 version of the board, and it used to get a wee tad hot without some good cooling - I think they used to use crappy tape to attach the heatsink...