Hows this for a comp??

[ExtremeOC]

am completely REBUILDING my entire computer. not keeping ANYTHING!!!! (except my SBLive! card)
here's what i'm building:

KT7a-RAID
Duron 650
64Meg pc133
300watt PSU w/ case
SBLive! X-Gamer 5.1
Abit Silurio GeForce2 MX
Maxtor 30 7 gig 7200 UDMA100

i'm gonna pay:
1067.75 canadian.
It's not that bad of a comp. I'll buy the ram and video last in case i have some spare money, so i could get more RAM. heres my old comp:

[ReNeG@dE]

looks pretty good, hopefully you can get a couple of hundred more MHz from that Duron though...

This is what I'm getting/have (I SHOULD be getting the T-Bird today and it is the only thing I'm waiting for...)

1GHz T-Bird - New
ABit KT7A-RAID - New
256MB Crucial PC133 CAS2 - New
32MB DDR GeForce (Creative Labs) - Old
SB Live! Value - Old
Quantum KA 6.4GB (66/7200) - Old
Maxtor 20GB (66/7200) - Old
Enlight 7237 - Old (a couple of mods)
Antec 300W PSU - New
Alpha PEP66 w/Delta - New
and a few other things....

my old system had
Slot 1 Celeron 400 (o/ced to 500)
ABit BX6r2
128MB APacer PC100
Touch 250W PSU
and the old stuff from above.

[vvx]

Looks pretty decent, except for the love of god put in more ram!

[Tomsawyer]

indeed 64mb's is kinda scary. Curious on one thing however, seeing how cheap the thunderchickens have become why go duron? I wonder just how much more overclockable they are compared to tbirds.....

[dgk]

Tomsawyer (Feb 06, 2001 09:29 p.m.):
indeed 64mb's is kinda scary. Curious on one thing however, seeing how cheap the thunderchickens have become why go duron? I wonder just how much more overclockable they are compared to tbirds.....

My (limited) understanding is that the TB normally runs at 1.75 volts, while the Duron is 1.55. So, without doing a voltage mod on your board, you have a lot more room to play with a Duron. My A7V is limited to 1.85V, so you can clearly jack up the Duron much higher.