About to buy... need help

[SharkyTM]

greetings all,
Shark here, got a few questions:
1. Is the 266 FSB worth the extra 18$? I'm looking at a T-bird 1.2 at either 200 or 266. Will be using a ABIT kt7a-raid board, and 384 MB crucial pc133 ram, 45GB IBM 75GXP
2. Any problems reported with the kt7a raids?
3. what are the all around best heatsinks(remember the abit board)
4. What paste is best? Arctic Silver? Arctic Silver 2?
5. Are all 1.2 T-birds already unlocked? I saw a post that said that, and im confused

SharkyTM
Athlon K7 950 @ 1050 384 Crucial CAS3 PC133 RAM ABIT ka7-100 (dying) 45GB IBM ATA 100 75GXP HD SBLive! Mp3+, Annihilator2 ddr, plextor 12x10x32x, Creative PC-DVD 12x w/ Dxr3, da da da

[SharkyTM]

Oh yeah, sorry, forgot to mention
Should i go with DDR RAM? and wait for the VIA board?

[Tachyon]

SharkyTM (Mar 09, 2001 10:23 a.m.):
greetings all,
Shark here, got a few questions:
1. Is the 266 FSB worth the extra 18$? I'm looking at a T-bird 1.2 at either 200 or 266. Will be using a ABIT kt7a-raid board, and 384 MB crucial pc133 ram, 45GB IBM 75GXP
2. Any problems reported with the kt7a raids?
3. what are the all around best heatsinks(remember the abit board)
4. What paste is best? Arctic Silver? Arctic Silver 2?
5. Are all 1.2 T-birds already unlocked? I saw a post that said that, and im confused

SharkyTM
Athlon K7 950 @ 1050 384 Crucial CAS3 PC133 RAM ABIT ka7-100 (dying) 45GB IBM ATA 100 75GXP HD SBLive! Mp3+, Annihilator2 ddr, plextor 12x10x32x, Creative PC-DVD 12x w/ Dxr3, da da da

You'll get a lot of different opinions...that's for sure. With every board, there are people that have problems and others that don't. In the end, it's your money and you should make your own choices :)

A.S. I and A.S. II perform ~1C of each other...There are good deals on A.S. I which makes it a bargain gram for gram.

I have read that the 45MB drives don't care for overclocking, but I haven't tested one so I can't validate that.

Terry

[diehrd]

gET THE 266/FSB

[SharkyTM]

Ok, thanks for the quick replies, heres the deal
1. bought Arctic Silver 2, and an alpha 6035 w/ the sanyo (ultra-quiet 20cfm)
2. are the 1.2's unlocked?
3. whats this about the 45's not likeing o-c'ing?

shark

[Tachyon]

I've read (but have not tested to verify) that there are problems overclocking the 45MB drives. Yoiu may want to get 2 smaller IBM drives if you're planning to set up in RAID 0.

Terry

[SharkyTM]

what about the tbirds being already unlocked?
I've found a few posts with people saying that they successfully oc'ed the 45 GB's... and i wont use the raid, just need the extra ata100 slots :-)
SharkyTM

[diehrd]

I have just today recieved the 1.2 266/fsb processor and it is unlocked.I am at 10.5 and 133 fsb =1.4 I use the ABIT KT7A M/B.and the alpha heat sink my temps are great 41c with prime 95.

[SharkyTM]

Hellz jeeah,
Shark here,
Just went for broke...
kt7a-raid=$160(us) shipped
t-bird 1.2 266mhz bus (another 15$ for the 266... i went for it)=$231 Sunsetmarketing
Alpha 6035 w/ Sanyo fan 35$
Arctic Silver II... 8$
^_^

Pray it all comes in 1 piece........ updates next weekend, k?
:-)