T-bird or Duron?? NO joke,hehe

[Rottys-R-Us]

Ok my 2 or so month old K6 2-500 board took a dump which I had my spare K6 2-233 in since I chipped my 500. So instead of goung back to either it's either the duron or T-bird with a new mobo. $$$ is a lill tight, my wife sold a few stocks,NOT "DOT com" either, that's a JOKE son, so I have a few Hundred to spend, looking @ a barebones sys, old sys is AT style.It wont be for a few weeks anyway so I am looking now, I know the Duron 600 will go up to 900 + T-birds around the same. Thanks !!

[Thelemac]

It looks like you have two choices here...get a 1Ghz Tbird 266 and get it up to 1.4 or something like that or get a Duron 600 and get it up to about a Gig. I think the Tbird is about 170 and the Duron is about 40. Other than that, the rest of your system will remain the same either way you go.

[SickBoy]

You're gonna need an ATX case with your mobo and processor.... no AT socket A board even exists.

SickBoy

[Rottys-R-Us]

SickBoy (Apr 17, 2001 11:26 p.m.):
You're gonna need an ATX case with your mobo and processor.... no AT socket A board even exists.

SickBoy

I know that you "silly" boy,lol :-)

how does this sys look? Founf it on Price-watch.
Description :
EPOX 8KTA+ MOTHERBOARD , AMD DURON 700 MHz ( Upgrades To 750, 800, and 850
MHz Available). Supports Socket A Processors. AMD Athlon. VIA Apollo KT133
AGPset. Full ATX Form Factor, 1 Floppy drive controller, 1 Parallel port
(EPP, ECP), 2 Serial ports 2 USB supported onboard, 2 additional as option,
Award PnP BIOS. Flash upgradeable, 120MB ATAPI floppy drive and ZIP support,
305mm x 220mm ATX, 200MHz Front Side Bus. (3) DIMM Slots for SDRAM 1500MB
max. supported, 1 PS/2 mouse, 1 PS/2 keyboard, (6) (32-bit) PCI, (1) ISA, &
(1) AGP supports 1x, 2x and 4x modes. The barebone is assembled in an ATX
Bluewave cas (4) 5" Bays + (2) 3" Bays + (1) Hidden. 250 Watt Power Supply.
Two Side Panel come off For easy access. Assembled and Tested

$200.00. + $35.00S&H.

[Wega!]

I don't know about that motherboard..... As far as I can tell, it dosen't have the KT133A chipset, witch is bad. I also think it only supports IDE66.
CPU: I think u should either get a 700MHz, 800MHz or a 850MHz, cuz I have tried 2 750MHz and they are very bad when it comes to overclocking. (Could only hit 900MHz).
Another thing is the PSU, I think it's a little small, get a 300W instead.

What about RAM, and HD's?

[asmodean]

Go for 1Ghz/266 AXIA Thunderbird atleast, with Abit KT7A(-Raid) or Iwill KK266(R).

Be sure to invest in the PSU also...

[devilfire]

hey, i have a tbird 1ghz (200fsb), and a duron 600. I ran the tbird for a few months without overclocking cuz i have a really bad cooling system (50C idle), and i didn't want to mess with the L1 bridges on my good cpu, so i bought a 40 dollar duron. I got a bigger hsf too. The night i got it i pushed it to 1.1ghz easily...so i think if your going to overclock go for a duron since they are cheaper, cheaper keychain..just in case. As far as a motherboard goes get a brand everybody knows, Asus or Abit. A board from pricewatch probably wouldn't be the best one. You can get a Asus A7V and duron 600 for under 150 on ebay...

[Goldwing]

Don't forget the barebones system will likely have a cheap HSF that you will have to replace...you know that you will o/c it regardless of what you get.

I also would go for a motherboard with KT133a chipset if not a DDR board.

[Rottys-R-Us]

Thanks dudes for all the answers. As far as the HD's, keeping my 2, 128 mb sdram also keeping. Leaning to the Duron, yes it would make for a cheaper key chain."THANKS again"