Best CPU Currently To Overclock? [03/06/2001]

[ominous]

Is there currently a "best bet" to purchase on the Intel side? I've seen numerous people grabbing 700s and doing considerable amounts with them, but is there something better to work with or?

I'm in the planning phase of purchasing the next system. I don't want to make another 20 mistakes. I'd like socket 370, a mobo capable of handling the most voltage/fsb stability wise, the most options with the most tweaks (I guess I'm looking at about a single 1g P3 on a Abit VP6 with PC133 (cheap)).

There's probably better than what I just spu'd out, but it's just a hip-shot so far. I'm also going to try to find a noise-control silverado (http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q1/010306/index.html) (see image below) to cool it which got some great reviews.

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The case, well methinks any old 300W large tower will do. Large tower not for any other reason than looks. I've always gotten mini-mids. Regardless....... GeForce 3 once it goes retail/local, for now I'll stick in a MX with some tweaking (very good results with that).

Anything I'm overlooking? The HD will be a 7200 minimum, hopefully I can step into good old fashioned u2-scsi 10,000RPM "something". I've always had a 5400 which takes me almost 30 seconds just to load counter-strike....grr.

Recommendations? I'm taking them all. Thanks in advance.

Jay / ominous
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[Phil]

on the p3 front the 700 is probabally the best as it normally runs at about 933 and quite often goes up to a gig, the vp6 is an ok board and you can always upgrade to a second chip in the future but you should note smp hardly affects games, even q3 which supports it actually suffers worse performance with high speed p3's probabally a limiting factor of the gtl+ bus that I would expect the athlon chips not to suffer from