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[patrickholliway]

i am a new member here. I currently have a gateway 200mhz with a pentium 1. Don't laugh this thing was expensive way back then. Anyways, I am tired of the error messages, page faults, close outs, lock ups, etc., etc., etc. I have just ordered an aus cusl2 motherboard and I am currently looking for a good processor. I am looking at the Pentium III 933mhz. Can anyone tell me if this is a good choice, or suggest a better one? The Gateway tech says that the case I have is standard ATX but I will have to boost my power supply. From the few forrums that I got a chance to read tonight it sounds like this is an important piece to overclocking. Will a 300w be sufficient?
Anyways, I look forward to learning from all of you experienced people. It will be a while before I feel I have lurned enough to start trying to overclock my new stuff --- but I will get there. I must --- I am so tired of being slow!!!

[mark]

yes asus makes great motherboards, you will most likely need to get a new power supply, 250w may work, but get a 300w or more. if you are looking use the new mb, cpu, psu in an old dell case, make sure you have the room. (7 slots in the back, room for a standard atx power supply). also i hope you didn't call dell and have to pay for the phone tech stuff, if you have any questions, ask in here...
welcome to the forum.
mark

[The Doors]

Hi patrickholliway, wellcome to the Forum,
The Asus Mobo's are really good and with a lot of OC settings, but I suggest you to go with the newer TUSL2-C i815EP then the CUSL2 i815E, coz supports the new Tulatin chip's.
About the chip to go, well you must consider that if you wanna Oc a P/// 933Mhz that works with a Fsb of 133Mhz you need of mem modules that works up to 150Mhz or more, coz you Oc it rising the Fsb from the original 133Mhz to 140, 150 or 166!
You need also of a great heat sink like a ThermalRight SK6 or a Millenium Glaciator and a thin layer of thermal paste to hold the temperature the lowest possible, generally around 40-45 degree C max.

I hope it helps you, this is only my point of view and I suggest you to check the other suggestion that you can gain by the guys of overclockers.com :cool:

[outhouse]

300W should meat all your needs as far as your PSU. As far as what CPU to choose from check the CPU database and see what others have done with that CPU as well as what there running to get to the speeds there at.

[Pinky]

I use 250W power supplies, never needed more.

You may want to consider getting a whole new case, motherboard, and CPU combo. You should be able to use the ram, harddrive, floppy, video card, soundcard, CDROM, etc in the new rig if you have the drivers for these items.

I suggest keeping away from prefab PCs. Building your own will give you greater flexibility for tweaking and future upgrading.

[patrickholliway]

Thanks for the info so far. I went ahead and closed the deal on the cusl2-c board. It has a video card that is coming with it. I worked on this before the suggestion of the tus board but hopefully this will work for learning purposes anyways. And for 75 dollars i figures i can't go too wrong. I currently have a bid on ebay for the pIII 933 mhz with 133 fsb, and for (2) 256k ram modules that are from kingston with the flip chip socket 370 to match the board. I think that this will get me off to a start. Besides I am going to that from a 200 mhz pentium I with 64k ram , so I will probably be dumbfounded with just normal performance, let alone alittle tweeking.

I will be hanging around - taking in all that I can!!

Thanks again
Patrick