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proze

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yeah, baby! i sold my duron 750 and micro-atx mobo yesterday and am upgrading to a tbird 1ghz-1.2ghz axia and an 8kta3pro!

hehehe... so i'll have my duron@1102 which does 6.3 hour wus on average, and a tbird@+-1.5ghz doing even lower!!

yay!! :) :) :) :) :)
 
proze said:
yeah, baby! i sold my duron 750 and micro-atx mobo yesterday and am upgrading to a tbird 1ghz-1.2ghz axia and an 8kta3pro!

hehehe... so i'll have my duron@1102 which does 6.3 hour wus on average, and a tbird@+-1.5ghz doing even lower!!

yay!! :) :) :) :) :)

Sounds great. We need all the extra WU's that we can get. Keep thosse WU's a comin.
 
Congrats Paul lloks like it will be sweet!!!!

You'll have to take that "single lowly Duron" line out of your nick...
:) :D
 
Cool - every little bit helps. I was even going to "add" one of my machines back tonight. Didn't go over too well. This box has my Palomino which crunches better than all my other Athlon boxes. I noticed a new bios version for the Epox 8k7a that added support for SSE and the Athlon MP - so I decided to flash and see if it improved Seti times. Don't know what went wrong, but the flash hung half way through writing. Tried a recovery with the awdflash set to go in autoexec.bat but that just sits there too - almost like this board has a fault that won't let it flash the eeprom. Oh well - got to wait a week for a new chip. Second time I've botched a bios flash lately :( Fortunately I pulled a bios chip from another 8k7a with a slower cpu and exchanged it so my best Athlon is crunching while I wait :)
 
tc.. giz a hand.. you have loads of pcs, so you're a good person to ask: not just for seti, how do ddr systems compare to sdram systems?

i could get an 8kha instead of an 8kta3pro and bankrupt myself.. would it be worth the extra?!

ta!
 
proze said:
tc.. giz a hand.. you have loads of pcs, so you're a good person to ask: not just for seti, how do ddr systems compare to sdram systems?

i could get an 8kha instead of an 8kta3pro and bankrupt myself.. would it be worth the extra?!

ta!

How about the 8K7A board? I like the AMD 761 chipset better than the via KT266 or the ALi Majik. I use the 8K7A, and I know that TC has a few of them. This is an awesome board and it is only about 10 bucks more than the 8KHA.
 
proze said:
tc.. giz a hand.. you have loads of pcs, so you're a good person to ask: not just for seti, how do ddr systems compare to sdram systems?

i could get an 8kha instead of an 8kta3pro and bankrupt myself.. would it be worth the extra?!

ta!

Check out this article there is a new chipset out for the athlons, sis made a ddr/sdram chipset that performs well acroding to anandtech. It is really cheap too. Here is a link to the ECS Socket A K7S5A SiS® 735 chipset motherboard it runs $65 and performs like the AMD 760 :D :D :D :D :D :D
 
Basher said:


Check out this article there is a new chipset out for the athlons, sis made a ddr/sdram chipset that performs well acroding to anandtech. It is really cheap too. Here is a link to the ECS Socket A K7S5A SiS® 735 chipset motherboard it runs $65 and performs like the AMD 760 :D :D :D :D :D :D

No disrespect to anyone using a SiS chipset board - but if you are looking for power performance, SiS is at the low end. SiS has been synonomous with value boards - not to say that it is not reliable, just not high end.
 
chawken said:


How about the 8K7A board? I like the AMD 761 chipset better than the via KT266 or the ALi Majik. I use the 8K7A, and I know that TC has a few of them. This is an awesome board and it is only about 10 bucks more than the 8KHA.

i would, but over here it costs a lot more than 10 bucks more.. it's outta my price-range.. :(

it's 8kta3pro or 8kha at a stretch...
 
Dang how much are they getting for boards where you are? I've seen the 8K7A for $99 around here. I didn't think boards of any kind got much cheaper than that...
 
TC said:
Dang how much are they getting for boards where you are? I've seen the 8K7A for $99 around here. I didn't think boards of any kind got much cheaper than that...

Damn TC - where are you seeing those prices? The web vendors that I have seen, the board runs for about 125.00 + shipping. If you have a source that is that cheap - point me in their direction. You got more toys than I do - I could get a couple more if there was cheaper prices.
 
This was two weeks ago at a store in Atlanta called CompuLead. They don't have an online store that I know of, and I doubt they take phone orders - just a walk in place. However an online store named BzBoyz had them for $114 last time I looked - think it was on sale though. All the other stores are around $120+
 
let's see... quick currency conversion..

the 8k7a+ would cost me US$160.. and the 8kha only US$130. it might not seem that much of a difference, but i'm gonna be stretched as it is..
 
proze said:
let's see... quick currency conversion..

the 8k7a+ would cost me US$160.. and the 8kha only US$130. it might not seem that much of a difference, but i'm gonna be stretched as it is..

Just noticed your location - duh for me eh m8 :p I was just assuming you were talking US dollars.
 
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