4 Chips + 4 Boards + 5 Stick of Ram + video cards ?

Yesterday i bought the 1800+ from newegg (boxed, according to the reviews its JIUHB) and a epox 8rda+.

I need some suggestion on build the best comps with these parts

Athlon XP 2200+ AIRGA 0234
Athlon XP 2100+ AIUHB 0249
Athlon XP 1800+ Unknown yet
Athlon TBird 1400 AYHJA (not 100% positive)

Epox 8rda+
Msi KT4 Ultra
Msi KT3 Ultra 2
Msi KT3 Ultra 2

Corsair 512MB PC3200 CAS2
Corsair 512MB PC3200 CAS2
Crucial 256MB PC2700 CAS2.5
Crucial 256MB PC2100 CAS2.5
KByte 256MB PC2100 CAS3

PNY GeForce 4 Ti 4200 (64MB DDR 4x)
PNY GeForce 2 Pro (64MB DDR)
PNY GeForce 4 MX440 SE (64MB DDR)
+one more video card, can't decide on which one to get yet.. help ?

i want to build 4 GOOD COMPS not one good one and 3 crappy one

Holy crap man you have all those parts lying around?

Did you knock over a Compusa or what.... sell me some.

Any combination of those parts would be pretty good, but the weakest components would be the TBird and the Cas3 ram.

The 2100 and the new 1800 will be the best overclocking chips, that tbred A 2200+ probably won't top 2 gigs. The other two might do 2.4 if you are lucky. But well over 2 gigs easy.

I suggest you take all the best parts and put them in one system, then all the second best parts and put them in the second system and so on.

Why? Because if you put good parts in with crap parts then the good stuff will just be bottlenecked and useless. The crap parts will limit performance and overclockability. Combine quality with quality and you will get more total performance out of all 4 machines.

If you plan to overclock these then you have a lot of testing to do to see which chips boards and ram and video cards overclock the highest.

To start with I would take the 8rda+, whichever of the 2100 or 1800 overclocks best, the better of the two corsair sticks and buy yourself a 9700 pro.... you would have youself one of the best computers around.

From there, the 1800 or 2100 w/ kt4 ultra, the other corsair stick, and the ti4200.

Then 2200+ w/ the best kt3 ultra 2, crucial pc2700 & crucial pc2100 (assuming they work well together), gf4 mx440.

then tbird 1.4 w/ the other kt3 ultra 2, kbyte pc2100, gf2 pro.

If you were not planning to overclock then everything changes, but I don't know why you would be posting here if you weren't. Good Luck!

PS. >>> do you run a distributed computing app? with all those computers we could use you on the SETI team. check www.ocsetiteam.com or PM me for info or read/post in the SETI section of these forums if you are interested!

I heard the 9700 PRO score around 8000 in 2001 3dmarkSE with the epox 8rda+ and it cost around $280 so i don't think i will get one. according to hardocp.com's review of 9600 PRO it does very good (overclocked) agaienst the 9700 pro. and cost less then $200


System 1
Epox 8rda+
Athlon XP 2100+ (11.5x200) hopefully
2xCorsair 512MB PC3200 CAS2
PNY GeForce 4 TI 4200 (or 9600 PRO?)

System 2
Msi KT4 Ultra
Athlon XP 1800+
Crucial 256MB PC2700 CAS2.5

System 3
Msi KT3 Ultra 2
Athlon XP 2200+ AIRGA 0234
KByte 256MB PC2100 CAS3
PNY GeForce 4 MX440 SE (64MB DDR)

Msi KT3 Ultra 2
Athlon TBird 1400 AYHJA (not 100% positive)
Crucial 256MB PC2100 CAS2.5
PNY GeForce 2 Pro (64MB DDR)

ive never seen a 9700 score 8000 at normal settings

its the second best card out, worth getting

ah, well the 9600 is a good looking card, personally i would go up one step and at least get the 9700 non-pro... those overclock as well and have the same functionality as the 9700 PRO.... 8 texture pipes etc, unlike the 9600. worth the extra money imo, much better performance.

one thing, why bother having 1 gig of ram in that first system? its really not too useful to have that much ram unless you are working with huge photoshop or video files often. it would be better to put one of the corsair 3200 sticks in system #2 so that you can overclock the FSB on both of them nice and high. also, i will say this again, test the overclocks on these components.... that 1800+ might overclock better than the 2100+.... you never know.

in benchmarks i saw that dualchannel Epox 8rda+ did better then single channel ddr. that is why i want 2 stick of ram in there.

Hc000 said:

in benchmarks i saw that dualchannel Epox 8rda+ did better then single channel ddr. that is why i want 2 stick of ram in there.

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there is a negligible difference, not worth it really.