Does this sound good?

[It_The_Cow]

I'm planning on upgrading to an AMD system. I've decided to not embellish myself and get an AXIA 1ghz (200 version) and an Abit KT7E. I don't plan to overclock it that much and I'll stick with air-cooling for now. I'm vacillating between the Iwill KK266(R?) so that I'll have more options if I were to decide to overcock some more. Any suggestions?

 

[TranceBear]

A great choice on the chip, I swear my those. If you can still find a AVIA-y, they tend to be better than most AXIA's. Good Luck.

 

[ManOfKnight]

sounds good...RAID a possiblity? also get yourself a good HSF and a 400 watt PS so you have room to work with

 

[overdoing_it]

I'm actually going to buy a KT7E with Duron 600MHz (od future) in a couple of days. So both you and I will be together!

-Michael Axiak

 

[bruce]

The KT7E is good and can reach a 133mhz bus, but the Iwill (IMHO) is better, it can reach a 160Mhz bus stable if your cards can handle it. BTW I own an Iwill KK266 (no R) so I'm slightly biased, but there isn't much difference in price and the Iwill will get you a little faster and it has C-Media 4.1 onboard sound. As for the R (raid), that's up to you, you'll get faster read/writes but you also get slower seek times, so it doesn't help much, but you can use the IDE Raid headers as standard IDE headers to support 8 IDE Devices. The Iwill will get you farther in the long run, and I'd go with that, but all in all it sounds like a good setup, Goodluck!

 

[SickBoy]

Personally, in my opionion, you shouldn't spend exorbitant amounts of cash on an SDRAM system at this point. DDR is cheap, it's fast, and it's available. I'd say stick with the KT7E and save your money, six months down the road you'll probably want something newer and faster. Otherwise, DDR Mobos and sticks of DDR are getting dang cheap lately.

SickBoy