Hey, I just got my 1700+ from the fedex folks today. Ordered for newegg like tuesday night or something.
New stuff:
$89 MAXTOP rack server case (something different, I put my monitor ontop of it like a desktop, only has one fan on the front but it's filtered.. no opening on the back for a fan plus it is very spacious.)
ENERMAX EG365P-VE(FM). 350W Power supply, (the one with dual fans...)
256 curcial micron ddr pc2700 ram.
Old stuff...
Some cheapo PNY pc2700 256M stick of RAM,
K7s5a motherboard, original version...
older, but efficient copper heatsink with a generic (loud) fan on top of it.
Geforce2 gts-v, and a geforce4 mx 420 pci...
and sold the old 128 pc2100 and thunderbird 1.13 of to my roomate.
As soon as I got it and put it together I did some benchmarks using quake, and got good results. everything seems to be ok. So I went and installed Honey X's latest k7s5a bios and eventually put the buss speeds at 147mhz (150 caused a kernel panic when trying to access the harddrive, so it is a motherboard issue and not a proccessor one.) which gave me a total 1613.205 mhz proccessor and it registers as a 2000+ on my bios screen. No voltage or multiplier mods. It idles around 40 degrees, and peaks out around 43 after extended quake timedemos. Everything seems stable so far, the cpu temps are that high due to the lack of air flow, I am betting that it would go down to about 36-38 degrees inside a proper case and a nicer fan. But i bought this case looking forward to nice and quiet water cooling with a external resevior and rad, so air flow realy isn't a issue and I am pleased with the results. Pretty nice for a low-buck set up I suppose.
With my aging GTS-v overclocked to 200mhz cpu and the ddr memory at 340, it scores 232 fps at quake3 on "normal mode" at 640x480 using the demo4 (?) (not sure which one it is, but it is the only one I got. named 4.d_68)
And for all you linux geeks here I score a cool 3217.81 bogomips at startup. 2900 or so not overclocked.
Hopefully when I get my water cooling setup, well, setup, I'll run it at 2100+ and feel confortable about leaving it on 24/7.