- Jun 24, 2002
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Well it seems that I have been in Intel land a little too long and have lost touch with my AMD side...but now I'm back and am looking for a little help. I currently have:
Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHZ@2.83GHZ on a Swftech MCX478 Heatsink
Gigabyte 8INXP
1GB Corsair XMSPC3200 DDR RAM @ 166 MHZ Cas 2-2-2-5 in Dual Channel Mode
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
I am pretty happy with my current setup but am tired of having problems due to the motherboard and video card combo...it's unstable at anything above 133MHZ FSB for the most part...sometimes it's stable as a rock....sometimes it just randomly restarts...but no matter what it is annoying and I am looking to get the next best thing...an AMD setup that will give me great speed and performance. But the problem is I have no idea what motherboard to get (heard Epox 8RDA+ is the best overclocker), Processor (Heard revision B of AMD Athlon XP 2100+ is pretty good at 3000+ or better rating), Heatsink (No clue here, would MCX462 be the best choice?)? Is there anything else I will need, any settings, files, updates, reccomendations? I am looking to get the most out of this thing so any help will be greatly appreciated...thanks.
Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHZ@2.83GHZ on a Swftech MCX478 Heatsink
Gigabyte 8INXP
1GB Corsair XMSPC3200 DDR RAM @ 166 MHZ Cas 2-2-2-5 in Dual Channel Mode
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
I am pretty happy with my current setup but am tired of having problems due to the motherboard and video card combo...it's unstable at anything above 133MHZ FSB for the most part...sometimes it's stable as a rock....sometimes it just randomly restarts...but no matter what it is annoying and I am looking to get the next best thing...an AMD setup that will give me great speed and performance. But the problem is I have no idea what motherboard to get (heard Epox 8RDA+ is the best overclocker), Processor (Heard revision B of AMD Athlon XP 2100+ is pretty good at 3000+ or better rating), Heatsink (No clue here, would MCX462 be the best choice?)? Is there anything else I will need, any settings, files, updates, reccomendations? I am looking to get the most out of this thing so any help will be greatly appreciated...thanks.