Help I have $600 to spend.

[Renob]

I have a Ge-Force 2 128megs of PC133 a hard drive, cdrom All I need is a CPU that I can overclock and a mobo Thank for the info or your opinion.

 

[utopia]

Abit BE6-2 $107 and PIII Coppermine 700Mhz cb0 $220 @ 1Gh

 

[pdo]

Go get a hooker and have a good time.

 

[Pete]

Hehe. If you pass up .paldo's suggestion, I'd second the P3-700 but suggest Abit's upcoming BX board with RAID-100 built in. If that's a feature you can do without, then feel free to ignore it.

 

[redpriest_]

Not guaranteed you'll hit 1 GHz

 

[cdrakejr]

If you are willing to wait a few weeks for them to become readily available, then I would give some serious consideration to Duron 650 or 700, either will easily overclock to 950, and either the ASUS A7V or Abit KT7 motherboard which are the top overclocking boards for AMD.
They should be easily available before the end of August and at a total cost of less than $300.00.
If you don't have a monitor yet, take the extra $300.00 and go for a good 19".
Also, good rumors that AMD will reduce prices by up to 40% at end of July when they will introduce the next speed grades.
Here are some reviews that can help you compare the Duron and T-bird Athlon performance with Intel. Then you can make the decision that you think is best for you.

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1261
http://www.arstechnica.com/reviews/2q00/duron/duron-1.html
http://www.gamepc.com/reviews/hardware_review.asp?review=duron&page=1
http://www.pcmech.com/article.htm?duron-vs-celeron
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q2/000619/index.html

Overclocking review:
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q2/000623/index.html

You'll read about the Thunderbird core Athlon in the reviews and each of these sites has a seperate Thunderbird review also. I prefer the Duron simply because of its great price/performance ratio.

 

[Renob]

Thanks for the info and what is RAID-100 and is that a 700 PIII with a 100 fsb????

 

[Gatsby]

Raid 100 is IDE Raid using the new Drive Speed. UDMA 5 that allows burst speeds of 100 Mb/s

and to achieve the 1 Ghz you will need the cBo stepping of the 100 fsb chips... 7.5 x 100 = 750 7.5 x 133= 1 Ghz..

Also it may not work.. depends o the chip.. you may need the new cCo stepping BUT those aren't even released but they have an expected yiled at 1.16 Ghz

Gatsby

 

[Renob]

I need more input. Come on poeple show me some love. Big daddy needs a new pair of shoes. Thanks for your input...........

 

[K_Factor]

Here is a classic athlon 900 and abit ka7 for $586.
http://192.216.185.10/mwave/ProdCPUBUNDLE-AMDK7.hmx?UID=XX%2D1894217%2D20222&CID=&Back=ProdCPUBUNDLE-AMDK7.hmx?
This combo should give you some 1GHz+ lovin.