A7V133, 1.2 T-Bird, 300W PS, any issues????

[jeremy806]

Hi everyone,

This week, I plan to purchase a 1.2G T-Bird and an Asus A7V133.

This will be my first AMD system ever. The rest of my system is basically:

2 hard drives, CD drive, CD-RW, SB Live MP3, Linksys NIC, SIIG 1394 card, Win98SE (or maybe w2k or even dual boot),

Antec 300W PS, CL GTS.

Hopefully, I can reinstall an OS, install 4in1, USB patch, any other patch, and things will work fine.

I am slightly worried about the PS, and the GTS, AGP 4x.

If anyone can give me any tips, I'd be happy. Again, this is my first AMD system. I am upgrading from a Celeron 533@800



Thanks,

Jeremy806

 

[Charles]

You won't have any problem. Don't worry about the Power Supply. I recommend you to get a good cooler for your 1.2GHz monster! I personally recommend Alpha PAL or PEP HSF.

 

[Biggs]

Would a stock FOP32-1 suffice to cool a 1.2Ghz monster?

 

[jeremy806]

bump.

Related question: Is it really worth the money to upgrade when my existing system runs at 800 MHz?

I do a little gaming (NHL2001, Q3A, UT, Counterstrike, etc.), a little bit of video encoding, some surfing, generally a little bit of everything.

Jeremy

 

[METALBOY]

Personally I wouldn't upgrade yet. I would wait for the next generation of CPUs/Mobos. Unless you have tons of $$$ to burn. I would hold out. 800mhz still kicks booty!

 

[SerraYX]

Don't even bother to upgrade, for gaming your video card is the limiting factor. Video encoding does depend on the processor, but the gain won't be worth the cost. Get your RAM up to 256mb (if you haven't already), cheaper and will give you a performance gain.

 

[jeremy806]

I recently upgraded my RAM from 128 to 384. I can tell the difference, and the RAM was really cheap.

All this 1G craze might be getting to me. But thanks for the comments, I'd like to hear from anyone that did this same upgrade and thought that it was worth it or thought it was a waste of cash.

So, far, seems that the majority opinion here is waste of cash. I guess I could push one more year out of the old P2B.

Jeremy806

 

[SACANDAGA]

for gaming your video card is the limiting factor.
I agree! one major mistake people make is to spend all their money on the CPU when it would make more sense to spend their money on quality ram and video card. For instance it would be better to save $50 dollars on a CPU and spend it on a gts2 vs mx2 card.

 

[jeremy806]

bump again.