ABIT KT7-Raid + duron 600 @ 900 <$240 shipped

diem · Oct 4, 2000

Ok after spending far too long on pricewatch.com going back and forth spending a ridiculous amount of time searching for that extra $5 off this is what I've come up with, I thought I'd share.

residents of California(and elswhere not Utah or Arizona) pay no sales tax at

http://www.logical-source.com where you can get a KT7-Raid for <$150, a duron for <$60 and shipping for <$13

get a Chrome Golden Orb fan at http://www.1look.com/ for $18 with free shippin

get a good sharp pencil and follow toms instructions here...

http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q3/000711/index.html

I also supplied this system w/ 2 WD 15.3 GB drives pricematched / coupon-ed and rebated from staples for $56 each (no shipping).

howd I do?

beatinitup · Oct 4, 2000

http://ocz.safeshopper.com/29/5862.htm?983

950mhz duron, plus abit k7 raid mb for 259

not bad in my opinion

Big Bomb · Oct 4, 2000

Other than they have a reseller rating of 0.0. Do not use overclockz!!

abracadabra1 · Oct 4, 2000

don't even bother going there.
the overclockerz store is suckass. if i met the owner i would have him lick my balls.
here's why:
THE OVERCLOCKERZ STORE SUCKS!

ryan's an ass who never responds to your e-mails and amanda is a lying bitch.

Techwhore · Oct 4, 2000

It's not hard to find a good deal:

JCShopper - Duron 600mhz - $47 + 10 shipping = 57 total (no tax to ny at least)
Microbarn - Abit KT7 RAID - $147 + $12 shipping = 159 (Again no tax)
2cooltek - Globalwin FOP 38 w/delta fan - $25 + 6 shipping = $31 (no tax)

End cost, $247... you get the best board, arguably the best hs/f combo (second only to the AlphaPAL6035 w/delta fan) and a shot at 1000 mhz, can't go wrong for the money and performance

allenciox · Oct 4, 2000

This deal is even better, I ordered it Monday, it shipped yesterday UPS Ground, should get it soon:

Multiwave (reseller rating =5.5/7.0) Motherboard bundle:

SKU Qty. Item Unit Price Ext. Price
N013-72- 1 ABIT KT7-RAID Motherboard Specs BUNDLE W/ COOLING FAN & (AMD DURON 600(OEM); NO MEMORY) $219.00 $219.00
Sub Total $219.00
S&H (UPS Ground) $12.48
Sales Tax (North Carolina, 0.0%) $0.00
Grand Total $231.48

mikail · Oct 5, 2000

I agree..the prices are cheap, but if you have a problem good luck.....you are f**ked

mikail · Oct 5, 2000

by the way i was talking about over clockerz....i rather dislike them @ the moment

Techwhore · Oct 5, 2000

I almost went to them, ocz.com that is, but was deterred by the comments... the prices are rather feasable for what they gaureentee the chip at. Oh well, i'll take my chances with my OEM duron...

allenciox, nice find, saved yourself near 30 bux

aRyll, what you said holds true, to some extent... buying a new video card would undoubtedly boost performance more than a cpu upgrade, for most users that is. But they themselves are self limiting and some can cost more than this package. The RAM i disagree, unless you only have 32 megs or less, you won't see that big a performance gain. Windows shows all most no difference between 64 and 128 and more than 128 in windows is pointless. Again, the difference between pc100 and pc133, for those who can use 133, isn't enuff gain for the cost. As for the hard drive, you'd only see windows loadtime and performance increase, not in any games. The difference between 5400 and 7200 is pretty noticable but i'd rather have a faster chip... if you're talking about scsi, that would be WELL worth the cost, but is too expensive for most

RoadRuner · Oct 5, 2000

check out www.athlonoc.com and then go to their specials page. its still ocz, the prices are better.

manly · Oct 5, 2000

3 questions:

1. I'm not interested in RAID. Asus A7V or Abit KT7? Basic AC97 codec would be nice, but I understand some A7V boards don't have it (and no KT7 boards have it); I can do without.

2. What speed can most (many) Durons run at with default voltage, or anything up to say 1.65 V? Sure, it's nice to be able to clock near 1 GHz iff you crank the voltage up to 1.85 V, but in my book it's not really worth it.

3. When will these boards w/ the VIA whatever_686B south-bridge be on the market?

TIA.

Techwhore · Oct 5, 2000

If i'm not mistaken, the via 686B supersouth bridge is already on boards and is what brings us ATA 100 support for the Abit KT7 RAID board, not sure if any other socket a's have ata 100 support. As for the durons, i wouldn't suspect you'd get far o/c'n unless you went to 1.7 or 1.75.. but again that's different for every chip.

Getting back to the 686B chipset, someone please correct me if i'm wrong. I think it's sole benefit over the 686A is ATA 100 support. If this is the case, you shouldn't be concerned with it seeing as how the fastest IDE drives barely sustain a transfer rate of 40 mb/s, which isn't even ATA 66. The AMD 761 northbridge is what you should wait for, that'll bring DDR RAM support

directcom · Oct 5, 2000

Seems like KT7 is everyone's choice for Duron.

wesman2 · Oct 5, 2000

I'm using the Asus A7V, which also has ATA-100 support (no raid), and I got my duron 600 to 800 with default voltage. I don't know how stable it was because it didn't stay there for long, but I did use windows for several hours without error. 892@1.65 volts booted and worked in windows but caused errors in dues ex, so I bumped the voltage to 1.7 and have not had any problems. Every chip is different tho, my second duron 600 would not boot at 892 until 1.65v and did not load windows until 1.7. Still with the default voltage you will likely get 700 to 750 without problems.

RoadRuner · Oct 5, 2000

who cares if it dies, get a retail duron. smoke it at 1.85V or 1.9v or 2.0, and if it dies, return it, you'll get a newer stepping

diem · Oct 5, 2000

I won't buy another pentium processor.

So I went AMD. Duron because I'm broke.
Abit because of Raid + ata100.
I was told to get a good fan to keep it cool so I didn't go for the package deal at Multiwave (and they ship out of CA-tax!)
The golden orb got excellent ratings at keeping things cool.

RAID because I do video editing, with 2 ata 100 striped together I MIGHT see 120 mb/s.

If you dont want RAID the asus and abit seem like a toss up. For overclocking the Abit softmenu just makes things easier(maybe). There is as comparison somewhere @ toms that shows them back to back ABit vs Asus and Asus wins except for the addition of the RAID on board. It was an extra $20. As cheap, and less of a pain in the ass than tearing apart an ultra66 AND you get ata100.

But what do I know, I'm still waiting for the UPS truck.

directcom · Oct 5, 2000

I hate UPS.

skippy459 · Oct 5, 2000

Is it just me or does buying pre-tested processors ruin half the fun of overclocking. I mean how much fun in it to buy a processor knowing you'll be able to get a certain speed out of it. A lot of my reason for overclocking is the thrill of the hunt so to speak, the quest for higher and higher speed.

Just my $.02

tigger80 · Oct 6, 2000

just to let you know about the Golden orbs and abit kt7 motherboard. You will have to bend some of the transistors that is near the socket for the cpu.

diem · Oct 6, 2000

Do you know this because you have one? Do I worry about bending the transistors?

dude · Oct 6, 2000

Same here.

I love buying BOXED processors and testing them to see how far they go, seeing how much I can stress my machine, and how many times the registry gets corrupted. THATS where the fun comes in.

It just doesn't bring that spine chilling feeling down your back when you know that a chip will do a set speed and you won't burn 250 + shells on a new processor that you wanna overclock to get another $50 of performane out of it.

wussies.

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