Athlon or Athlon XP?

thirdlegstump

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I'm building something around the epox 8k7a mobo for it's stability and decent performance. Was wondering if the 1.0 GHz Athlon would be that much slower than the 1.5 GHz Athlon XP. Also, since I'm NOT overclocking, would the Thermaltake Volcano II HSF be good enough? How's the fan's noise/performance ratio? I already have the DDR memory from Crucial. Thanks.
 

Wind

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Go for the retail 1600+ XP. Ur HSF shouldn't be a probs as the XP 1600+ proceduces the heat similar to Athlon 1.2 Ghz. Stock fan is quite.

W/ the latest bios update, ur mobo will support XP CPU.