Hey Folks,
I am looking to upgrade my system from a Celeron 700 with 384 mb pc100s. I'm doing this the wrong way, but here it goes. I have just recently purchased 3 sticks of 128mb Kingston ValueRam pc133s. After rebate, I will have purchased them at $5 a piece. I initially wanted to go with a DDR memory system, but I didn't want to spend the money for the memory. However, I stumbled across this deal and now I am trying to build a system around the memory. I know, I know, this isn't the way to do it. However, with the kt133a boards and xp chips tumbling in price, I think I can do this for under $150, including $15 spent for the memory. I have the other devices.
From my research, kt133a boards seem to have what I want: pc133 sdram support and Athlon XP support. My question to you is what is the best como? What is the best kt133a chipset board out there? What should be the optimal chip match? I am tempted to get XP2000 at $87 shipped, but at the same time XP1600 at $53 shipped sounds good also. I am currently looking at Soltek SL-75KAV and MSI K7T TURBO2. If I get the Soltek board, it has the red storm overclocking program, and supposedly, it is really easy to overclock. Let me know. Thanks. Oh by the way, someone here at the forum said XP1700 is unlocked. Is this true? If so, is this the only XP chip that is unlocked? Thanks in advance.
I am looking to upgrade my system from a Celeron 700 with 384 mb pc100s. I'm doing this the wrong way, but here it goes. I have just recently purchased 3 sticks of 128mb Kingston ValueRam pc133s. After rebate, I will have purchased them at $5 a piece. I initially wanted to go with a DDR memory system, but I didn't want to spend the money for the memory. However, I stumbled across this deal and now I am trying to build a system around the memory. I know, I know, this isn't the way to do it. However, with the kt133a boards and xp chips tumbling in price, I think I can do this for under $150, including $15 spent for the memory. I have the other devices.
From my research, kt133a boards seem to have what I want: pc133 sdram support and Athlon XP support. My question to you is what is the best como? What is the best kt133a chipset board out there? What should be the optimal chip match? I am tempted to get XP2000 at $87 shipped, but at the same time XP1600 at $53 shipped sounds good also. I am currently looking at Soltek SL-75KAV and MSI K7T TURBO2. If I get the Soltek board, it has the red storm overclocking program, and supposedly, it is really easy to overclock. Let me know. Thanks. Oh by the way, someone here at the forum said XP1700 is unlocked. Is this true? If so, is this the only XP chip that is unlocked? Thanks in advance.
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