You should really try reading the whole thread before commenting... The Epox 8K5A2+ is both a KT333 board, the fastest one at that, and will support the 333mhz FSB Athlons.
Maybe you should try taking your own advice. I said what I said because he had not chosen a mobo yet. In fact, as of your post, he still hasn't. My recommendation for him is still valid; no matter what he chooses, he should go with a board that is compatible with a 333FSB.
He is getting good PC2700...
This just doesn't make sense. He
still hasn't picked a brand, and in fact he asked for a brand of RAM to choose from. I told him exactly what kind of RAM to choose. You know that he's getting good PC2700? Could you please elaborate as to how you know this?
As far as the case goes, I did miss that one part. I'll concede that. However, it's still not nearly as bad as some I see that obviously just drop in a thread and post based on what the person originally said with no concern for what's been said since.
Actually, not quite. The older Tbird core has none of the improvements that were made to the Palomino (XP) core to better work with DDR, like hardware prefetch, and it won't benefit nearly as much from DDR as an XP will.
You're about half right here. No, it would not be hindered with PC133 like newer XPs would be, but he would still
see (key word there is see) a difference. Speaking of noticing performance gains, this is a perfect transition to the next quote.
That is the worst of all your comments. If you really didn't see any difference from a P2 450mhz, then you seriously did something wrong. You might try to do some actual research before blowing smoke out of your...err...making comments not based in fact.
This was obviously not a statement based on fact, nor was it framed this way. Please enlighten me as to what kind of research I should do before
expressing my opinion. There is not now, nor was there ever a problem with my system. I kept my PII 450 running quite well. There aren't any applications running in the background, I keep my OS and programs on an outermost partition of a WD800JB, I had 512MB of PC100 SDRAM, and it was running with a GF3 Ti200. It only got 3400 3DMarks, but it ran much better than those numbers would suggest. I will say that once I actually get back to playing a first-person shooter, I'm sure that I'll see a difference, but I've been playing Warcraft III, Icewind Dale II and Age of Kings; these games ran well before and don't run a whole lot better now because there wasn't much room for improvement. I have seen absoluetly no improvement at bootup. There were some excellent gains when first loading each individual match in Warcraft III, but it wasn't like I was waiting an hour before. I used to wait from 30 - 45 seconds to load, while now I wait about 15 - 20. A decent gain, but now I'm waiting on the other player to load, so there's little difference. Inside the game, whenever my hero came out, there used to be a half-second glitch. It was so small that it didn't even bother me. Now, there's no glitch. It wasn't a huge issue before, so there's little to talk about now. That's why I say that I have barely seen a difference. I'm sure that in first-person shooters one might see some difference in, say, Red Faction (which also ran incredibly smoothly), but would see absolutely zero difference in Quake III.
Maybe you should think about what you're saying before you start, you know, blowing smoke out of your...err...making comments... period.
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