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Building a system help

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moosey

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I need to make a system for someone. I want stability and reliability and compatibility above all else. I was thinking of going the AMD 761 route with the Asus A7M266 for stability reasons. The system won't be used for gaming or anything like that (at most a dvd). And right now the $160 for the Asus KT266A board is a bit much. Plus, the A7M266 uses the c-media audio so that would eliminate the need for a separate card. If I go with the A7M266, will it be able to deliver what I need and not face any problems in the future? Any other suggestions? The OS would probably be winXP.
 
get a D815EEA2U and a celeron 1.2 or 1.3. Add a HDD, case , and memory and you are done. Since Intel makes it, it will prolly never crash. and I bet the .13 celeron could run with just a HS no fan. If you want a PC that will just work then that is the way to go. I saw the board at mwave for like $108 or something. Be sure to buy a retail intel board if you do buy one. No OC options but 3 year warranty is very good. Did I mention no one makes better motherboards or chipsets then Intel?

D815EEA2U

Mwave
 


<< get a D815EEA2U and a celeron 1.2 or 1.3. Add a HDD, case , and memory and you are done. Since Intel makes it, it will prolly never crash. and I bet the .13 celeron could run with just a HS no fan. If you want a PC that will just work then that is the way to go. I saw the board at mwave for like $108 or something. Be sure to buy a retail intel board if you do buy one. No OC options but 3 year warranty is very good. Did I mention no one makes better motherboards or chipsets then Intel?

D815EEA2U

Mwave >>

uhoh...😀....that is serious flamebait 🙂
 
gerrick.....my iwill kk266 w/1.0ghz Athlon-C was up for 26 days without a reboot in November ( the ultimate WinXPPro test for me...lol ) and yes I did do stuff to force a reboot...the closest was IE6 errors...nuff said.
 
Anand has a roundup on AMD761 boards, if you're interested. Just go to his main page, and look under motherboards.

From what he said, the board seems to have some issues with certain types of ram. I'd stay clear of it; it also looks low-quality, much like the GA-7DX. If I were to get a 761 board, I'd look at ABit KG7/lite and EPoX 8K7A/+ because these are stable, fast, overclock well, etc. If you like dimm slots, look at Abit KG7/Raid and GA-7DXR. Otherwise, all the 761 boards only have two dimms due to the difficulty in getting DDR timings right for the mobo manufacturers.
 
ScrapSilicon - If you don't reboot your PC once in 26 days you can not be too much of a tinkerer. You may have gotten lucky. Every major site I've seen has said the Intel chipsets are better then anything you can hook an AMD to. First generation 845 boards are more stable then the 266A. I turn my PC off at night so I'm not sure how it would perform. I've had it since 04/10/01 and have not been forced to reboot due to error. I have not seen a BSOD. It has not crashed. No I'm not a tinkerer. I load it leave then load it again. I use D815EEA's and D815EEA2's at work and have not had to return a single one. We have roughly 40 PC's with one of those 2. They don't crash either. Most are never rebooted here at work. The one I'm using right now has been up for 45 days or so without a reboot. And that doesn't just happen once. It happens everytime I make a new image for the type of PC it is. It can onlyu be flame bait if it is untrue. In my experience it is true. It is also in the experience of almost all people who use Intel boards and CPU's. That can not be said about the AMD platform. These forums are filled with more AMD issues then Intel issues. That is enough evudence alone to convince me.


http://hardocp.com/reviews/chipsets/kt266a/index5.html

One thing that needs to be taken into consideration is VIA's habit of leaving flaws in their chipsets. We have seen the problems that have basically kept the current KT266 chipset off the market for the last eight months, and we have watched their 686B South Bridge cause all sorts of problems with data corruption at the end user level. I know we were forced to reformat and have lost significant amounts of data due to the 686B South Bridge and its problems.

Let's hope that VIA has learned from its own problems over the last twelve months and does not attempt to bring another unfinished product to market. There is no doubt that VIA is a technology leader that all of us can benefit from, and we must remember to give them a chance or two in our market. It was not too long ago that VIA was a struggling company that only hoped to one day be where they are now. I have confidence in them to do the right thing, and if you have ever spoken to VIA's CEO, Wen Chi Chen, you would also know that there is a moral fabric present in their company that is not often found in many others.


http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1543&p=4

While the current batch of Socket-A motherboards are not nearly as flawless (in regards to overall stability/quality) as the i845 boards we rounded up not too long ago, they are approaching maturity as time goes on. Especially with the incredible effort NVIDIA is putting into drivers for their nForce platform, we may see things improve dramatically for the platform in the next few months.


http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q4/011031/index.html

Another factor is the stability and product quality of a system: while all Athlon processors suffered from occasional instability in our tests, the Pentium 4 platform ran without a glitch. Reasons for this behaviour might not lie in the processor itself, but rather in the motherboard design and the chipset used. Future driver updates might not just improve performance but also stability of a platform. And of course, every user knows that the lightweight price tags on Athlon XP processors may have a downside compared to their more expensive Pentium 4 rivals.
 
hehe you dont have to be "lucky" to have a stable AMD system

and if "Every major site I've seen has said the Intel chipsets are better then anything you can hook an AMD to" then you need to get out more 🙂


if your looking for price/performance AMD is the logical choice


 
gerrick,
Do you work for Intel (Inhell},yes you can get a 815E mob at newegg open box for $75 and a VVVVVVVery slow celeron,but I would get the 1.0gig P3 for $122 with a fan
and as for the 3 year warranty ,you will need it I had 3 815E boards go bad this year, but that is out of 10 so 70%,Textis not so bad

If I were you I would get a 266A board,like an EPOX $98,or a MSI $104
and an AMD XP chip I think the 1500 is about $105 and I just got an 1800 yesterday for $160 with a fan and 3 year warranty
Kingston DDR $72 for 128mb
weasten HDD $85 40gig $112 60gig
BUT WHAT DO I KNOW I ONLY BUILD 30 SYSTEMS A YEAR
 
I built a box for my wife w/ ecs k7sem and put a 950 duron in it.. 256 mb ram onboard sound and video.. stable as can be has an sis 730 chipset i think 3 pci slots 1 agp, and an amr. rock solid..and fairly quick for an office work/home work computer in an enlight case w/300 psu.. all under $250 including shipping not a bad deal.
 
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