Building a TBird system. Need info please ...

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RedRaider

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In the next month, I'll build a TBird based system. Going for around 800 MHz to 1GHz. Would like some recommedations on a motherboard. Been looking over the ASUS and Abit boards. The system will look somthing like this:

TBird 800MHz/1GHz
Motherboard: ???
IBM or Seagate HDD ATA100/7200 IDE
50X CDROM
128mb PC133 Mushkin Buget w/Infinion
SB Live Value
GeForce 2 MX

ect...ect.

Hearing about DDR boards comming soon but would like to stay with the boards that have been out for a while with at least a couple bios revisions out.

Thanks for any input.
 
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glp1del

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I have the abit KT7 running a duron 700 at 900 without any major problems. System has been stable for a month or so now. The only problem and I think this is related to the via USB filter and not to abit is an USB problem. If my UPS from APC is connected via USB the system cannot boot. Someone else reported a similar problem with a scanner. The other minor problem is my printer is connected via an USB connection and must be plugged in after the system is booted in order to work. Like I said, I think these USB problems are linked to the via chipset and not abit and should be fixed in an update or two. Otherwise I love this board. As a side note this was the first mobo I have ever installed on my own and things went amazingly smoothly. The other board peopel are talking a lot about is from MSI.

Hope that helps

Glp1
 
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jinsonxu

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The MSI K7T Pro II seems to be good too. I can't comment until i install it. I've 1 beside me at the moment.
 
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Technonut

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I have no problems at all with USB on my KT7. I run a USB modem, and a USB hub with 2 USB, 1 Serial port, and 1 printer port on it. I run my printer off of it, and have a USB scanner and digital camera running on the hub too. I think the KT7 is a great board, and have had no problems with it at all. Very stable, and very fast.
 
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Technonut

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Well, a good power supply (at least 300 watts) would be on my list if I were you. The Enermax has dual fans, and is very good. The Antec PP303X is also good. I personally run the Enermax because I have a loaded system. (2 hard drives, 1 DVD player, 1 CD burner, 1 CDROM, 2 120mm fans, etc..
 
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AMB

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This is what I would go with:

TBird 900MHz
Abit KT7
Maxotr 7200 RPM HDD
Pioneer 105S
128Mb PC133 Crucial
SB Live Value
Geforce 2 GTS/MX
 
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NforSa

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Definetly get a good powersupply, motherboard, if your on a budget I can reccomend the Epox 8KTA+, it has all the oc'ing option of the other boards the only bad thing is it uses jumpers.
At the moment I have one rock solid with a Duron 600 @ 988mhz (9.5*104)

The MSIK7tpro2 is good *IF* you can get one...
the ASUS A7V is also just as good as the rest.
The Abit boars is good, but more people have problems with it than the other brands (its always like this with abit)

Also, if u can afford it get a diff. video card, the 4500 is barely faster than a voodoo3, and will definetly be a bottleneck
 
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RedRaider

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NforSa,

Only going for the V4 4500 because of buget constraints at this point. Plan on going GeForce 2 around spring. Right now I could build this using ASUS/ABIT/MSI ect, and above mentioned parts for around $800.00 or less ( TBird 800 that is ) as I have everything else to compleat the system. Thanks for the additional info.
 
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Zeeliv

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Yeah but you could get an MX for the same price and it would outperform the V4 in everything (just check out Anand's V4 review).
 
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Lombardaga

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If ure on a budgeat thers no better card than the Geforce2 MX. The card will cost u bout $100-$120 bucks and is offering superb value for the money. The MSI Starforce816/817 is one of the best and at great price. WAAAYYY better than the crappy voodoo4 4500...
 
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Maverick

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get a geforce2 MX now because in the spring time there will probably be something better than the Geforce2 out there (Nv20?).
 
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Zedfu

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i got a kt7 with tbird800. a very flexible board. perfect for oc'ing. although ddr ram is coming out soon, don't expect sdram to fade away anytime soon. ddr still does not provide any significant improvement sdram, eg. 100mhz ddr is not really running at 200mhz. it's only running 100mhz while transferring data from both rising and falling edge of a clock cycle.
 
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Dulanic

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I hate the Abit because the Highpoint controller sucks. I hate highpoint, it has poor driver support and alot of bugs. And if you want RAID the last thing I would get is highpoint. Both the A7V and MSI are good boards. The MSI is more the value board, the A7V is more the feature board. Both are excellent. And Promise does excellent ATA100, I get 30% better performance out of my ATA66 drive on the ATA100 Promise controller.
 
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Howard

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What kind of games will you be playing? If none, grab a Matrox G400 16/32MB. Hands down, it has the BEST 2D that most people can afford (come to think of it, are there any professional video cards with better 2D? ;))

Thunderbird 700 OCed to 900+
MSI K7T Pro2
Panasonic 48X CD-ROM (Don't get Creative Labs CD-ROMs, those sound like jets on takeoff)
256MB PC100 Kingston Value RAM
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
ATi Radeon 32MB SDR
 
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jfall

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Make sure you get a good heatsink/fan for it!! such as a Superorb, Globalwin Fop38 etc.. I made the mistake of using a crappy generic heatsink/fan and I had lockup problems for the longest time!!
 
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joburnet

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I'm thinking about buying the Abit KT7 RAID, has anyone had problems with it? From what i'm hearing I may go with the MSI board, it looks pretty good but no RAID driver.
 
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