- Feb 18, 2005
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With the focus on A64 chips right now I figure this is probably not an extremely good time to be asking this, but I figured I would anyway! After doing some random inventory I discovered that I have a 3000+ XP Barton, 1GB PC3200, a 9700Pro, and SB Live! 5.1 Digital just sitting around. Dusted off a 17" Trinitron and realized, well hell, I'm a motherboard away from a system I can build for the girlfriend for playing the Sim2 so she stops invading my computer room and stealing a 4000+ with a 800XT on a 19" Samsung 8ms refresh LCD - to this day I don't know what makes me cry more, the fact that she uses such a beautiful rig for the Sims or the fact that that she's managed to save enough porn on that computer to fill up two 200GB SATA drives. (Imagine that one when family is over, explain to your little nephew that it's not you, but the girlfriend that downloads the porn, trust me, nobody believes it and this machine is used by myself and it's the primary internet portal for both of my not computer-savy roommates)
ANYWAY! To make a long story short I get to take a fun break from building computers for people for cash and get to build one for love (or sex I suppose regardless it's one in the same). Now the problem is that because I'm working with outdated socket A technology I want to overclock it to hell and back.. after my bad experiences with the V880 chipset listed in the sig and the fact that there is ABSOLUTELY NO PCI/AGP lock on the 880 chipset thus rendering overclocking a physical impossibility using the graphics card in question without having it die with as little as a 205 fsb, I want to pick up a good nforce or equivalent socket A board in the $50-80 range and throw it all together and OC it to the breaking point to see how long it lasts.
Checking both newegg and zipzoomfly I'm very unfamiliar with most of the boards, what are the holy trinity chipsets or boards specifically for OCing socket A's?
ANYWAY! To make a long story short I get to take a fun break from building computers for people for cash and get to build one for love (or sex I suppose regardless it's one in the same). Now the problem is that because I'm working with outdated socket A technology I want to overclock it to hell and back.. after my bad experiences with the V880 chipset listed in the sig and the fact that there is ABSOLUTELY NO PCI/AGP lock on the 880 chipset thus rendering overclocking a physical impossibility using the graphics card in question without having it die with as little as a 205 fsb, I want to pick up a good nforce or equivalent socket A board in the $50-80 range and throw it all together and OC it to the breaking point to see how long it lasts.
Checking both newegg and zipzoomfly I'm very unfamiliar with most of the boards, what are the holy trinity chipsets or boards specifically for OCing socket A's?
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