How hard would it be to find a............

[HomerSapien]

Classic Athlon slot A at 1Ghz. My parents are giving me one of their office computers towards the end of summer. I would like to turn this into my personal machine. It has a 500 or 600mhz chip in it right now. It has an asus mother board that supports 1ghz. I am just hoping that there are some left since they have almost disappeared off the pages of pricewatch. I dont really want to overclock anything since i dont want the noisy fans. Anyways, suggestions are appreciated as to where i should look and what a good price for one is.

Thanks

 

[stingygrrl]

I don't know how good this store is, but they at least have them. They have the

Athlon K7 950Mhz® Thunderbird Slot A for $170 and

the Athlon K7 1Ghz® Thunderbird Slot A for $310.

http://www.econopc.com/

 

[stockjock]

More than likely a slot a TBird will not perform well in that motherboard. Why don't you buy yourself a 750 slot A classic athlon, a good HS/F like an Alpha P7125 and a GFD and overclock it. You should be able to get real close to 1ghz with that setup....just go over to the For Sale/Trade forum and ask who has one that will clock up to 1ghz.

 

[HomerSapien]

What all is required for a gfd? Like, what does it do, how hard is it to use. If so, i may just keep what it has and buy one of those things and a nice heatsink.

I would rather not overclock since i dont want to mess with a lot of fans, making memory timings is right, etc. Plus, i am going to soundproof the inside, which will build up heat. Im in central texas, so air conditioning will already be high.

Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[HomerSapien]

Just stopped by that econo pc. Something fishy with the warranty prices. Plus i found it odd that a 900 classic is $150, which is half the price, less than the 1ghz.

 

[Swanny]

If I were you I'd just buy a new MB that has socket A and a KT133a chipset and get a thunderbird cpu. Then you'd have a path for future upgrades too.