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I have a GF4/4600, with $500 what would you buy

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Devolutionistrue

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I have the following: GeForce 4 - 4600, Antec 400W PS, 100Gig WD HD and a 21" Monitor... . I am lacking a MB, CPU, HSF and memory. If you had about $500 to spend on MB, CPU, HSF and memory,

1. What would you buy?
2. Who would you buy from?

I am leaning toward the ASUS P4B266 w/1.8A Northwood. I would like to get quality memory and HSF so that after a good "burn-in" I can overclock it some. Now I have heard that many people are going for the i850 chipset with good quality RDRAM and only mildly overclocking. My question is, would a 1.8G OC'd to 2.2G on a Rambus chipset out perform a 1.8G OC'd to 2.4G on a DDR chipset?

Or would I be better off going for an AMD setup and upgrading the CPU and ram at a later date? In other words has anyone seen the AMD/Intel CPU roadmaps and tell which chipset has the most longetivity? I still have a 440BX with a celeron 300A OC'd to 450 and have discovered that I can get a powerleap slot converter to stick a 1.2G or faster Tualatin in this ancient beast and still have the potential to overclock the Tualatin!!! Isn't that something. That would be like buying a chipset today that was originally designed to take a 1.5G-2.2G CPU and a couple years down the road be able to slap a 6Gig CPU in it. Here's the math: 300Mhz X 4 = 1.2Ghz / 1.5Ghz X 4 = 6Ghz. I know that this probably dreaming but my point is, I would rather have a chipset that is multi-generational than a faster initial chipset that is headed for a dead-end.

Since I have most of my system I am itching to finish it up and give my GeForce 4 - 4600 a good home, if you were going to buy within the next week what would you get?

Thanks
 


<< My question is, would a 1.8G OC'd to 2.2G on a Rambus chipset out perform a 1.8G OC'd to 2.4G on a DDR chipset? >>


1.8a on a Abit Th7-2 ( or Asus P4T-E) overclocked to 133 fsb and rdram ( easy to do if you have a board with the ICs-13 clock generator and the samsung low density RDRAM) will out perform the DDR setup even if its overclocked till 150 fsb or higher.

I have heard Mwave might have the Th7-2 board with the right clock generators. If you have some local shops around, it might be better to have a look at what those guys have.
 
If you go with a Northwood chip dont even worry about getting a different HSF combo, the stock one does quite well for some decent overclocks. It has a Sanyo Denki fan with it and its runs pretty quite with good cooling. As for a Mobo either the Abit TH6II or the Asus are both good choices, I would go with the Asus cause we have seen proven overlcocks with it. As for memory thats your call I prefer the Crucial DDR memory 2100 for overclocking. But once again both are good choices to get.
 


<< Ok, so how can I tell if the TH7-II has this clock generator? >>


The DRCG's are located next to the first RDRAM slot, towards the cpu side. You have to look on the markings on them


<< and why the samsung low density RDRAM? >>


This low density (or double sided) ram is known to be the better overclocker.
 
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