Is this new setup ok?

[Gabuk]

Hi all,

I have been reading this board for the past week and learned a lot.

I am upgrading my current system: Abit MB, P3 550 OCed to 733 Mhz, Torando 2000 Case with 300 Watt PS, Twin Turbo 5.25 Slot Cooler, Super Duper Slot Fan for Creative Geforce 2, Ultimate Hard Drive Cooler (all case/cooling parts bought from 3Dcool.com).

I will only be removing the old MB, CPU and RAM.

What I plan on buying is the following:

Asus A7M266 - newegg.com
Athlon 1.4 MHz - newegg.com
Glaciator - millennium-thermal.com
256 Megs of PC 2100 Ram - crucial.com

Is this setup ok? I don't plan on overclocking at all. I may, and if I do, do my older and newer parts support stable overclocking?

If you can recommend a different setup or have comments, I'd appreciate it.

thanks,
SD

 

[cruelpsycho]

i guess. but why limit yourself to 4 pci slots????????

 

[HansXP]

How is he limiting himself to 4 PCI slots? The A7M266 comes with 5 PCI slots.

 

[Buz2b]

Sounds like a good plan. Of course, I could be a little prejudice, since I just built one with that very board. Yes, there are 5 PCI slots. Sounds like a lot of fans, make sure you have some Y adaptors on hand. You might want to look at a Thermalright SK-6 copper heatsink. The board is very well built and did I mention stable? VERY! Good luck!

 

[GundamF91]

Sounds good enough. good luck installing everything.

 

[Zuluwarrior]

WHAT THE HELL??

DO U THINK ALL THESE PEOPLE WITH THE EPOX'S HAVE MUSH
TWEENST THEYA EARS?????

i'm kidding.....

but seriously, do consider the Epox....it's a yummy board
to say the least and one that will provide you decades
of good service......

8k7a user
keep those cards and letters coming

 

[heffe734]

EPOX ALL THE WAY!

Besides it's cheaper and just as stable.

 

[boran]

why do u only get 256 meg of mem, for a slight bit more u have 512 and you're safe for the next 6 months if it comes down to memory requirements (and a half Gigabyte of memory sounds just crazy ) (tho when I would have a GB I would have more memory than my brothers harddisk )