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my new gigabyte 7zx board - working great!

Iron Woode

Iron Woode

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I just assembled my new system:

700 duron
7zx board/creative labs onboard sound
v3 3000 AGP
20 gig maxtor 7200rpm ata66
50x cdrom
sony 32x,8x,4x burner
96 mg pc100

This system is very stable and doesn`t get hot either. Board is very cool looking in blue. It just blows away my old 300mghz K6-2 setup I had before. Even the sound is pretty good too. Games just scream. I am very happy with this setup.

More ram (pc133) will be comming soon.

I give this board 2 thumbs up!
 
how much each of the items cost? could you lemme know? I am planning to put up a system too, and I am confused which mobo/cpu combination I must buy...
 
Buckeye:

I live in Canada so prices are very strange here.

700 mghz Duron cost me $140.00 cdn (included a serious heatsink&fan)
Gigabyte 7zx /w ct5880 cost me $200.00 cdn

everything else was borrowed from my old ss7 system.
 
You have done exactly what I am planning with the MSI Pro 2 ...which is on the way. I have in waiting the Antec KS282 case, the 650 Duron(unlocked)..the FOP32 fan/HS.
The Soyo 5EHM and K6-3 400 in this really neat Enlight case will give up memory, and the ATI 16 Mg. AGP, along with the 8.3 Maxtor 33. It will then be remade to be a better system for my sweetie.
Still have to get a PCI modem of some sort for the MSI, but that will come to.
Neos
 
Moonbender:

I didn`t buy it to overclock it. I bought it for other reasons: stability, dual bios in case of boo-boos, CT5880 sound and I like having a free ISA slot.

I found the VIA hardware monitor buried on CD that came with this board. My cpu never goes above 36 C.

I think I will try some benchmarks using Sisandra and maybe ZD as well.
 
I had the 7zm, the smaller micro-atx brother of the 7zx, and it was a very nice board. And it bus oc'ed to 117mhz! It wasn't quite enough sped though, so I got a A7V. You can use the ez tune 3 to change the system bus while windows runs. 819mhz for pushing a button isn't bad.
 
People keep saying that the GA-7ZX isn't that good in overclocking.. why?

CAn someone suggest another board for me to use that is around the 119 price rang... aw, heck. The A7V is only another $15 bucks..

I might as well.

arg.
 
Yeah, Get an A7V, or KT7. Actually you may want to wait a couple of weeks for The DDR boards. There are several other boards out there now that should overclock well, too.

The Ga-7zx can't overclock well because it has no ability to change the clock multiplier of the processor. In effect, this limits you to about 110% of your processors OEM speed. This is because Athlon/Duron can only handle a bus speed up to about 110mhz. (double-pumped this translates to 220mhz bus for the processor)Many of us with A7V's,or KT7's are reaching the 1ghz area-about 166% of OEM speed.

So, look for a socket-a board that has multiplier adjustments, as well as bus speed adjustments.
 
For less expensive but good boards which DO overclock,look at Soltek, Soyo and the FIC AZ11E. Course for non-overclocking and really good stability, Gigabytes my # 1 choice.
 
Thanks all 3 of you for the tips on what motherboards to look for.

I am thinking that the motherboard is the one thing that I am going to be keeping for a long time, so I might as well invest. (unless a dual-duron mobo comes out that is overclockable.. ho boy, I will HAVE to get that..)

But I will consider those tips. thanks..

DaddyG: Do you know any of those model numbers for the mobos you mentioned?
 
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