Need advice for hardware.

[Jgtdragon]

I will be selling my Abit Th7 II, P4 1.8a @ 2.29ghz, and 512mb of Pc800 @pc1000 to a friend in the first week of Dec. What you guys suggest me replacing it with? Of course, I want something that performance better then my current combo.

Thanks

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

newer p4 wiht C1 stepping
granite bay
pc2700 atleast, maybe pc3000 or pc3200 if you wish

you are almost guranteed a C1 stepping with anything 2.53ghz or over (some 2.53ghz are however B0 stepping)

check http://processorfinder.intel.com/scripts/list.asp?ProcFam=483&CorSpd=ALL&SysBusSpd=ALL&PkgType=ALL with the slxxx code to make sure if you can find out the slxxx code before purchasing

//edit
better to get the 533fsb ones as they have a lower mult=higher fsb usually

 

[Jgtdragon]

Thanks for the quick response.

I am thinking granite bay too. Either the Asus or Gigabyte board.
Are 2x 256mb Samsung Pc2700 ok for me or should I get better rams?

Ok, I just read the review on the granite bay. I am a little confused. They are talking about the boards only run 1:1 ratio.
I thought if the agp/pci has lock feature it really don't matter you need other dividers. Can someone enlighten me? I been using rdram ram for couple years now and not too familiar with DDR.

 

[ChampionAtTufshop]

2x256samsung pc2700 should be good
after all you are guaranteed with the ram for at least 166mhz

however one thing im not sure about, the cpu:ram ratios
i dont know 100% if the ratio will just dissapear after a certain fsb, or will it stay no matter what fsb you are at

the reason why i bring this up, is because it will determine whether you should invest in some higher class ram (pc3000 or higher)
if say cpu is 166fsb and there is a 4:5 ratio, you can run the ram at 207.5mhz (415ddr) which couple with dual channel ddr would be awesome to say the least

maybe someone with a granite bay can answer that (somebody on these boards had one for testing and i believe he can, look in in the motherboard forum for the granite bay sticky)

 

[halkebul]

Good day. I agree with the above recommendations. Granite Bay or SiS 655 motherboard. P4 2.66GHz or you could get a 2.4B with guaranteed C1 stepping from Atacom. Two 256MB sticks of DDR333 SDRAM. Then overclock it to 3.1-3.2GHz.

 

[Jgtdragon]

Thanks guys. I just noticed the Granite bay motherboards (Asus at least) will be in retailers at 11/30/02. Guess I will wait it out one more week. 🙂