New system - your opinion?

[RichyH]

Hi, I'm thinking of building the following system, anyone see any potential problems/incompatibilities?

ABIT KT7A Mobo
Athlon Thunderbird 1Ghz
1 x 256Mb 133Mhz Dimm
IBM Deskstar 30Gb HD
Creative GeForce 256 GTS 2 32Mb

Cheers!

 

[Jex]

What you've shown here looks good. Be sure to get good RAM, like Crucial.

Any other components you're gonna put in? Sound card? Net card? CDROM? DVD? CD-RW?

 

[YBS1]

None in what you've listed, you may want to do a search on any soundcard problems that may exist as you've not listed one. There have been some people lately mentioning issues with SB Lives.

 

[madbitch2001]

YES, get ddr mobo and ram. If you buy pc133 right now your wasting money. Try a Asus A7M266 mobo, or maybe the A7A, or wait for the kt266 chipset to mature.

 

[V]

Don't you mean Creative Geforce 2 GTS?
Get a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card.

 

[madbitch2001]

I am not a creative lover, its quite the opposite, but they make good soundcards so I would look there. I have it and running the mobo I advised you get above, and no problems.

 

[RichyH]

Thanks for the comments . As far as sound cards go, it'll probably be a bog standard SB16 or SB128. Network card will be a Linksys 10/100, generic DVD and a Creative Dxr3 mpg decoder though hopefully that won't be needed with this spec!

 

[peemo]

If I were building an AMD system from scratch I'd get a nice case and a 450W PS.

 

[Howard]

<< If you buy pc133 right now your wasting money. >>



Quite the opposite. DDR motherboards hold only a slight margin of performance over SDR-based motherboards right now.

 

[E36M3]

I am with yucky, DDR systems show very little gain in performance. The best performance/price ration can be found in mobo's using the Via KT133A w/ 266fsb and pc133ram. Tests show that the TBirds benefit from the bus speed increase more that the ram increase.