No good Celeron, thinking AMD!!

[EddieDaBeast]

Bought a C 633 runs @ 790 on default voltage, but won´t start @ 950, and I don´t have the guts to go higher then 1.95 volt.

Now I decided to spend even more money on my computer!?
Well, in a O/C point of view, Duron 700-800 and Mosel Pc-133 or T-bird 900 and keep my old Pc-100.

And mobo.......Abit or ASUS?

Anyone that has anything to say, say it please!


Celeron 633@790
Abit BH6
128mb Apacer Pc-100
Annihilator Pro
Soundblaster Live Player

 

[compuwiz1]

Yes, I have something to say. Get an MSI K7T Pro 2!
Here is the review
AnandTech runs MSI in their servers.

 

[KBtrade]

go for the AMD, since I own a boatload of AMD stock!

 

[Jugernot]

Go AMD, I was an Intel fanatic for over 4 years and finally bought a Duron 600 a couple months ago. I'm up and running at 900MHz on my Abit KT7 Raid setting pretty.

Go for it!

 

[SubZero00]

hey compuwiz1,

i read that review... i was wondering if you or anyone knows how much that MSI mobo is going for right now. I am too lazy to look for myself

 

[micron]

It's not out yet.

 

[Vpham97]

AMD = Faster performance & More money in your wallet.

 

[spencer]

You might want to consider the Epox EP-8KTA+ motherboard also. It's alot cheaper than the Asus and Abit motherboards and all the reviews I have read about it have been very positive.
http://www.ocworkbench.com/hardware/epox/8kta+/8kta+p1.htm
http://www.awaremag.com/hardware/epox/8kta_1.html

 

[vvvvvv]

amd is good

 

[RoadRuner]

the asus a7v is like $130 shipped now. nominal price for a GREAT mobo.

Spend money on good ram or at least have pc-133 CAS3, its lightspeed faster than pc-100 with durons!

spend some bucks on a good heatsink. the durons NEED it.

 

[Citadel]

Agreed with everyone. Just threw a Muskin REV2 PC133 RAM on my A7V and my memory benchmarks increased 35%! Duron is a much better performance vs price CPU than the Celery 2 is.

 

[EddieDaBeast]

Thanks for all good advise.

But!?
Spend money on Duron and Mosel Pc-133
OR
T-bird?

And HSF, Alpha+YS combo OR Globalwin?

 

[wj]

You just got a celeron that want overclock. I have two PC's one Intel and one AMD and I like them both.



wj

 

[Assimilator1]

For Durons & Tbirds ,I'd go for Abit KT7 ,stable,fast & best overclocking features

 

[SmackdownHotel]

KT7 all the way, the best Duron/Tbird overclocking board out there by far

 

[tigger80]

the epox motherboard is good little cheap overclocker. But abit has all the bells and whistles for tweaking to get the max performance of your cpu

 

[thai]

the msi k7t pro2(6940) can be purchase for 99 dollars at mwave.com. this motherboard supports multiplier/fsb/and voltage adjustment within bios. very stable too, according to anandtech.

 

[JonJon]

if you're the overclocking type you'll get a much better value with the duron if you have the guts to push it to it's limits but if you want run something at rated speeds, go with T-bird. Abit kt-7 has some really nice features