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system recommendations?

vishal

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i have a p3 450 and i want to upgrade it to a athlon. i'm planning to get:

1.2ghz athlon 266mhz
epox 8k7a mobo
256mb pc2100 ddr corsair cas2.5
enermax EG365P-VE 350watt p/s
ibm deskstar 60gxp 40gb

got 2 questions:

what's a good cooler to get, golden orb, global win, etc.?
(btw i live in canada so i can't get some coolers, here's a site with 1's i can get http://www.ncix.com/Canada/productlist.cfm?majorcatid=100&minorcatid=1023)

what's the diff between pc2100 and XMS2400 ram?
 
Make yaself up something like this 😉

Qty Category Item
1 x Case Antec SX830
1 x Power Supply Enermax 350 Watt
1 x CPU AMD Athlon 1.33 GHz
1 x Motherboard EPOX 8K7A Socket A DDR
1 x CPU Cooling Millenium (sp?) Glaciator Socket A
1 x RAM 256 MB DDR PC2100 CAS2.5
1 x Video Card Hercules Kyro2 64MB
1 x Sound Card Sound Blaster Live! 5.1
1 x Hard Drive IBM 60GXP 40GB 7200RPM
1 x CD-RW Teac IDE 12x10x32
1 x DVD Pioneer IDE 16X DVD Slot Load
1 x Modem Zoom 56k PCI Winmodem
1 x Network LinksysPCI 10/100
4 x Case Fans 80mm Panaflo
1 x CPU Overclocking Options Multiplier + FSB
1 x IDE/Floppy Cable Mods Hand Folded
 
BTW PC2100 is rated at 133 MHz FSB, PC2400 is rated at 150 MHz FSB. If you don't plan to overclock, get the PC2100.
 
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