Thinking about going rogue (AMD)

[RichieZ]

With the new T-birds I'm thinking about building a new system. But I'm wondering about compativibility. I want a socket A design so I can OC w/o a goldenfinger.

Basically here's my questions:

Does the G2 GTS run alright on the KX133 chipset, since KT133 is basically the same i think it would work the same

Is Crucial PC133 RAM compatibale w/ the Via chipsets.

How much of a performance boost am I going to get coming from a 550E@733. I want a tbird like 900 and hope to OC to over a gig

 

[da loser]

i think the compatibility problems with geforce and athlon boards as well as memory are for the irongates, might be wrong though.

I would think the memory problems arose with the cheapo generic stuff on pricewatch, not the quality crucial, again might be wrong.

I think the performance boost is negligible with the geforce gts if you run at high resolutions between a p3 600->1ghz athlon or p3

depending on what you use your computer for of course.
http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1252&p=22
IMO-not worth it, save you moolah for late fall.
new video and cpu with ddr support.

 

[Mday]

it's not an problem at all. there is no real compability issue anymore and never really was. cheap crap is always cheap crap.

you can get a duron or a slightly higer priced (and i mean slightly, the cost difference is not much) thunderbird and an asus a7v.

and remember, we don't have word on the limits of the tbird or the duron\spitfire. and getting a higher labeled processor usually means the % of speed increase is not as high as a lower labeled processor. meaning a 900 to a gig is like what, 11%. but a 700 to a gig is over 40%. you can get a cheaper processor that overclocks to a speed similar (at, above, or below depending on core which is different on every other processor) to a more expensive processor.