Zuni wrote:
"I have my new system half ready to build, and the wait is just killing me . I'm upgrading after a year of running a tbird 900 Mhz, not that the system wasn't fast enough but it was time for change . I have my new motherboard and cpu's here Thunder K7, and dual 1.4's, but the damn powersupply wont be here for another week , those 460 watt's are hard to source and even harder to get shipped to Canada. Can't wait to piece this system together and run some tests . Just thought I'd share."
Heh, I know the feeling. I put my duallie together last week, and I've been thoroughly impressed. I wasn't happy with having to purchase a proprietary power supply for the S2462, but I figure I can sell it soon enough so as not to lose a lot of value. I don't plan on keeping this setup longer than 2-3 months, if that, whenever a "consumer" dual-AMD board appears that uses the regular ATX 2.03 connectors. Believe me, the performance of 2 1.2GHz AthlonMP's is phenomenal. Faster than running dual 1.4 regular Thunderbirds, due to the Palomino core being SMP-optimized, the hardware prefetching, etc. You can run the dual 1.4 Thunderbird's on this board, but I'd highly recommend using AthlonMPs. The 1.0GHz parts are <$190 now.