Update: my wife's upgrade is complete

Malladine

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Mar 31, 2003
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From this:

Athlon 850
256mb PC2100
GeForce2 MX400

To this:

Athlon XP 1700+ (running at 1.467ghz...) with a Vantec Aeroflow HSF.
1000mb PC2700
Radeon 9700 Gold

Wow.

From 2500 3dmarks to 10300. Very cool :)

One problem is that the K7S5A mobo did not recognise the CPU at it's stock 1.46ghz speed, but at 1.1. I had to overclock the FSB/DRAM to 133/133 from 100/100 to get it up to it's default speed where i'd planned on reaching 1.8+ :frown:
I hope a BIOS update will fix that...