2500+ & Abit NF7-S & mushkin PC433 & 9800SE All-In-Wonder

[Jo Schwarz]

Hi,

i want to buy the following system:

CPU AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Boxed
MB ATX SA Abit NF7-S V2.0 nForce2
DDR PC433 1GB Mushkin Dual-Kit Level 1
128MB Hercules 9800SE All-In-Wonder RTL
2x HDD SATA 80GB Samsung SP0812C 8MB
GEH Midi Chieftec DX-01 SL-D-U Silver
PSU Tagan TG380-U01 380W
DVD IDE Lite-On 16/48
DVDR IDE NEC ND-2500A +-R/RW
5x YS-Tech Silent FD1281253B-2A

I choosed 2500+ boxed, because in my shop weren't any tray's left and
i read that Boxed isn't as bad. For the Abit, i think, it's the best
board at the moment for the xp.

I wanted to take corsair's, but there were only mushkin and the 433 is
just 10$ more than the 400.

I read that the 9800SE All-in-Wonder is easy to trick with another
driver and will work as 9800 Pro with the extra pipes.

The Samsung's should work as Fast Raid, perhaps i take 160er.

The chieftec looks good and has good design for cooling and the tagan
gives enough power.

I'm very sure that i get a locked Barton, so i just want to push FSB
to a stable level. Do i make some basic error ? Do you have experience
with this combo(s) and can give me your best settings and benchmark
values ?

Thx for reply.
-
Jo

 

[Jon Danniken]

I read that the 9800SE All-in-Wonder is easy to trick with another
driver and will work as 9800 Pro with the extra pipes.

Maybe yes, maybe no; it depends on whether or not the other four pipes will work or not; you've
got a 50% chance at best (assuming the card is 256bit to start with).

Me, I ended up buying a 9700PRO and overclocking it to 9800PRO speed.

Jon

 

[Jo Schwarz]

Maybe yes, maybe no; it depends on whether or not the other four pipes will work or not; you've
got a 50% chance at best (assuming the card is 256bit to start with).

Me, I ended up buying a 9700PRO and overclocking it to 9800PRO speed.

Jon

Thanks for the advice. I read that the AiW is always 256 Bit, so I
hope the pipes will work.

Jo

 

[Jo Schwarz]

Hi,

i want to buy the following system:

CPU AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Boxed
MB ATX SA Abit NF7-S V2.0 nForce2
DDR PC433 1GB Mushkin Dual-Kit Level 1
128MB Hercules 9800SE All-In-Wonder RTL
2x HDD SATA 80GB Samsung SP0812C 8MB
GEH Midi Chieftec DX-01 SL-D-U Silver
PSU Tagan TG380-U01 380W
DVD IDE Lite-On 16/48
DVDR IDE NEC ND-2500A +-R/RW
5x YS-Tech Silent FD1281253B-2A

I wanted to take corsair's, but there were only mushkin and the 433 is
just 10$ more than the 400.

I now read that it is better to be in sync with Ram and Mobo. So for
the Abit PC2700 will be best, because Multiplier for the Barton is
fixed. But I probably want to upgrade to Athlon 64 Proc and Mobo in
one year, so PC3200 will be better.

But then, what are PC3500s good for ?

Jo

 

[Jo Schwarz]

I now read that it is better to be in sync with Ram and Mobo. So for
the Abit PC2700 will be best, because Multiplier for the Barton is
fixed. But I probably want to upgrade to Athlon 64 Proc and Mobo in
one year, so PC3200 will be better.

The Abit NF7-S V2.0 supports up to 3 Dimms DDR 200, 266, 333 and 2
Dimms DDR 400, but only Versionn 2.0. So PC3200 will be very good for
it too.