[Tfug] hardware upgrade advice

[Leo Przybylski]

Charles,

I haven't had much experience with the hardware, but I have read in 
several places (especially gaming forums), that the KT400 is not all its 
cracked up to be. It allows you to use the  DDR memory at higher clock 
speeds, but I've read that you are better off with the KT333.  KT400 is 
prone to crashing with the faster memory. Also the memory isn't really 
that fast anyway. In most cases cases PC2700 is faster than the PC3200.

Also, if I were going to get a motherboard at all, I'd go with the 
nForce2 chipset by nVidia with dual-channel ddr memory. W00t!

I've used the predecessor that wasn't that great (nForce), and I was 
immensely impressed. I can't wait for an excuse to upgrade to nForce2.

-Leo Przybylski
http://foopan.leosandbox.org
http://grow.arizona.edu

P.S. just looked up some benchmarking by the good guys at Tom's Hardware.
http://www6.tomshardware.com/mainboard/20021007/index.html

Charles Tompkins wrote:

>Hey Tfuggers,
>
>I'd welcome any commentary you might have on a hardware overhaul -- 
>specifically any issues you might be aware of with Linux (SuSe 7.3 now but will 
>do a concurent upgrade to either RH/Suse 8)  .  I've googled around a bit and 
>haven't found much to go on, especially in the motherboard area.   
>
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
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>Mobo: Abit AT7-MAX2 KT400 [AthlonXP w/Audio, LAN, RAID, 200/266FSB, 
>ATA/133, Serial ATA/150, AGP 8x, 4DDR DIMM, 5PCI, USB 2.0, IEEE 1394]
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>CPU: AthlonXP 2100+ [1.73GHz]
>
>Memory: Corsair CMX512-3200C2 512MB DDR400 PC3200 64Mx64 184 DIMM 
>Cas2 w/Heat Spreader
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>Video: Abit Siluro GF4 Ti4200-8x OTES AGP 8x 128MB DDR w/TV-out and DVI
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>Case: Antec Performance Plus Series Plus 1080AMG SoHo File Server Case 
>w/430W power supply
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>Cable Modem: Linksys BEFCMU10 Etherfast Cable Modem w/USB and Ethernet 
>Connection
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>Chaz
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