On Thursday 29 May 2003 01:05 pm, John Drouhard wrote: > > How about an AOpen AK77-8XN? It isn't too expensive, has 8x AGP support > and the KT400 chipset. I am thinking about pairing it with an Athlon > 2200+ and oc'ing it with Greg's advice. Does this sound good with a > Radeon 9500 Pro? I do know that the newest drivers are supposed to work > real good with WineX, which i use. Or does anyone think that DirectX 9.0 > will really matter. Otherwise I'll go with the Nvidia Geforce4 Ti 4400. > I think any KT400 board should do. If you want to be sure on the video, get nVidia. You never said if you were going to dual-boot windows, but if you're not, will dx9 really matter?
If you OC the 2200+ your potentially going to have a problem because if you move to 166fsb, you're going to have to drop the multiplier, and to do that with the Athlon over 2100+ you have to make a chip mod, a small one, but you'd still have to do it. The other option is to leave the fsb at 133 and just increase the multiplier. Also, don't expect the same kind of performance boost with the 2200+ than I got with the 1700+. a nearly 50% overclock like that has pretty much been reserved for the 1700+ because it is a very special chip. Moral of the story, read up and make sure you are comfortable with what you are doing because there are no guarantees. If you know what you are doing, it is pretty easy, but if you try to approach it without gaining any knowledge, you could very well fry something. Start here and watch the wrap. http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?s=6dda6dfbae7758831b59bd69ca39a7e1&forumid=3 -- Greg
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