Finally finished it

[Maverick]

well for now at least.

I built my first computer. Heres a list of parts almost everything was off of pricewatch.

ECS elitegroup K7S5A motherboard
AMD athlon xp 2100 (1.6 or 1.7)
256 ddr2100
60 gig hd western digital
geforce4 video card w/tv and s video out
Ben Q 52x24x52 CD-RW
400watt case.

It will do for right now I spent a little bit under $450 for everything but I still want to get some more ram and a soundcard with RCA outputs.

Thanks brian for helping me with the jumpers since I didn't know which ones need to be where.

[GiRLieGirL SoL]

Great sig

[ShervRacer]

thats nice. SHoulda gone with a P4 though... A P4 1.8A can take you to 2.4 easily.. im at 2.8ghz oc'd with stock intel cooler :)
I used to be on AMD.. but they are seriously lagging... and i have less problems with Intel chips than AMD.

[TXKompressor]

Originally posted by ShervRacer
thats nice. SHoulda gone with a P4 though... A P4 1.8A can take you to 2.4 easily.. im at 2.8ghz oc'd with stock intel cooler :)
I used to be on AMD.. but they are seriously lagging... and i have less problems with Intel chips than AMD.

I have had the opposite, more problems with the Pentiums then the Athlons and Palominos... Seems the AMD's take overclocking better, just in my experience.

Sounds like a nice machine...

[Brian]

AMD owns intel. They may be lagging a bit for the moment, but from a price performance standpoint they are ahead of the game. I wouldn't trade my athlon xp for anything.

[ShervRacer]

THeres no chip better than the 1.6A and 1.8A p4... It is the best value for the buck. 1.6 goes to 2.5easily... now thats VALUE!

[ShervRacer]

Actually i made a mistake.. i didnt have problems with the amd chip.. it was the Chipset... VIA chipsets suck major. Unless they are the revised versions.
I for one have had the best experience with SiS chipsets. THen intel. I never liked AMD's chipsets... the sucked.

[Maverick]

since you mentioned it...........it has SiS chipset

[ShervRacer]

good.

[exciv2000]

That's pretty similar to my setup. BTW, I'm pretty sure the Athlon2100XP is at 1.73Ghz.

I've got a Gigabyte Mobo tho with onboard USB 2.0 and Firewire (IEEE 1394) and serial ATA/raid and paralell ATA/raid.
Athlon2100 XP
6XX MB of DDR2100
40 Gig Western Digital 7200 RPM
80 Gig Maxtor 7200 RPM
SBLive 5.1 Platinum with LiveDrive
Abit Siluro 64 MB Geforce 2 MX 400 (soon to be ATI AIW 9700)
Plextor 48x24x48 CD-R/RW
400 Watt PC Power and Cooling in full tower case

That's just the best of my babies, I've got 2 more home builts plus a Thinkpad laptop, and my fiancee has her computer too.

[ShervRacer]

Ohh yeah i also have a laptop with the same 1.8A chip in my pc.. its overclocked to 2.3ghz... I had to take out the Heatpipe cooling system and lap it. then i had to use some artic silver. Plus i increaed the airflow and put in a higher RPM fan... its not loud thank god. And gets decent temps. And much faster :)
But if your not too carefull, you can sorta burn your self. ITs only if you leave it on the bed for liek 2 hours whiles its compressing something... it can get pretty nasty. but if you put it on your lap or a hard surface.. it never gets hot