Need a little help

Looking for a new MOBO + Chip,

Has to be amd,

Something that overclocks well,

BUT.... im on a budget of £170

Any thoughts on what to buy and were from?

 

170? perhaps an epox mobo (8kha) and a low end tbird (1ghz?)

 

Any more sugestions,

And where to buy?

I apretiate it gratefully

 

tek, ocs, kingdom, ocuk all the usual places

 

The mother board i find under that name is a DDR board,

Will it take my normal pc133 memory till i buy some or can i buy the same mobo but not the ddr version?

Please people, refrain from calling me an old timer and i need DDR, i know its tempting but still

 

nope, you'd need more ram as DDR is 184 pin and SDR is 168 if i remember correctly.

there is a non DDR, the epox 8kta3 or something, and there are other SDR boards still around

 

is the non DDR board still good for overclocking?, is it as good as the abit kt7a?

 

I think it is pretty good, but you always get better performance with ddr ram.

 

Go for the K7S5A if I were you!

I will go for the ECS K75SA if I were you on a budget! I'm using the same board and it is pretty fast. It also let you use your existing sdram first and then you can change to ddr later cos it has 2 slots for sd and 2 for ddr memory but you can not use both types at the same time! It is only about £60 so you can still buy a good AMD cpu with £110 possibly a athlon XP1500. Try going to http://www.hitechpc.co.uk/ they do very good price!

 

That ECS K7S5A isn't particularly great for overclocking though!

 

Well I'm running my XP1600@1575Ghz (150Mhzfsb) very stable! Overclocking the cpu with the bios not with cpucool.
What else can you ask for £60 with on board sound as well? The SIS735 chipset is not the fastest but is a very fast and stable.

 

Fair Enough!