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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (10186)	2/2/2000 8:32:00 PM
From: Dan Spangenberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

I haven't spent much time in here lately, so I really just scanned over several hundred posts. Has there been much discussion on the Athlon? I am right in the middle of building a box to upgrade my trading machine with. I bought an Athlon 550 oc'ed to 750 from step thermodynamics. www.step-thermodynamics.com Great product, works just as advertised. and priced pretty good. 750's are going for $340 now with complete cooling. Their ram is reasonably priced also. I initially put it in an Asus K7M motherboard and installed Windows 2000. I had serious problems. It seemed like everything had an incompatability issue. I had random lockups that I never could diagnose. I played with this for about 2 weeks, then bailed on the Asus and returned it. Seems like many people have problems with the Asus, judging from the sentiments on Usenet. I now have it in a Gigabyte GA-7IX MB and am very happy. It is running quite stable under Win2000. I haven't done any benchmarks yet, but this setup is very fast. It feels a wide margin faster than my current Celeron running at 504mhz. and quite a bit faster than any setup I've ever done before. I am using 384 meg of ram. Anyone else have the same experience? Dan

To: Dan Spangenberg who wrote (10186)	2/2/2000 11:32:00 PM
From: peter michaelson	Respond to of 14778

Wow, I just love that shop-vac method!!! I might test it just for the fun of it. Hey, we can play shop-vac tug of war - with one on each end. Thanks, Dan. peter