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[candle_86]

Well I dropped my 20 dollar case today so I went to local shop and looked through there junk computer, and found a computer with a Thunderbird 1.4, 128mb of SD, and a board. Booted them and they work, they had them in a trash heap. Well it gives me better scores then my P3 did, and im trading P3 + board in for an XP1800 and Radeon 9000 AGP tomorrow so this is nice and just one week for i get my other rig.

[ctjoyce]

That dosn't sound too bad, atleast its better than what you have now. But that did bring me back to my first build. Ahh those were the good days.

Cheers
Cameron

[candle_86]

Oh forgot to mention will have 2x245mb SDram in this thing. I have 384 right now and they are gonna trade me the two 128mb SD-Rams for a 256 stick free. I think I can handle FS9 better now the AGP alone should help. This board will run a 2600 266mhz chip but then i wont have anything cept an intergrated dx6 video card.

[candle_86]

Ok talked to shop owner, I can either get an XP1800 Palamino, 2000 Tbred, or 2100 tbred. I am looking over specs now. If you wanna know the board its ECS K7SEM rev 3.0A

[ctjoyce]

I would go with the XP personally, however I don't know much about the older AMDs. My friend used to run one in his rig, and for its time it did some pretty great things.

Cheers
Cameron

[candle_86]

they are all XP chips. I might also see if he has a 2600-M with the barton core, those are 266mhz fsb parts and i have a program for setting multiliers from windows

[ctjoyce]

Ya sorry for being general, I ment the 2000TBird (I was arguing with my mum whilst posting). I dont remember the difference between the 2100 and the 2000 other than clock speed though. You should check to see if its one of the 3700+ vs 3800+ types of things.

Cheers
Cameron

[candle_86]

i know both are 256k L2, the 2100 is T-bred B the 2000 is t-Bred A

[ctjoyce]

Okay, after some extensive reading, and alot of dead ends I find that the A and B are different revisions of the same processer. In all the reading I have done people have suggested going with the B model for better stability and overclocking.

Cheers
Cameron

[candle_86]

yea i knew that, it was price vs preformance to me. I went with the 1800 and Radeon 9000 Pro. the 2000 came with Radeon 9000 and 2100 with Radeon 7500. Its not to bad now.