Reply 160 of 223, by FFXIhealer
Not a helpful post, but I like posting.
My Socket A (462) motherboard is an Abit KX7-333 board without the RAID. It supports all AMD Athlon and Athlon XP CPUs up to the Barton 3200+. It has 3 RAM slots and I currently have 2x 1GB DDR-400 sticks in there running at 333MHz. It supports AGP 2x/4x and has, like, 5 PCI slots and no ISA slots at all. It originally ran with an Athlon XP 1800+ Palomino, but I have upgraded the CPU to the 3200+ Barton, since as others have said it was so cheap. I also got a slightly bigger cooler to go on it as well.
However, the HDD was iffy and the RAM kept throwing errors, even though it was known good RAM. So I had it professionally recapped. Now, people here will think I'm insane for spending ~$130 USD on it, but I sent it out to a guy up north with professional resoldering tools and stuff and he put brand-new Nichicons in there for me. It's been 100% rock stable ever since.
However, I got an x700 Radeon that refuses to POST when it's in the system. We here on the forum are undecided if it's a bad card or my PSU (@25A on the 5V rail) is simply not powerful enough to get the card started. I have my old 9550xl Radeon card, but that's barely a workstation card. I know better now. I want a 9800 Pro or XT, but those are still expensive on Ebay and I currently don't have the kind of old-school beefy PSU to run it. I'd need to also get one of those 35A PSUs they mentioned very early in this thread.