First post, by waterbeesje
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- Oldbie
There's this time when vintage expands. For me socket A enters the arena. Now I've had a nice socket A system in the past, when these were new, but that's 20 years ago.
So I'm a bit stuck in what's a fine base to set up a gaming computer that's comfortly running 2000 games. I don't have any particular games in my mind yet.
Now I've got five socket A boards in my pile, of which three have all their caps in tact:
- MSI K3T ultra - VIA KT333
- Biostar M7NCDU - nforce2 400 ultra+
- Pc Chips M848A v5.0 - SiS 746 FX / 963(L)
Two boards would need a recap first:
- MSI K7T Turbo2 - VIA KT133A
- unknown board that lacks AGP
I will be using an Athlon XP for this build (which currently seats in the Biostar board, but may be switched to another board)
Also I've got two possible graphics cards:
- ATI 9800 pro
- Nvidia 6600
And a 9600 and/or 9700 if I recall correctly. There's a bunch of low end cards too.
For ram I'll be looking at DDR obviously. I've got 2 similar 512MB ddr400 modules that support cl3, maybe cl2.5. And one 1GB cl3. I may look for two 1GB cl2.5 modules later on.
I'm thinking of choosing the Biostar, because I know the nforce2 400 was good because of the ddr400 support. On the other hand I could be so wrong... Could you help me pointing in the right direction?
Stuck at 10MHz...