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Socket A with Voodoo5

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First post, by elianda

Posted on 2014-03-29, 23:45

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Once I used a socket A system as main rig. Now some parts are changed, but it is still in operational condition.
As some topics came up about a nice socket A system, maybe this gives some inspiration.

Enermax 365W PSU
Athlon XP Barton 3200+ (with FSB400) with manual controllable Arctic Cooling fan speed
Asrock K7NF2RAID mainboard using the nForce2 chipset (already onboard sound and LAN)
2x1GB DDR400 RAM (with GSkill heatspreaders)
Point of View Geforce 6800GT AGP with replaced cooler
small Wifi card from MSI
Soundblaster X-Fi xTremeMusic
Voodoo5 5500 PCI with DVI
drives are a LG GSA-4040B which is DVD-RAM capable, a WD Raptor 150 GB and a 200 GB WD drive.

The system runs Windows XP. Benchmarks show that the GF6800GT is usually running in CPU limitation. So a faster one doesn't make much sense.

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Reply 1 of 4, by Mau1wurf1977

Posted on 2014-03-30, 01:00

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I like that you chose an Asrock board!

At around that time they started making boards and made a name for themselves.

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Reply 2 of 4, by elianda

Posted on 2014-03-30, 02:23

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Originally I had in this case running a A7V266-E (KT266A) with a TBred 2400+ and later a A7V600 (KT600) with the Barton 3200+. Due to circumstances I bought the Asrock board shortly before AthlonXP mainboards were not commonly available anymore. I put a system together for someone else, but I think it wasn't used much in the end and came back to me later. So this board has not seen much "power on" time.
I decided then to change the KT600 for the NF2U, mainly because the VIA southbridge can not handle SATA2 drives. The speed boost due to dual channel is negligible. Overall the KT600 was stable and the Asrock board is also stable, no issues like with the early AthlonXP boards.

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Reply 3 of 4, by PcBytes

Posted on 2014-03-30, 11:07

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Does the NF2U Asrock support SATA II?
I knew only ASUS boards with onboard SATA chip (Promise or JMicron)can be modified to use SATA II.

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Reply 4 of 4, by elianda

Posted on 2014-03-30, 12:19

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Ok I was not precise enough, the key feature is auto negotiation for the speed. The VIA southbridge does not have this feature.

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