Fastest slot A TBird was 1GHz.

PSU for this build is the Seasonic from this thread A tale of two PSUs - bought a few of them.

archsan wrote:

m1919 wrote:

sliderider wrote:

Awwww....and here I was hoping it would be a Slot A build.

Seconded.

Thirded. Eh, btw, what's the fastest slot A T-bird (not classic) you've ever seen? Were they even released in GHz models?

And bjt, what's the PSU you're using? I can't see it from the pics.

I've seen them for sale at 1ghz, which is as fast as they came, but those rarely ever show up and the people who sell them usually know what they have and how much to charge so they almost never go cheaply. I did manage to pick up both K7 and T-Bird Slot A Athlons at 950mhz cheaply, though. At that speed, you really can't tell the difference from around 900mhz on up to the top. Only when running benchmarks will you see any difference at all and then only because you have the actual numbers in front of you. When playing a game, you won't see much difference at all.

Final build
Put a bit of teflon dry lube (for bike chains) in the gfx card's fan bearing to quiet it down 😎

Nice & clean retro MATX build. Any plans to upgrade the video card? An 4600ti or FX5900 would rock in there.

Thanks. Yeah could do, wouldn't that be overkill for an Athlon 1200?

Of course, but the image quality is better and you can use AA. Just a thought anyway.... you have a really nice build the way it is already.

bjt wrote:

Thanks. Yeah could do, wouldn't that be overkill for an Athlon 1200?

That machine would be perfect for Splinter Cell!

GeForce 4 for the first title and the FX for Pandora Tomorrow.

I love that purple PCB motherboard.
Grats on a new system 😀

I'd love to build a system some day with all purple PCB in a white case (with white, not gray, inside as well). Seems there are a few purple graphics cards out there as well.