P4 user want to change to ATHLON your advices are welcome

[EDurney]

That`s right, i need your advice..
The thing is that i already have:

P4 tower and power supply
256 SDRAM / PC 133
TNT2 Nvidia 32Mb M64
Samsung Syncmaster 17`` monitor
LG CDRW 12x8x32
SEagate barracuda ata 66/7200 (C/D)

And i need to know , Can I use all this stuff
With a MOBO Gigabyte Ga-7DX and an AMD XP 1800 CPU????
is that MOBO OK? is compatible with the rest of my Hardware? ( especially the RAM)

Please, any suggestion wiil be well received.

Thank you guys.

Eduardo Durney
[email protected]

[8mmOverdose]

i can answer your ram question. the ga7dx uses pc2100 ram, not pc133. http://crucial.com usually has good prices on ram.

[Allen Hallada]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by EDurney:
That`s right, i need your advice..
The thing is that i already have:

P4 tower and power supply
256 SDRAM / PC 133
TNT2 Nvidia 32Mb M64
Samsung Syncmaster 17`` monitor
LG CDRW 12x8x32
SEagate barracuda ata 66/7200 (C/D)

And i need to know , Can I use all this stuff
With a MOBO Gigabyte Ga-7DX and an AMD XP 1800 CPU????
is that MOBO OK? is compatible with the rest of my Hardware? ( especially the RAM)

Please, any suggestion wiil be well received.

Thank you guys.

Eduardo Durney
[email protected]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>


Check the thread in the above Windows forum for the Under 900.00 PC. It has a listing of everything you will need to run an Athlon like the GA7DX. For the money I'm a big fan of the 1.4Ghz T-bird still with the Volcano II heatsink/fan. Has outperformed the XPs on most motherboards so far with PTLE. Maybe that will change with Windows XP support coming.
Good luck.
Allen

[Dreamware]

I would not change to an Athlon if you already have a P4. Tests fully prove that with Windows XP optimized architecture for the P4, you should see a vast improvment when PTLE is released in May for Windows XP. Athlon XP owners will also see an improvement in Windows XP because it is also optimized for this processor.

[da BaSsTaRd!]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Dreamware:
Athlon XP owners will also see an improvement in Windows XP because it is also optimized for this processor.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

windows xp is optimized or PTLE on winxp is optimized?

[Allen Hallada]

Good point Brian,
I doubt that the XP processor is optimized for PTLE. Steinberg is the only company that is working with AMD to optimize processors for its programs that I know of.
Allen

[Dreamware]

da Basstard: PTLE is not optimized, but Windows XP is optimized for the Athlon XP processor. During tests we have found that even with applications not optimized, as long as they run in Windows XP, have offered a significant performance boost.