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I am pretty knowledgeable for my age, 16, with computers. A few months ago my AMD Athlon (classic, slot a) system just litterally fried. My Abit-KA7 that I had in it poped and the speaker made a weird sound while playing the so CPU-intensive game Rollercoaster tycoon (lol). It was the board that went bad, but my chip is still good as it boots and works in my friends athlon system. I went out on a limb to begin with when I bought that AMD because I am an Intel guy, and I thought for the price jeeze why not. That bit me in the ass. I had to reformat a lot with the AMD system, and I got out of the blue resests and what not while running windows 2000. I know it could have been the memory, but I ran AMD-approved PC133 memory in there. Anyways, my moms computer is currently a Celeron 433 that gives her no trouble, its just slow and I was wondering if it would be a good idea to fork out the 150 bucks for a new board and stick my athlon in there? I was thinking to go the Asus K7V route this time around since that Abit fried. Anyone have any problems with the classic athlons? I sure did, I will never ever buy another AMD chip again. I am doing this just to give her a faster comp.
After that mobo fried, I bought a Dual P3 733 system and 512mb of memory for it. I know a little insane, but I am running Win2k pro and I like to burn cd's and still use the computer, and its been running for 3 months solid now, no problems whatsoever. It has an Abit VP6 w/ata 100 raid controller in it. My advice to people thinking to go the AMD route is do not do it. I don't care if you people think so highly of them, they can't match the stability of intel products. Sure sure you'll get 12 more FPS than me on Quake III, but at least mine doesn't blue screen.
LOL I know I just started a major fire fight, send me your comments.
After that mobo fried, I bought a Dual P3 733 system and 512mb of memory for it. I know a little insane, but I am running Win2k pro and I like to burn cd's and still use the computer, and its been running for 3 months solid now, no problems whatsoever. It has an Abit VP6 w/ata 100 raid controller in it. My advice to people thinking to go the AMD route is do not do it. I don't care if you people think so highly of them, they can't match the stability of intel products. Sure sure you'll get 12 more FPS than me on Quake III, but at least mine doesn't blue screen.
LOL I know I just started a major fire fight, send me your comments.