anime-dragon wrote:if possible can u post the price range.
If your going to build it yourself, might I first have you look at this:
<a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3432522582">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3432522582</a>
Note the KT600 chip - this is a must for anything faster than 2400+ AMD's
Next, note that there is nothing said about the
IDE: ULTRA DMA ATA 133/100/66 being --Serial--
many hard drives today are Serial Drive DMA 133/166 types - watch-out!!
I use this board for an example because it is my bid that won and the person who will be using it will also have one of my AMD 2500+'s and there is no need for having a MotherBoard which can not keep pace with the Processor!!!
I'm checking into the Socket 754 for AMD Athlon64 boards as well, so far this
<a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3434037967&category=42012">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3434037967&category=42012</a>
looks promissing - and as such might be a better option ^^
( however, this requires the PC3500 RAM's - price ? ( not to bad ^^ )
? CPU Prices ? If your going to use AMD's, use the Barton Design ^^
<a href="http://search.ebay.com/ws/search/SaleSearch?catref=C3&basicsearch=&ht=1&sosortproperty=1&satitle=amd+athlon&from=R5&sacategory=165">AMD Athlon's at E-bay</a>
or
<a href="http://www9.dealtime.com/xKW-amd/FD-0/linkin_id-3003990/NS-1/AP-1/GS.html">http://www9.dealtime.com/xKW-amd/FD-0/linkin_id-3003990/NS-1/AP-1/GS.html</a>
^^