Athlon 2700+ !!

[Shamus MacNoob]

Well I must say I am very happy with my brand new setup .. just wanted to share it with you so here is what I got

The board MSI K7NG2-L



CPU
• Supports Socket A for AMD® Athlon™/Athlon™ XP/Duron™ processors @FSB 100/133/166
• Supports 600MHz up to Athlon™ XP 2700+ processor or higher
Chipset
• nVIDIA® nForce2 IGP Chipset
- Integrated TV encoder
- Supports DDR266/333 with internal graphic core,
DDR266/333/400 with external add-on card
- AGP 3.0 8x interface at 533MHz

• nVIDIA® nForce2 MCP Chipset
- AC97 Interface supporting up to two concurrent codecs
- Ultra ATA133 for the fastest hard disk throughput
- USB 2.0 EHCI/1.1 OHCI controller
FSB
• 100/133/166(200/266/333)MHz clocks are supported
Main Memory
• Supports six memory banks using three 184-pin DDR DIMMs
• Supports up to 3GB PC3200/2700/2100/1600 DDR SDRAMs
• Supports both 64-bit and 128-bit DDR SDRAM
Slots
• One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) 1.5V 4x/8x slot
• Five 32-bit PCI bus slots (support 3.3v/5v PCI bus interface)
• One ACR (Advanced Communication Riser) slot
BIOS
• The mainboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and expansion cards of the board automatically.
• The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface (DMI) function which records your mainboard specifications.
On-Board IDE
• An IDE controller on the MCP2/MCP2-T chipset provides IDE HDD/CDROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes
• Can connect up to four IDE devices
In-Chip TV-out
• Integrated TV-out encoder, through external bracket

Network
• Chipset integrated 10/100 Base-T Ethernet/Fast Ethernet
Audio
• Realtek ALC650 6-channel audio
On-Board Peripherals
- 1 floppy port that supports two FDD with 360KB, 720KB,1.44MB and 2.88MB
- 1 serial port and 1 VGA port
- 1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode
- 3 audio ports in vertical
- 6 USB ports (Rear * 4/ Front * 2)
- 1 RJ-45 jack
Dimension
30.5 cm(L) x 23 cm(W) ATX Form Factor
Mounting
6 mounting holes
Accessories

I added the Athlon 2700+

512MB DDR pc3200@400mhz set duel Channel

40Gig WD 7200prm 8mb cache harddrive and
carried over my MSI ti4200 128MB 8XAGP card
and CD burner 48x16x48
Sound Blaster live 5.1 digital with logitech 5.1's and a Z-640 subwoofer
with 350Watt power supply .. I am one happy Frog got it yesterday and just finished setting it all up

 

[Cosmin]

& benchmarks & price info .. ?

 

[w0lv3rin3]

nice nice

 

[neoterixx]

I have an Asus a7v-333 Mainboard with a 1.67 (athlon xp2000) and Im swapping that chip for a 2700

 

[Bretenn]

congrats.very nice setup... how that 2700 performs?

 

[Shamus MacNoob]

Originally posted by Cosmin
& benchmarks & price info .. ?

OK well I dropped $720 Canadien here is the break down

Athlon 2700+ with heat sink and fan= $212.75

Western Digital 40GIG 7200 rmp 8mb cache=$115

MSI K7N2G-L $169.05

2 X 256mb DDR400 PC3200 = $144.90

A floppy drive $18

Case with 350watt ps = $71

Total $730 ..... minus 2% for paying cash and no tax

and for a fast benchmark I hit over 12500 on 3dmark2001 but Iam not set up yet I had to transfer over 30gig from my old rig and have not got this settled yet but will start tweaking soon

 

[Shamus MacNoob]

Originally posted by Bretenn
congrats.very nice setup... how that 2700 performs?

Thanks I am very happy to say the least ... was a smooth operation no hickup's now I just want to make sense of the mess of files I have lol ... I had a 30gig drive that I needed to move onto this for a hold over as I switched over so its a little bit of a mess right now I sold my old rig and needed to move fast ..but I am very impressed with the whole setup its very smooth and stable