[lug] [OT] New Mobo Questions

[Michael Deck]

At 10:27 AM 2/5/01 -0700, Bonnell, Doug wrote:
>You're thinking slot A rather than socket A? The K7A is a for the slot A
>processor, not
>the Duron/Thunderbird.

My fault for trying to remember rather than looking at the page while typing.

I'm thinking of the Asus A7V, Socket A, VIA KT133 Chipset

>The UDMA 100 drives require a special cable. The Asus A7v supplies two sets
>of IDE
>channels, one for UDMA 100 and one for 33/66. You can use the standard 40
>pin cables
>with the slower channels.
>
>AMD recommends a 300W supply for all Athlon class processors. It's not just
>for
>overclocking.
>
>Hope this helps....
>
>Doug Bonnell
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Deck [SMTP:deckm at cleansoft.com]
> > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2001 10:09 AM
> > To:   lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > Subject:      [lug] [OT] New Mobo Questions
> >
> > I'm considering replacing the mainboard in one of my elderly Linux boxes.
> > Based on discussions in this group and on Tom's Hardware, I'm looking at
> > an
> > Asus K7A board with an Athlon 800 chip. I think this would suit my needs
> > pretty well.
> >
> > But I'm concerned about peripherals, specifially IDE. I have a bunch of
> > drives right now, I believe some of them are not UltraDMA drives.
> > Somewhere
> > I thought I read that the ribbon cables for the Ultra drives are different
> >
> > from those of the earlier drives. I'm worried that my current drives won't
> >
> > just plug onto the mobo which means investing in drives and spending time
> > moving data around.
> >
> > Another question is the power supply and cooling. The instructions on
> > Tom's
> > Hardware suggest overclocking, something I'm not sure I care to take on
> > right now. I believe the overclocking is the reason they recommend a 300W
> > powersupply and an auxiliary cooling fan.
> >
> > Is this true? Or should I have the 300W power supply plus the cooling fan
> > if I'm going to run this at spec?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >    Mike
> >
> > Michael Deck
> > Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.
> >
> >
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Michael Deck
Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.