Attention all SIS lowers!

[UtwigMU]

Well, can you reuse CPU?

How much RAM do you have now?

Do you have strong enough power supply?

With KT133A it's best to switch motherboard. Investing in SDR SDRAM is pointless ATM. If you had 512MB or more you could go ECS K7S5A (which is what I'm considering among other options, depends on the money and moment of purchase).

If you intend to reuse CPU consider nForce, SiS 745 or 748 or KT600 based AMD motherboard.

512MB of Corsair CMX 512-3200LL 512MB DDR 2-2-2 costs 181€ here, 2700LL is 149€ and vanilla unbranded (at least not in pricelist) PC2700 is 92€.

Considering i splurged 155€ for 512MB of Micron PC133CAS2 a year ago, theese prices are sweet.

If you're buying RAM, by all means possible get something quality. Kingston value RAM is good budget option, otherwise, Corsair, Micron or Mushkin.

[az]

Infineon 512 MB PC333 CL2: 72.50 EUR.

Kingston ValueRAM 512 MB PC333 CL2: 89.00 EUR

Kingston ValueRAM 512 MB PC400 CL2.5: 89.00 EUR

AZ

[az]

Oh, and Corsair XMS 512 MB PC400 CL2: 129.00 EUR

Corsair XMS 512 MB PC433 CL2: 150.00 EUR

I say PC333 instead of PC2700, and PC400 instead of PC3200. And PC433 instead of PC3500. I can remember it better this way

AZ

[UtwigMU]

Az, if you'll keep listing those tempting low prices, I'll start asking you to buy the hw in Germany for me.

[Nowhere]

for me too

otoh I have ~140 km to border with Germany.
But that's still little too far such small shopping...probably all savings would go to founding trip.

Utwig: as I said earlier, I'm reusing almost everything - so basically this won't be a new system, only the old one with new mobo and ram (and lots of it in comparison I hope )
and hopefully 250W Enlight psu will be enough...I don't see any instability because of problems with it I guess...

[az]

I could buy the stuff for you, and send it to you - I'm not sure about customs - will we have to pay, can we label it as a present, or are there no problems anymore because of EU?

One other option would be to check if those shops ship to slovenia/poland.

AZ

[Nowhere]

thanks az, the problem is the stuff would probably go longer than the time needed to show up in stores here (very often such packages stuck somewhere...)

and one more question that came to my mind: do all this bords are non problematic with g400? (not one of the first models- works with AGPx4...so I guess it'll be all good)

[Technoid]

250 Watt is too low if you are planing to run a amd Cpu

[Nowhere]

I'm running it all the time.

[Nowhere]

So, ASRock K7S8XE is finally here (for approximately 62 €). And since I'll have plenty of time shortly perhaps there will be upgrade this time.
But of course I'm confused In the meantime I've found Asus A7S333 for 56 € and MSI 746F Ultra for 83 € - and I'm wondering if I really need the newest thing
I want stability definetely - I guess for this older boards are geberally better. Or perhaps the new ASRock is stable as it is just slight evolution?
What do you suggest?

And one more thing: do you know perhaps if the zalman 6000 alcu heatsink fits on ASRock and Asus? (I think it does on msi)
Zalman web board = no response :|

p.s. Maybe it'll be better to take the thing that consumes less power. PSU will be thankfull I guess ;P The problem is - which of this boards is less power hungry than the others?
(but seriously - with cpuburn running in the background system is stable)

[Chrono_Wanderer]

250W on K7s? wow you are a brave man

anyways... wow... asrock as come a long way! great price and its still an asus . hopefully to see more of them in stores tho...

[DentyCracker]

The K7S8X-E is exactly the same size and layout as the K7S8X. I have a Zalman 6000-Cu on my mobo

[Taz]

There is an Iwill board with the 748 chipset called the K7S3, it's not very common but may be available where you are

[Nowhere]

DentyCracker, so I guess it doesn't interfere with psu above it either? (though it's very close certainly )

[dZeus]

Nowhere, get a good (i.e. Fortron/etc) PSU, rated at _at least_ 300W if you want to run your AMD system properly. Running with a <300 Watt PSU is just begging for a PSU burnout which can take out many other components as well (ranging from just motherboard+cpu to everything hooked up to the PSU).