List of required AMD patches?

[Guest]

Hi all AMD users,

This is the proposed system.

ASUS A7V
Athlon B 1.2 Gig
128 Meg RAM
IBM Deskstar 7200 RPM 30 GIG
Sound Blaster Live Value
GeForce MX
300 watt power supply
LG DVD ROM
SONY CD RW 32 8 4

Can someone please list down the required patches and latest bios I will neeed for all the devices I have listed above so that this system will kick Intel's ass in terms of stability and speed.

Cheers
Mick

 

[Lowlypawn]

You can’t expect us to do all the work for u?

I will give u this much info.

Bios 1005c (use AFLASH.EXE in DOS)
<A HREF="http://www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/bios_socka.html#a7v" target="_new">http://www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/bios_socka.html#a7v</A>

Promise ultra 100 drivers
<A HREF="http://www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/driver_ide.html#ata100" target="_new">http://www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/driver_ide.html#ata100</A>

Via’s 4 in 1
<A HREF="http://www.via.com.tw/drivers/index.htm" target="_new">http://www.via.com.tw/drivers/index.htm</A>

Detonator3 drivers for MX and others
<A HREF="http://www.nvidia.com/products.nsf/htmlmedia/detonator3.html" target="_new">http://www.nvidia.com/products.nsf/htmlmedia/detonator3.html</A>


Your on your own for the rest.

Good luck & Cya

 

[Guest]

A Geforce 2MX along with a T.bird-b 1,2Ghz.
IS NOT a good idea.
According to the benchmarks the Geforce2 MX (NV11) is a bottleneck for any Atlhon higher than 900Mhz!!.
So you're 1,2 Ghz atlhon is only runnig at 900Mhz in #D apliccations.

Don feel bad, Shits happen.
- Good boys go to heaven

 

[Guest]

Really, I've building a system based on the AV7133 with a 1GHz T-Bird C with 256PC133, UATA/100 Hard Drive, and a MX. Would a Radeon 32DDR do any better cause all I can afford is a MX for $100.00 thanks The only reason I'm getting a 1GHz is so I can use a 266FSB without messing (yet) with the L1 bridges.

 

[Guest]

MMake sure you get the VIA 4-in-1 drivers and NVidia Detonator 3 at least.

~ I'm not AMD biased, I just think their chips are better. ~

 

[JoeHead]

Any video card is teh bottlenesk with any decent CPU. As a matter of fact the GF3 will be a bottle neck also.

Yes the Radeon will be better than the MX. Make sure to get it Retail. OEM is slower.

Be ready for not so freindly drivers. I dropped my GF2 for the Radeon and love the picture. It may be slower but I play in 10x7 and still have no probs. I did play with the drivers to get them to work. I used the new drivers for DX8 and that is when it started to work (using Me and DX8). Ow I have teh 7089 drivers. This link can be great help:

<A HREF="http://rage3d.com/" target="_new">http://rage3d.com/</A>

Is it worth it? Well I havn't switched back yet and it's just sitting in a box (and no I will not sell it).

<b><font color=green><A HREF="http://www.seti.tomshardware.com/" target="_new">How fast is your PC</A></font color=green></b>

 

[Grizely1]

As a matter of fact the GF3 will be a bottle neck also.

? What are you talking about? The CPU will be the bottleneck in a GF3 system.

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"648kb is all the space anyone would ever need!"

Bill Gates, 1980s

 

[TheAntipop]

not necessarily griz, consider the fact that they didnt increase the core clock nor the ramdac over the gf2 ultra, the biggest improvement is in graphical quality and features, not speed. so in the near future with 1.3 gig athlons and 1.7 gig p4s the geforce 3 may not be as big of a bottleneck but it will certainly play a factor as most good 3d apps are more 3d accel-dependent than cpu-dependent

My name is Mud.

 

[Tempus]

Ah, but you are overlooking something, they did increase the speed. With the really cool light-speed memory architecture with the memory crossbar. Can't remember that well, but I think Tom said the pixel shader is faster too.

- I don't write Tom's Hardware Guide, I just preach it"

 

[Guest]

Speed isn't just about MHz, it's all about design. The P4 vs. the Athlon proves that speed isn't the be-all and end-all. GF3 is a superior archatecure, therefore is probably much faster at the same clock speed.

~ I'm not AMD biased, I just think their chips are better. ~

 

[Grizely1]

well of course but I am talking about "any decent CPU"; which means to me around 750MHz - 850MHz.

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"648kb is all the space anyone would ever need!"

Bill Gates, 1980s