Introduction

Well, welcome to my latest project.  As you go through life you need to contstantly challenge your self or you.....blah blah blah.... anyway, my goal was to make the greatest box possible at the time my last part was shipped for the cheapest possible price.  And I did it.  So heres the part where I plug www.pricewatch.com for the greatest prices on the net for parts, and www.hardocp.com and www.hardforum.com for some tech support by the best overclockers out there, plus a terrific way to waste an entire day away.  Alright, so the box is built, the specs are below, along with the original bench tests and the overclocked bench tests.  All in all it worked pretty good, a 220MHz overclock isn't bad but I can't help but think that my mediocre RAM was the thing holding me back from 1.5GHz and beyond.  So if you want to see it go faster give me some PC150 (or higher please) RAM that runs CAS 2/2/2 :)

Components

Processor:        AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.2GHz 266MHz FSB

Heatsink:          Global Win FOP-38 with Delta 7000rpm 60mm fan

Motherboard:   ABIT KT7A-RAID (BIOS Rev: )

RAM:
Bank 0:            256MB PC133 CAS 2/2/2
Bank 1:            256MB PC133 CAS 2/2/2
Bank 3:            128MB PC133 CAS 2/2/3

Video:              ATI Radeon AIW 32MB

Storage:           Western Digital 20GB 5400rpm (boot)
                        Maxtor 80GB 5400rpm (storage)

Drives:              Toshiba SD-M1502 DVD-ROM DRIVE 16X/48X
                        Yamaha CRW2100EZ CD-RW 16x10x40
                         Iomega 100mb IDE zip drive
                        Standard 1.44mb 3.5" Floppy

Sound:              Creative Soundblaster PCI128
                         Black Altec Lansing ACS54X 5 Piece 3D Gaming Speaker System with Subwoofer

Network:           Intel 10/100 Pro

Case:                Antec SX1030B (evil Black)
PS:                   Stock Antec 300 Watt SmartPower
Fans:                 4x 80mm Antec Case Fans (2 intake front, 2 exhaust rear)

Monitor:            17" Compaq .28 dp

Keyboard:         Black IBM standard enhanced 101 key

Mouse:              Microsoft Optical Intellimouse

OS:                   Windows 98SE (directx 8.0)

Pictures 

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Benchmarks

These are the Benchmarks when running un-overclocked (1.2GHz@1.2GHz)

Conclusion

Well heres the numbers right next to each other: