Hello! Been lurking here for about a week or so trying to answer my own questions, and have found lots of good info about what to expect with my upcoming install. Have a few questions still, and if anyone can offer some input that would be great!
First off: I'm an armchair overclocker, i've been building computers for about 10 years now so I am fairly aware of what I am doing. ( most of the time
)
Bought an Epox mobo because it was dirt cheap, and I have built plenty of epox based systems in years gone by, mostly back in the "duron age" of AMD proccessors. In the "xp era" of amd computing, all the systems I built were nforce2 chipsets and I have been very very pleased with them. So when I saw epox had an nforce3 chipset, and was super cheap, it was a slam dunk as to what to buy.
Parts from my current rig I would like to transfer over:
Corsair CMX512-3200C2 - 2 sticks
X800 XL Agp card
Antec 550w TruePower (its about 2 years old)
And of course various hd's and dvd/cd drives.
Anyway, on with the questions:
Is my
ram going to be decent to overclock this system? I havent built a single A64 system yet so the process will be new to me. I've read up on it so I have an idea of how it should work, but im getting mixed reviews on the web about real life experiances.
What about this powersupply? I believe it is suffecient for what i'll be doing here, but i'm not sure if it has the additional power connector that this motherboard requires. (and it
IS a requirement that it be connected, right?) Obviously i'll find out when I tear the system down but I figured I might as well ask.
Installing the OS: I'll be doing a clean install on my Segate 160 gig SATA drive.
-First of all, if I get a mobo with an older bios revision, will I need to flash the bios in order for the motherboard to recognize the Venice +3200 that i'll be putting in? (I hope not, that creates a whole new set of pains in the butt)
-Assuming I install windows 2k, will I need a floppy disk to install SATA drivers to get it to work? Or will win2k automatically detect it?
-Does this motherboard work with Win64?
Well thats all I've got for the moment. Thanks in advance!