Project 620: Equipment List
Project 620 is made up of the following components:
Intel PIII-500 CPU
Abit BX6-2 Motherboard
In Win Q500 24" ATX Case With 250 Watts PS
128 Megs Microm PC-125 Ram
Delta 40X CD Rom
Seagate Medalist Pro 6.5 Gig 7200RPM Hard Drive
Diamond Viper V770 Ultra Video card
Sound Blaster Live Value
IDE internal Zip Drive
Fuji 3.5 Floppy Drive
Optiquest V775 17" monitor
Cambridge Soundworks Speakers
Microsoft Sidewinder Freestyle Pro Game Pad
Gravis GrIP Multiport Controllers
Total cost of equipment as of July 7th, 1999 is $1800
US. You can save yourself $199 by not going for such good computer speakers. I just happen
to love the sound of the Soundworks. You can save another $100 if you don't need a zip
drive.
Not much has change in the way of equipment since
Project 527. The only really new thing I added was a PIII-500, Viper V770 Ultra and a 100
Base network card. You will note that Project 620 doesn't have a modem. This is because
the system is part of a LAN and connects to the internet with the network card using
another host computer. See the "Sharing The Net" for more
details.
The choice of upgrading to a Viper 770 Ultra from the
Viper 550 is really a no brainer. I love the old Viper 550 and the new Viper 770 is just
like the old Viper, only faster. The TNT2 chip used in the V770 just makes this card
scream. And with a bit of work it runs flawlessly at 185Mhz core and 243Mhz memory!
The rest of the equipment has no problem working with
the 124Mhz bus of the Abit BX6-2 motherboard, which I just love. This is THE overclocker's
motherboard. When running on a 124Mhz bus, the PCI bus speed is set to 1/4. That means
that the PCI bus is running at 31Mhz, which is 2 Mhz slower than what it is suppose to
run. AGP speed when using the 124Mhz will be 83Mhz (2/3 or 124Mhz). This is quite a bit
higher than the 66Mhz that the AGP port is suppose to run. However the Viper V770 Ultra
has no problem working at that speed.
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