Need reply from athlon/asus/pt5.1le user

Ok.... here is what I am looking at putting together Athlon 1.4ghz asus a7m266 mobo 3 generic 256m ddrmemory total 768 80 gig ide hard drive 7200 30 gig ide hard drive 7200 4 standard internal fans 1 windtunnel fan viper video card I will be moving from a p3 700mghz with 256 ram .... will I see drastic improvement? Also, is there an non-standard things I should do in setting up the pc before installing pt and the 001? Thanks!!!!

Yeah youll find a lot of improvement. I have the same board but with a 1G chip. Don't waste your money on so much ram. After 256Mg there really isn't any improvement on PT and so much ram might even slow down your machine.see previous posts on this issue.

Very Cool. I have been reading the posts and that is why I am venturing out "on the limb" with amd. I have heard horror story after horror story about conflicts with the ptle/oo1 set-up. Is there anything helpful you could tell me in the setup like somehing special I will have to do that it doesn't specify in the pt manuals? Thanks for the reassurance!!!!! Joey

Hi, Buy a Promise Ultra ATA 100 Controller for $45.00. You HAVE TO buy this. Onboard IDE controllers perform really bad. As Justin suggested, Put your Digi001 in PCI Slot 4 (4th from AGP) and hard set it to IRQ9 from BIOS. Put your Promise Controller in to PCI Slot 3 and Hardset it to IRQ5 from BIOS. Disable onboard IDE Controllers. Disable USB if you do not have any USB device. Set Plug and Play BIOS to "YES" in BIOS. Your system should work very very well this way. Mine does. Good Luck and stay Cool

Thanks Alot. I will order it tommorrow! I appreciate your help. My current system drives me nutz because it doesn't seem to have ANY CPU for just a couple of plugins. This system should rock from what I am hearing. Joey

Forgot the link to Micron's Ram: