K8V-X SE or K8U-X?

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Hello:

I'm still using Windows 98SE and will shortly be upgrading to AMD Sempron
64bit. Which is the better board for overclocking? From the documentation
of the K8V-X SE, it seems I can only increase the FSB and not change the
multiplies? As for the K8U-X, I couldn't find an english manual at
all...although, I could make out from the french manual that the board
supports 98SE.

TIA
 
NG User said:
Hello:

I'm still using Windows 98SE and will shortly be upgrading to AMD Sempron
64bit. Which is the better board for overclocking? From the documentation
of the K8V-X SE, it seems I can only increase the FSB and not change the
multiplies? As for the K8U-X, I couldn't find an english manual at
all...although, I could make out from the french manual that the board
supports 98SE.

TIA
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You probably don't want to hear this, but why build a new rig (especially
for overclocking) and then hobble it with an out of date, crappy OS? Any
reason you can't move up to XP or even linux?
 
You probably don't want to hear this, but why build a new rig (especially
for overclocking) and then hobble it with an out of date, crappy OS? Any
reason you can't move up to XP or even linux?
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I had a feeling someone was going to mention that. Personally, I'm not sure
what people have against Win98SE....it does everything I need it to do.

I actually have another system which I use for video editing....it's running
an AMD 2500+ Barton Mobile @ 2.4Ghz. Also running Win98SE on it.

I have no complaints about Win98SE and see no reason to change as of yet.
 
NG User said:
I had a feeling someone was going to mention that. Personally, I'm not sure
what people have against Win98SE....it does everything I need it to do.

I actually have another system which I use for video editing....it's running
an AMD 2500+ Barton Mobile @ 2.4Ghz. Also running Win98SE on it.

I have no complaints about Win98SE and see no reason to change as of yet.
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It's not so much that I (or others) have anything against it; it's just that
technologically Win 98 is waaaaaay behind Win2k or XP. Memory and disk
usage, security, driver and hardware support, the reasons go on and on. It
just seems a mismatch between your new hardware and OS.
 
Dale Brisket said:
It's not so much that I (or others) have anything against it; it's just that
technologically Win 98 is waaaaaay behind Win2k or XP. Memory and disk
usage, security, driver and hardware support, the reasons go on and on. It
just seems a mismatch between your new hardware and OS.
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You may feel that you need all of these new features, but I personally have
yet to come across any software or hardware that I need which does not
support Windows98SE. As for security, Microsoft is still releasing critical
updates for SE...also, I have a router with a hardware firewall, a software
firewall, up to date virus checker as well as recommended network and
registry settings to make SE a fairly secure OS.

I think I'll keep using SE until XP64 is pretty much standard.
 
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