Well, first off, KR7A.. best of the Via KT266, but, Via, YUCK!
Get yourself a nice Nforce (asus 415 is nice)... first off, the Asus nforce overclocks pretty good, second off it is REALLY stable (and doesn't have the PCI, and Sound Blaster problems that via has). Also, the sound on the nforce is just unbelievable (especially if you use the coaxile spdif out). And unless you want more then 1 gb of ram, the 'ram problem' with the nforce wont really be a problem (2 sticks works good, 3 sticks gets you a bad score). on the other hand, with the dual bank memory, with 2 sticks you'll get some real nice memory scores.
As for the Tbird, that seems like a pretty good temp, considering its the second hottest athlon CPU made (atleast I think it is.. 1.4 being the hottest).
Oh, and I guess the case pics are just before anything was added in. Good choice on fans, I intend on going all L1As.
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