Whats the best OCing socket A board on the cheap?

[afireinside]

I have 4 AXPs here that no one seems to want to buy so why not throw some crunching rigs together :D I had to pull my 3000+ claw rig apart to get phantasy star online blue burst to work and its been consuming my life (40 hours in like 4 or 5 days) but I'm going to get a raptor, rebuilt the DFI/claw rig, and turn the chaintech into a dedicated cruncher.

Along with that I guess I'll add the AXPs. I need cheap boards capable of 220-230 fsb. I need some cheap video cards, hard dirives, and power supplies as well :p: Any recomendations? And are there any good socket A heatsinks left out there for cheap? (incase you havent cought on yet, my goal here is CHEAP) I don't care how loud they are as I'll be throwing them in my basement.

Thanks!

[KaptainBlaZzed]

I recentley purchased 2 refurbished ABIT AN7's from dumpinggoods.com (http://wwwldumpinggoods.com) for $50 each

Bouth came in origional boxes with everything included and they bouth had quality check stickers on them from ABIT.

I am running bouth of them at 225 FSB with no problems, 1 is a 24/7 cruncher and the other is my roommates computer.

They also have the GREAT option of "halt on NO errors" so my chrncher does not have a GFX card in it, i just neeeded to borrow one from another computer to set it up. :clap:

[afireinside]

No gfx sounds great. I'll look into this. Thanks!

[UCmajewski]

Masscool formely Speeze makes cheap all copper fan / heatsinks. Havent done LBM wrong! Those AN7's do seem like a good deal for 50. Any NF7 or AN7 should do the trick as far as OC's go. Also NF-7M might me a good investment since they are just plain vanilla NF-7's with intergrated video and they dont go wacky when you OC them! HD's shouldnt be much of a problem since a cheap 8 gig HD or lower is all you need. Probably someone selling those on ebay.

[ZX7891]

An NF7-M might be alright but there is the chance that the onboard video might go wacky while overclocking.