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Article #1041Re: Need upgrade advice...
From: Michael Ng
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 00:00
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Packard Bell computers are not very friendy to motherboard upgrade from other vendor. AT least, for my PB 486DX. The metal case is not so standard. display card is built-in, controller is built-in Sajid Ahmed the peaceman (peaceman@capital.net) wrote: <deleted> : Instead of doing that, you would be better off getting : a new pentium board (~ $100) and a new pentium class chip. You : can pick up a AMD K5 100 chip for less than 100 bucks at most places. : This would give you the advantage of having a better motherboard (there : is a difference) a better upgradability options for the future. You may, : however, need to replace some of the other components like the video : card (if it's built in on the board) (~50 bucks) and/or case (~50 : bucks). : All the rest of the components you should be able to reuse. : Good luck. : Peaceman -- Michael (syng@engr.ucdavis.edu) +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | http://www.engr.ucdavis.edu/~syng/ | | <PGP public key: http://www.engr.ucdavis.edu/~syng/mike.pgp> | +--------------------------------------------------------------+
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,74a6fbec5ff0c2bc X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: f8e37,74a6fbec5ff0c2bc X-Google-Attributes: gidf8e37,public X-Google-Thread: 10816e,74a6fbec5ff0c2bc X-Google-Attributes: gid10816e,public X-Google-Thread: f5142,74a6fbec5ff0c2bc X-Google-Attributes: gidf5142,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,74a6fbec5ff0c2bc X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public From: syng@cheddar.engr.ucdavis.edu (Michael Ng) Subject: Re: Need upgrade advice... Date: 1997/05/21 Message-ID: <5lvh4h$bfa$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> X-Deja-AN: 243104599 References: <5lssei$ug@huron.eel.ufl.edu> <338330B7.7AA@capital.net> Followup-To: alt.comp.hardware,aus.computers.ibm-pc,biz.comp.hardware,ucd.comp.questions,uk.comp.misc Organization: College of Engineering - University of California - Davis Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,aus.computers.ibm-pc,biz.comp.hardware,ucd.comp.questions,uk.comp.misc