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"Leopard" <j_harrison@hotmail.com> wrote:

>I think that the best idea would be t oget a new Pentium  board with an AMD
>or Cyrix chip...theyre pretty cheap and will give much better performance
>and upgradeability in the long run..
>depending on your ram you may need to swap from 30 pin to 72pin---get 2 8mb
>edo's at least...
>you will probably need to get a new video card...PCI of course...it
>shouldnt cost too much either
>Jeremy


This is good advice - however the case will probably have to be
changed too - this is one of the problems with buying branded clones -
they tend to use non-standard slim-line cases and have weird
motherboard with riser cards. 

Seems to me you are looking at:
Case		40ukp for a decent one.
Motherboard	90ukp for something decent - don't go for a no name
brand - its false economy.
Processor	80ukp max, for a Cyrix / IBM P166+
Graphics Card	35ukp for a 2MB S3 virge based PCI card. or maybe, if
your old one is PCI, you can still use that.
You would need a bit of memory, as your 12MB won't transfer nicely
into a Pentium system where you must put in memory in matched pairs.

You'd be left with a very acceptable system that should go for some
time before the urge to upgrade hits again.

Total spend according to my reckoning (and based on UK prices not
including VAT) 245ukp + whatever the memory costs. You could put in an
upgrade processor, and that would cost you less than half of this
figure, but it wouldn't give anywhere near the improvement in
performance, nor would it leave you with much expansion potential.


Gareth Jones