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Article #1048Re: Need upgrade advice...
From: Michael A Clifford
Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 00:00
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Is a quid a pound? What is the exchange ratio between pounds and $ these days? -Michael Daniel J Thomas (DanTheMan@airbus.demon.co.uk) wrote: : Ok, here's my 10 pence worth... : I bought an AST 6050d thinking I could upgrade it from 50Mhz 486 to : pentium. I bought it second hand withouth thinking about any possible : problems that would arise from upgrading. Well, it was 500 quid down : the drain. I had the computer for 1 month and got pissed with the : speed. So I called AST about a m/b upgrade - 340ukp for a pentium m/b : that would fit the case!!! What a rip off. What I did was to buy a new : case and motherboard and also a K5-100 and a a graphics card. It all : cost about 230 quid but it was the best money ever spent. If I was you : I'd get a new case and m/b. This way you will always be able to upgrade : the computer without too much expense. : Dan : -- : Daniel J Thomas
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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: f5f89,74a6fbec5ff0c2bc X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public X-Google-Thread: f5142,74a6fbec5ff0c2bc X-Google-Attributes: gidf5142,public From: macliffo@garlic.engr.ucdavis.edu (Michael A Clifford) Subject: Re: Need upgrade advice... Date: 1997/05/25 Message-ID: <5m9uqj$5k$1@mark.ucdavis.edu> X-Deja-AN: 243933348 Distribution: world References: <5lssei$ug@huron.eel.ufl.edu> <5m4cf5$91$1@titan.globalserve.net> <5WdC7BAFr3hzEwqG@airbus.demon.co.uk> 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