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Mark Cohen: (Like the guy on Rent?)

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: I'm looking for both cost effectiveness and upgradeability.  Can
anyone
: recommend a good motherboard and CPU combination (AMD or Intel, I'm
not
: fussy).  Obviously I'd like to keep as much of the existing components
as
: possible, but I'm not averse to replacing the memory if needed.

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First and foremost, I would suggest that whatever processor you choose,
you purchase a motherboard from a well respected company.  Asus, Abit,
MSI, Tyan, AOpen, and Gigabyte are all pretty well respected and used by
many people in this newsgroup, so you're likely to get help with
whatever board you get.  I personally prefer the first two on that
aforementioned list, but that's only because I've had the most
experience with their boards.

Secondly, you have a lot of choices in this matter.  If you want to keep
your memory, a 100 MHz FSB PIII may be a good choice for you.  I had a
friend who upgraded his 350 PII to an 800 MHz PIII (with the 100 MHz
bus...be careful, there are some 800 processors that use the 133 bus)
and the difference is like night and day.  MWave (www.mwave.com) has an
800 or an 850 PIII and an ASUS P3V4X motherboard for $327 (they're the
same price...why would you buy the 800?).  I'm currently using this
motherboard, and find it to be stable and full-featured.

However, you could get an AMD Duron 850 and a comparable motherboard for
$100 less, and still be able to use your memory (I think, if I am wrong,
I'm sure somebody will correct me.  I've done mostly Intel systems.).
This appears to be the most cost effective method, as a Duron 850 will
be AT LEAST as fast as a PIII 800, if not faster.

Whatever you do, good luck!

Jim

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"Mark Cohen" <adgn34@uk.uumail.com> wrote in message
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: Here's the background:
:
: Current system:
:     Chaintech 6BTM motherboard (slot 1)
:     128M PC100 DIMM
:     Pentium II 350
:     Voodoo 3/3000
:     Soundbalster live
:     ISA Modem
:     UDMA33 10.8G HD
:     Ancient 8x CD drive
:
: The motherboard won't take coppermine processors, and the price of
: non-coppermine PIIIs is crazy.  The solution seems to be to replace
the
: motherboard and processor in one go.
:
: I'm looking for both cost effectiveness and upgrability.  Can anyone
: recommend a good motherboard and CPU combination (AMD or Intel, I'm
not
: fussy).  Obviously I'd like to keep as much of the existing components
as
: possible, but I'm not averse to replacing the memory if needed.
:
: On another front, once the new mobo and cpu are in place, would I need
to
: reinstall windows,  if I don't need to, then is it advisable to?
:
: Thanks for any help,
:
: Mark Cohen
:
: