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Article #3242Replacing a mobo - h/w recommendations and do I need to reinstall?
From: Mark Cohen
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:59
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:59
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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
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