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Article #71677Advice on upgrade
From: Phil Pearce
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 00:00
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I am using a 386 which is beginning to groan a little, and want to upgrade. I have seen that I can get a motherboard and a Pentium 75 Mhz chip, with the option of upgrading the chip later, within my budget. So far so good, but I notice that all the ones I see advertised appear to be Triton; I seem to remember reading newsgroup messages saying that people had trouble with Triton. What happened to AMI? I already have a tape drive and 2 hard drives, which I want to transfer across. I also want to add a CDROM. I would like if possible to use my existing 16 MB of 30 pin RAM. So, my questions are: 1. Are Triton boards OK? 2. Can I split the power supply yet again to add a CDROM? (I have already split it once to power my 2nd hard drive and my tape drive). 3. If I add a CDROM, does it have to be connected to my existing I/O card or do I change it or add a second one? 4. I would like a second parallel port anyway (I have 2 printers). Can I just add a second I/O card? 3. I have seen Watford Electronics advertising a SIMM converter which claims to convert 4 x 30 pin SIMMs to 1 x 72 pin SIMMs. Has anyone any knowledge of and/or advice about these? 4. I will have to buy a new tower case; will I have to worry about heat extraction and/or sinks, or will a new case with 230W PSU cope as is? 5. Any recommended reliable suppliers who won't rip me off? I would be grateful for any advice. TIA. -- Philip Pearce plp@projects.demon.co.uk PGP Public Key available
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,6524878fd31462b2,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public From: Phil Pearce <plp@projects.demon.co.uk> Subject: Advice on upgrade Date: 1995/11/15 Message-ID: <816457121snz@projects.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 119444140 x-nntp-posting-host: projects.demon.co.uk organization: None reply-to: plp@projects.demon.co.uk newsgroups: demon.tech.pc