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If you have a normal 486 PC, and not some differently concocted PC like
those that use riser cards and such, you can replace your 486
motherboard with a Pentium motherboard.  It will have on board hard
drive controllers, serial/parallel ports, and floppy controllers, so if
your 486 has an expansion card to do these things, you will not need it
for the Pentium mobo.  If you are now using a VLB video card, you will
need to buy a PCI video card for the new mobo.  If your present memory
is in 30 pin simms, you will need new memory...either 72 pin simms or
168 pin dimms depending upon what the new mobo takes.  Make sure the
mobo comes with at least 512 k of L2 cache.  For starters, check out the
mobo info at http://sysdoc.pair.com

Alan



mmkc@ace-net.com.au wrote:
> 
> hello,  I'm going to upgrade my 486/DX to P133. Now, I know that I'll
> need to get a new CPU but do I need to get a new motherboard? And, I
> don't know what brand or kind it is. If so, could someone please suggest
> me a good brand? And, what other parts do I need to upgrade?
> 
> please reply via e-mail as well at...
> mmkc@ace-net.com.au
> 
> thanx
> 
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