Athlon 2600 & VIA KT600 chipset

Hi,

I have a MSI 6585-Sis 648 Max chipset mainboard and Celeron 1700. I am
considering buying MSI 7021-VIA KT600 chipset mainboard and Athlon
2600+. I generally use my pc for surfing and MS Office applications.
The upgrade would cost me about 200$.
Is it worth the money ?
Thanks...

Yes!

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James Jenkins
PC Technician
http://www.kimberleydawn.co.uk

"Remo" wrote in message
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Hi,

I have a MSI 6585-Sis 648 Max chipset mainboard and Celeron 1700. I am
considering buying MSI 7021-VIA KT600 chipset mainboard and Athlon
2600+. I generally use my pc for surfing and MS Office applications.
The upgrade would cost me about 200$.
Is it worth the money ?
Thanks...

On 26 Jan 2004 03:21:15 -0800, (Remo) wrote:

Hi,

I have a MSI 6585-Sis 648 Max chipset mainboard and Celeron 1700. I am
considering buying MSI 7021-VIA KT600 chipset mainboard and Athlon
2600+. I generally use my pc for surfing and MS Office applications.
The upgrade would cost me about 200$.
Is it worth the money ?
Thanks...

Surfing and office apps should be working fine on a Celeron 1.7, you
might try slimming down the OS services and background apps. On the
other hand all things being equal the upgrade should make a noticable
difference, is worth the $200.

On 26 Jan 2004 03:21:15 -0800, (Remo) wrote::

Hi,

I have a MSI 6585-Sis 648 Max chipset mainboard and Celeron 1700. I am
considering buying MSI 7021-VIA KT600 chipset mainboard and Athlon
2600+. I generally use my pc for surfing and MS Office applications.
The upgrade would cost me about 200$.
Is it worth the money ?
Thanks...

No, at least not in my opinion.

The upgrade will definitely be a step up, but I'd say that in terms of
processing power, you've got more than enough for an office/surfer PC.

Assuming that you don't use anything more strenuous on your computer,
you might be better served by adding more RAM to the computer. Start
with 512Megs as a minimum for system RAM. A sluggish PC running
office apps with that much processing power usually means that the
system's running low on RAM. You're trying to run too many
applications in too little RAM, and it's getting cramped.

This should give you a fairly noticeable performance boost, and this
upgrade should cost only half as much.
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Thanks,
MCheu