Upgrade advice needed...

Aw, I don't know about that. I have three systems with P3 850mhz IWill
sloket, 512mb ECC memory each- w/ Win 98se. The motherboard is Asus P2bf, in
all three. Two of the thee are purchases from EBay. Get a P3bf off of EBay
for a few bucks. You'd move all your peripherals and the hard drive and
Windows would be happy. Just remember what boards in what PCI slots.

"Mark_Venture" wrote in message
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Hi,

About two months ago, I upgraded my primary PC from my trusty old Abit
BX6r2 board with P3-700Mhz (100fsb), 512Meg(pc100) ram, etc.. To an
Asus P4PE/Lan/1394/Sata board with p4-2.66Ghz(533fsb) with
512Meg(pc2700) memory and I love it!!

But now, my secondary PC's mother board (p3-600(100fsb), 512meg(pc100)
memory) just died. Since I need to buy a mother board, and can not
find a decent priced SLOT1 P3 board that has a bios setting for "power
on after AC loss." I figure its time to upgrade it too.

My choices are to either...

1. upgrade the secondary machine with the same P4PE/p4-2.66/512 combo
and make it exactly like the primary machine,

or
2. move my P4PE/P4-2.66/512 into the secondary machine, and upgrade
the primary again...

I found the following approximate prices.... but I am not sure the
best "bang for the buck"

P4PE/P4-2.66Ghz(533FSB)/Crucial/Micron 512PC2700 for $388.
P4PE/P4-2.8Ghz(533FSB)/ Cricial/Micron 512PC2700 for $451.
P4P800 Deluxe/P4-2.6Ghz(800FSB)/Kingson HyperX 512PC3200 for $484.
P4P800 Deluxe/P4-2.8Ghz(800FSB)/Kingston HyperX 512PC3200 for $560.
(all prices did not include shipping)

On the primary machine I play some games, capture/edit video,
create/edit multi track audio, surf the web, email, word processing,
IM, etc...

The secondary machine is used for a couple of things... My answering
machine/fax machine (Talkworks pro with USR Sportster Voice modem),
FTP Server, its my network's file server, and is used to learn/play
with software (through my company I have access to MS products and
Betas, as well as IBM/Lotus stuff, so I am running a Domino R6 server
for Web/mail since we use Notes/Domino for work).

The $388 better fits my budget, but $451 and $484 are not too far out
of reach. I think $560 would be stretching money just a little
thinner than I'd like to, unless it would mean a major performance
difference (like greater than 10 or 15%)

So, what do you think?