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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 ... 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? |
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