[techtalk] Re: Upgrade options

  • From: Andrew Davidson <andrew@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: techtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 19:05:16 +0000

Paul Ferguson wrote: 

Hiya, been out of the upgrade loop for a bit and now have been
asked to upgrade a PC for a colleague. It`s currently running this:

Athlon XP Palomino 1700, Gigabyte GA7VKLMS board, 128Meg SDRAM 133
(rest of the kit not important)

All he really wants is to have it beefed up so that it`ll run XP at a reasonable speed. So, I guess mobo, CPU and 512 Meg of RAM would do him
Any suggestions for a mobo+CPU combination at the budget end of the market please ? 

I just upgraded my machine.  Well, more like replaced ailing parts.

£100 for a A64-3000, £30 for a used DFI Lanparty nF3-250 board off EBay, and reused my Mushkin PC3200 and FX5900XT.

Quite a bit quicker than the P4 it replaced, and I havn't even had a chance to overclock yet. :)

Andrew


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