Upgrade of Current System

[2fast]

Hi all,
I'm currently considering upgrading.
Here are my system specs.
ASUS A7A266 mobo
512 Meg DDR ram
AMD Athlon 1 GHZ overclocked 1.333 GHZ
NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra 64 meg video
40 Gig HD 7200 RPM

System was very fast when first built approx. 3 years ago but now seems slow and sluggish. I have never reformatted the Hard Drive and the system has been very stable.
With bus speeds approaching and exceeding 400MHZ (Mine is 266MHZ)I wondered if it wouldn't be better to rebuild rather than upgrade.
Any and all Opinions greatly appreciated.

If it ain't broke don't fix it

 

[pIII_Man]

you could just get a new gpu and an athlon xp 2100


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[Spitfire_x86]

Get an Athlon XP 2400+ or 2600+ (266 MHz FSB) and upgrade your graphics card.


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[pIII_Man]

i am pretty sure the 2600 has 333mhz fsb...


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[Prof133]

They're kind of hard to find but there's one available at <A HREF="http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=120724" target="_new">MonarchComputer</A>.

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[pIII_Man]

wow thats crazy...i feel dumb...i have never heard of one *sobs*

Were all the tbred A 2600's like that...cause the picture is showing a tbred a...


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[Prof133]

At 2133 MHz they would need TBred-B. AFAIK, all Socket A Athlon XPs 2400+ and above are TBred-B or Barton.

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[pIII_Man]

duh!

I knew that!

ya tbred a's cant even hit 2ghz with lotsa voltage...


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[HardWareBoss]

They need tbird C. Oh ya ford axed the tbird.

 

[Flinx]

That graphics card is definitely a big "dog" in your system.
Upgrade that and see how things run.


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