Need help loooking for the best mobo to run xp1800 & upgra..

[pharoah]

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I have an extra Athlon XP1800 laying around and thought it would be a good
project to build a new system on.

The budget is approx $600-$700

I have a case, albeit a no name steal case. Its atx form factor, free and
has a 20gig drive in it that will become a backup drive. I have an extra 17"
monitor.

Criteria:

I'd like to combo the 1800 with a great mobo that will accept another
(faster) cpu in the future.
I want 1 gig of the fastest ram that will run on that board with this cpu.
I need a wireless keyboard and mouse combo.
I also want to buy a new cdrw drive and 80gb hd.

Thanks in advance for the suggestions.

 

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Pharoah wrote:
> I have an extra Athlon XP1800 laying around and thought it would be a
> good project to build a new system on.
>
> The budget is approx $600-$700
>
> I have a case, albeit a no name steal case. Its atx form factor, free
> and has a 20gig drive in it that will become a backup drive. I have
> an extra 17" monitor.
>
> Criteria:
>
> I'd like to combo the 1800 with a great mobo that will accept another
> (faster) cpu in the future.

Abit NF7-S

> I want 1 gig of the fastest ram that will run on that board with this
> cpu.

Corsair, OCZ PC3500.

I need a wireless keyboard and mouse combo.

Logitec Cordless Duo

> I also want to buy a new cdrw drive and 80gb hd.

Any of the Lite-On CD-RW/Combo drives; Western Digital 800JB

> Thanks in advance for the suggestions.

All the above can be viewed, purchased at:
www.newegg.com

 

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"Pharoah" <rljnospamplease1965@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> I have an extra Athlon XP1800 laying around and thought it would be a good
> project to build a new system on.
>
> The budget is approx $600-$700
>
> I have a case, albeit a no name steal case. Its atx form factor, free and
> has a 20gig drive in it that will become a backup drive. I have an extra
17"
> monitor.
>
> Criteria:
>
> I'd like to combo the 1800 with a great mobo that will accept another
> (faster) cpu in the future.

Just put together a system for my daughter using the ASrock K7S8XE+ (make
sure it's the "+" mainboard) and an AMD XP 1700+. Works great. It can take
3GB of RAM and use any of AMDs 266/333/400/FSB CPUs.

> I want 1 gig of the fastest ram that will run on that board with this cpu.

Using a stick of 512MB Crucial PC3200. HOwever it is running at 333/FSB to
match the XP 1700+. Good solid memory.

> I need a wireless keyboard and mouse combo.

The Logitech MX Duo looks like a good deal and I've heard not bad about it
except from gamers who don't like the heaviness of the mouse.

> I also want to buy a new cdrw drive and 80gb hd.

Get a Serial ATA. For the money Seagate and Maxtor make good ones. I
prefer Seagate in my systems.


>
> Thanks in advance for the suggestions.


Just my suggestions from personal experience.

Nystagmus


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