need help upgrading old pc

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"justinnkim" <justinnkim@$cox.net> wrote in message
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> I have an old AMD athlon 700. On shuttle's site it states that the board
can
> handle a 1GHz chip. The board has a 100Mhz FSB when i go to pricewatch to
> preform a price check I see a 1GHz chip with a 200MHz FSB not 100MHz. I
> found a CPU on for $149 its an AMD - Athlon 1GHz with 3DNow! (K7)
1000MHz
> - OEM - 512k SlotA 512k. I just want to make sure that i buy the right
chip
> and install the fastest chip that i can. So I can extend the life of this
> system. Thanks Justin
>

from www.mwave.com, motherboard bundles:

MB-BA03057 -BA19906 -BA13301 -BA02606 - AMD ATHLON XP 2000+ 266MHZ OEM
BUNDLE W/ Details (BIOSTAR M7NCD-400; MWAVE COPPER PLATE FAN; MWAVE 512MB
DDR266; NO TESTING) $175.00 $175.00

note that includes processor, good quality mainboard and 512MB RAM


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Justin,

There is a Slot A 1000mHz unit over on eBay, $80.00.

JPS
"justinnkim" <justinnkim@$cox.net> wrote in message
news:7ekYc.196253$Oi.155720@fed1read04...
> I have an old AMD athlon 700. On shuttle's site it states that the board
can
> handle a 1GHz chip. The board has a 100Mhz FSB when i go to pricewatch to
> preform a price check I see a 1GHz chip with a 200MHz FSB not 100MHz. I
> found a CPU on for $149 its an AMD - Athlon 1GHz with 3DNow! (K7)
1000MHz
> - OEM - 512k SlotA 512k. I just want to make sure that i buy the right
chip
> and install the fastest chip that i can. So I can extend the life of this
> system. Thanks Justin
>
> * Chipset
> AMD-751 (Irongate, North Bridge)
> AMD-756 (South Bridge)
> * Slot A CPU Support
> AMD Athlon and Thunderbird (Slot A) with 500 ... 1000 MHz
> Automatic adjustment of the CPU Vcore-voltage
> Connetor for CPU- and AGP-fan onboard available.
> * Expansion Slots
> 1 x A.G.P. 66/133MHz (2X mode), 3,3V
> 5 x 32 Bit PCI (all busmasters)
> * Onboard IDE Controller
> 2-Channel Enhanced PCI IDE
> for up to 4 IDE devices
> supports UltraDMA/66
> with ATA-66-Kabel
> * Hardware monitoring
> for temperature, voltage and fan
> * More interfaces
> 1 x Floppy drive (up to 2,88 MB)
> 1 x Parallel (SSP/EPP/ECP)
> 2 x Serial (16550 compatible, Fifo)
> 1 x Infrared (SIR/CIR, IrDA-Adapter not included in delivery)
> 1 x PS/2-Mouse
> 1 x PS/2-Keyboard
> 1 x WOL (Wake on Lan)
> 4 x USB
> * Memory
> 3 x 168-Pin DIMM-socket
> for up to 768 MB memory SDRAM
> with 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 and 256 MB size
> * Power Management
> Power saving modes: Doze, Standby and Suspend
> ACPI (Advanced Configuration and Power Interface),
> On/Off-button with two functions: Suspend-mode / soft-off
> * BIOS
> Award v6.0PG PnP Green BIOS
> 2 MBit Flash EPROM
> * Form Factor
> 30,5 x 24,4 cm, ATX.
>
>

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Matt wrote:

> justinnkim wrote:
>
>> found a CPU on for $149 its an AMD - Athlon 1GHz with 3DNow! (K7)
>> 1000MHz - OEM - 512k SlotA 512k. I just want to make sure that i buy the
>> right chip and install the fastest chip that i can. So I can extend the
>> life of this system. Thanks Justin
>
> Buy a new nforce2 motherboard and a new Athlon XP 2500+ Barton for about
> $150.
what is Barton???

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> >
> > Buy a new nforce2 motherboard and a new Athlon XP 2500+ Barton for about
> > $150.
> what is Barton???

The codename for a certain series of microprocessor. -Dave