Yet another newbie here needing advice from all you knowledgable people out there.
No General forum either....hope this fits here ok.
Anyway, i first purchased this computer back in 1995 i think it was, and since then its had just about every piece except the floppy drive upgraded/changed/replaced. My mainboard is running at its max CPU capacity (550 K6-2) meaning the upgrade needs to be a board too. But then evil struck, my graphics card (Geforce-2 MX), started making strange noises this week and eventually failed yesterday altogether, and a replacement/upgrade is going to cut my budget substantially.
Also a budget cut means i cant upgrade all components at once, id like to keep my old memory for a while so i need a backwards compatible board, and it needs to be able to run a SB Live without any problems a newbie like myself couldnt solve.
So,
My Needs - New Mainboard, New CPU, New graphics card,(Case/Fan ? ), Low cost.
Old components to carry over - SB Live, 2x256MB PC133 SDRAM Dimms(dont know any more than that, just genaric stuff [translate-junk ?] )
Im not looking for top of the line stuff, id be happy with around 850-900Mhz for the time being to suit my budget, preferably with a board that can go higher, but its not essential at the moment.
Oh yeah, and AMD ONLY ! (cough) =)
Thanks in advance
Athiron
P.S. incidentally i live in the UK, so any UK suppliers would be useful to mention to me
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Athiron on 08/23/01 10:28 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
No General forum either....hope this fits here ok.
Anyway, i first purchased this computer back in 1995 i think it was, and since then its had just about every piece except the floppy drive upgraded/changed/replaced. My mainboard is running at its max CPU capacity (550 K6-2) meaning the upgrade needs to be a board too. But then evil struck, my graphics card (Geforce-2 MX), started making strange noises this week and eventually failed yesterday altogether, and a replacement/upgrade is going to cut my budget substantially.
Also a budget cut means i cant upgrade all components at once, id like to keep my old memory for a while so i need a backwards compatible board, and it needs to be able to run a SB Live without any problems a newbie like myself couldnt solve.
So,
My Needs - New Mainboard, New CPU, New graphics card,(Case/Fan ? ), Low cost.
Old components to carry over - SB Live, 2x256MB PC133 SDRAM Dimms(dont know any more than that, just genaric stuff [translate-junk ?] )
Im not looking for top of the line stuff, id be happy with around 850-900Mhz for the time being to suit my budget, preferably with a board that can go higher, but its not essential at the moment.
Oh yeah, and AMD ONLY ! (cough) =)
Thanks in advance
Athiron
P.S. incidentally i live in the UK, so any UK suppliers would be useful to mention to me
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Athiron on 08/23/01 10:28 AM.</EM></FONT></P>
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram