Right now I'm considering two choices for upgrades. I'm running on an Abit BH6 v1.1 with a P3-600E OC'd to 750MHz with 384MB PC133. The two DIMMs are Crucial PC133 256MB CL2, and Kingston PC133 128MB CL3.
First choice: $230
~$140 AMD TBird 1GHz AXIA and OC to 1.4GHz
~$150 Decent AMD760-based (?) motherboard
~$140 2x Crucial PC2100 256MB DDR RAM
Total comes out to be $430. After I sell my old CPU, motherboard, and RAM, I expect to pay about
$230.
Second choice: $130
~$80 Second P3-600E OC'd to 750MHz
~$120 Rioworks PDVIA-LS
After I sell off my old motherboard, SCSI and NIC cards, I expect to pay a total of about
$130.
What do you guys think? I plan to sell the stuff on ePay and I think I can get those prices. As you can see the two choices differ a lot in price. I'm primarily concerned about the performance of 2xP3-750 vs 1x Tbird 1.4GHz. I do a LOT of multi-tasking in W2K... I'd like to be able to play a DivX rip and still be able to browse online and do various things without having the system slow down.
First choice: $230
~$140 AMD TBird 1GHz AXIA and OC to 1.4GHz
~$150 Decent AMD760-based (?) motherboard
~$140 2x Crucial PC2100 256MB DDR RAM
Total comes out to be $430. After I sell my old CPU, motherboard, and RAM, I expect to pay about
$230.
Second choice: $130
~$80 Second P3-600E OC'd to 750MHz
~$120 Rioworks PDVIA-LS
After I sell off my old motherboard, SCSI and NIC cards, I expect to pay a total of about
$130.
What do you guys think? I plan to sell the stuff on ePay and I think I can get those prices. As you can see the two choices differ a lot in price. I'm primarily concerned about the performance of 2xP3-750 vs 1x Tbird 1.4GHz. I do a LOT of multi-tasking in W2K... I'd like to be able to play a DivX rip and still be able to browse online and do various things without having the system slow down.
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