Bang for the buck

[Despy]

Okay, looking to upgrade and I thought I'd ask the experts.

Currently I have:

Athlon 1600XP
MSI k266a (something like that, needs replaced w/ new cpu anyway)
384MB of DDR 2100
nVidia 5900XT

As you can see, decent video card but the CPU/MB is getting a little long in the tooth. I would like to upgrade the CPU/MB to get the most bang for the buck. I want to spend in the neighborhood of $100 for CPU and less than that for the motherboard.

I've heard rumblings that the athlon XP mobile processors are great overclockers (and still unlocked) when combined with the abit nfs-7 board. Comments?

Depsy

 

[Blain]

You heard right... buy it!

 

[Gamingphreek]

Get an Athlon XP-m 2400+ and an NF7-S, DFI Infinity series board, or an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe, any of those will work well.

-Kevin

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
Get an Athlon XP-m 2400+ and an NF7-S, DFI Infinity series board, or an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe, any of those will work well.

-Kevin

seems like a good suggestion
or a Shuttle AN35

 

[Gamingphreek]

True but only if youron a budget. They are great OCers but lack features.

-Kevin

 

[Despy]

Specifically what features would be lacking?

I don't need built in LAN or Sound. I would like to have the ability to clock lock the PCI and AGP bus.

Despy