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Cheap Used Mobo/Ram/CPU Recommendation?

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avi4now

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Quick question: can anyone point me in the right direction? I have a generic crappy pentium-166 at home that I'd like to upgrade to something a bit faster with USB and AGP and stuff that I could eventually upgrade the rest of my components (hard drive and video card really), but I don't want to spend more than around $100 right now... can I find a decent 400 or 500 mhz used mobo with CPU and Ram (128 or more) for that money, that I could either use my current crappy PCI video card with or would have integrated video and I could upgrade to a good card later?

Thanks for any help!
 
I bet you could come close to $100 (yeah, a lil over) with an ECS K7S5A ($57 @ NewEgg), a cheap Duron, and 128MB of RAM. And that would be one hell of an upgrade from a P166.

-SUO
 
Pricewatch.com - Great index site that you can use to look for low prices

Like SUOrangeman said, get a:

ECS K7S5A (lowest price is $50 according to Pricewatch)
Duron 650mhz ($32 lowest price via PW)
128mb PC133 Ram ($23 according to Crucial.com)
 
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