Good Stable Mobo for Duron Chip..Upgrading GF's comp...advice appreciated

[bozack]

Posted this on the public forum.....

hello all....

Just looking to get some upgrade advice on what I should do with my Girlfriends computer, and thought some here might be able to assist.

Currently she has a.....

Celeron 466
Abit BM6 Motherboard
256 PC 100 Ram
CD ROM
2 HD's
Voodoo 3 2000 Video
NIC
Diamond Supra Modem (Will go after the upgrade)
Antec 250w Powersupply

She is constantly getting out of memory errors and frequent lockups...I feel that this can be corrected by a full format and reinstall as she has loaded alot of garbage programs and such in the past two years that it has been on the same OS load...however I feel that while I am doing that I would like to give her a bit of an upgrade....

I would really like to just upgrade the Mobo/CPU and retain the rest of the components, however if that is not possible I am always open to suggestions.

And as always when it comes to computer stuff we are both on a budget, so I would like to get out of this for as little as possible.

I was looking at a Duron Chip for her on either an MSI/Abit/ Or Asus board...but as I have been out of it for a while I do not know what to look at.

Thanks in advance.

Sincerely,
MJ

 

[AkumaBao]

Well, just look in the motherboard threads, and see what problems or praises are told about certain mobos. Just do a little reserch. It's hard to say what kind of board would be good for you. It depends if you intend to OverClock, want a cheap price, build-in sound, built-in video, or even built-in RAID. There are so many to choose from that are very good boards. If you're looking at price, and don't want to OC, maybe you need a PC-Chips board. Or if you plan on spending for something with all or most of the features, you might want a ASUS, Epox, or Iwill. There's no reason to rush, so why not spend some time investigating.