Save Dave

[imported_Zeke]

My roomate Dave has a dimension 8100 that he wants to upgrade. For those of you who dont understand the horror lets put it this way..socket 423, 1.3g p4 and 256 mb pc800*gag* I quickly decided it would probably be cheaper to buy a new mobo/processor and some DDR, considering the insane RDRAM prices adn the fact the those wierd 423 to 478 converters scare me. He mostly uses it for web browsing and some heavy-duty photoshop editing. Recommendations? cost is of prime importance....

 

[Markfw]

cost is of prime importance

And you will need a new case also. Dell case is proprietary. With budget in mind, how about the Frys $69 AMD motherboard/cpu combo, a stick of 512meg PC3200 Mushkin from newegg ($72 or something like that) and an Antec Sonata for $60 after mir (fry, if its still on)

 

[imported_Zeke]

pc3200 isnt supported by the 70 dollar mobo combo at outpost, but yeah sounds pretty nice

 

[imported_Zeke]

erm I hear a disturbing rumor that the geforce 2 agp wont work with newer mobo....anyone know what thats about?

 

[Kasper4christ]

depends on if its 4x or like 2x AGP video card...if its 4x, it should work on just about anything...i think...
but.. there is the bandwidth issue.. nothing is certain though..

 

[imported_Zeke]

yeah ok I think it might be 2x....

 

[imported_Zeke]

everyone agreed that the aformentioned deal is the way to go? btw I tryng to convince him he needs 64 bit

 

[Chronoshock]

Had a similar system but a 1.9ghz p4 and 512 of pc800 (rest is pretty much the same, including gfx card). Made a completely new system heh. Nothing can be salvaged sadly.

 

[imported_Zeke]

funny thing is that when he bought it he got a p4 so he could upgrade