Upgrade options help

[Moohooya]

I currently have an old K6II 266 Oc'd to 300 with 192MB of PC100 SDRAM. Time to make that kids PC I've been promising for years and upgrade.

What are my choices? I have a fiarly tight budget and would like to do the whole thing for around $200. I've pretty well decided upon a Duron. Since the 650 is available for $50, I figured that would be a good place to start and then in a year or two get the 2Gig version. My questions are:

If I keep my memory for now but add a new stick in 6 months or so, what type of memory would I want then? How will that work with my existing PC100? I'd hate to hand all 192MB over to the kids.

I think I want Socket A, is this correct? When I upgrade my processor in a year, will a Thunderbird or whatever is out then fit?

Which mobo do I want? I am going to overlclock, I want that little Duron 650 running up as high as I can get it. In a year I'll also want to overlock.

Finally, I can wait a few months until I upgrade. What would a mobo based on the new AMD chipset buy me if I wait?

Thanks,

Moohoo

 

[paulip88]

If you want to use the PC100 memory, you will want DIMM slots.
If you want to upgrade later, you want a DDR board.

However, rumor has it that there will be a board that will boast both DIMM and DDR-SDRAM slots. (from a post by Henry Kuo). I would image that the DIMM slots on this board will support both PC100 and PC133, since supposedly the board can run at a 100MHz FSB. (someone smack me if I'm wrong)

However, the details on OC features of this board is unknown. Heck, the existence of the board isn't even known.

Either way, any such board probably will not be available in quantity until at least early next year.

If you want an Xmas gift for the kids, I'd go with an ABit KT7, Asus A7V, or MSI K7T Pro2. All of these boards support PC100 memory and they are all OCable. Only thing is if you would like to upgrade later to anything faster than 1.2GHz, you will need to buy a new board.

 

[Moohooya]

Thanks for the info. I'll check out those three boards you mentioned, and keepmy eyes open for the new board.

Moohoo