Hey all!
I'm thinking about upgrading my system and I have a few questions:
1) Will a vanilla P2B (with updated BIOS, of course) take a PIII-800 or 850 with 100MHz FSB?
2) On the same P2B, I can't seem to find anywhere where it actually says that the AGP slot is V1.0 - I assume it is, but I keep secretly hoping that the BIOS upgrade gave me V2.0.
So, the answers to the above will help me decide the following, which I'd like to hear opinions on. Here's my system now:
P2B - PII-400 - 192M PC100
Viper550 - Sony 400PS - SBLive! value
Adaptec 2940UW - IBM UW SCSI 9M - Pioneer 12X SCSI DVD
HP 9600 SCSI 12/10/40 CDRW
So I'm thinking of upgrading, but I'm not sure whether to just buy a new CPU and/or video card for a minor upgrade, or junk the whole MB/CPU/RAM/Video for a bigger upgrade. I can afford the bigger upgrade, but that money could also take me somewhere sunny for a week - so I want opinions about bang for the buck:
Can I upgrade just the CPU and see a huge difference? Or alternately just the video card? Will a GF2 be wasted without getting a V2.0 AGP slot?
Thanks in advance...
I'm thinking about upgrading my system and I have a few questions:
1) Will a vanilla P2B (with updated BIOS, of course) take a PIII-800 or 850 with 100MHz FSB?
2) On the same P2B, I can't seem to find anywhere where it actually says that the AGP slot is V1.0 - I assume it is, but I keep secretly hoping that the BIOS upgrade gave me V2.0.
So, the answers to the above will help me decide the following, which I'd like to hear opinions on. Here's my system now:
P2B - PII-400 - 192M PC100
Viper550 - Sony 400PS - SBLive! value
Adaptec 2940UW - IBM UW SCSI 9M - Pioneer 12X SCSI DVD
HP 9600 SCSI 12/10/40 CDRW
So I'm thinking of upgrading, but I'm not sure whether to just buy a new CPU and/or video card for a minor upgrade, or junk the whole MB/CPU/RAM/Video for a bigger upgrade. I can afford the bigger upgrade, but that money could also take me somewhere sunny for a week - so I want opinions about bang for the buck:
Can I upgrade just the CPU and see a huge difference? Or alternately just the video card? Will a GF2 be wasted without getting a V2.0 AGP slot?
Thanks in advance...
