Upgrading for Xmas is this Compatible?

[foxhound53]

Ok for Xmas I plan on upgrading my computer from a Pentium II 450 to a Athlon Thunderbird 1Ghz. I am also going to get a GeForce 2 Ultra to replace by Diamond Viper 550. I was told on another MB to get a Asus K7(?) motherboard. I recently read that a guy was having problems running games ( http://207.250.65.179/ubb/Forum17/HTML/002530.html )I don't want to have conflict in my new system. Oh and by the way I have 128 megs of ram. Is that enough? Cause I am going to buy a Western Digital 30 gig HD but if I need more ram I can buy that and wait on the new HD. So I gues my question is will I have the same problems, should I get a Pentium 3, what do I do? Thanks for your advice

 

[Shu8]

you're basically building a new computer...check out my sig below and those are my recommendations. for mobo [msi k7t pro2A]. don't get western digital hd. get ibm, i got mine for 130 at buy.com using 30 dollar coupon. 128megs of ram should be enough. but if you have extra cash on hand [100 bucks]...go buy 128mb.

 

[Ulysses]

Which motherboard do you have now, and which operating system are you using? If you have a BX type board then you may be able to save the cost of a new board by just getting a P3 CPU. If you are using Win 98 then 128 MB of RAM is OK, but 256 MB would be nicer. With Win 2K you definitely need 256 MB - see this.

P.S.
Shu's recommendation looks good to me.

 

[foxhound53]

Guys I am not good with harware so could you tell me how to find my motherboard and what type of ram I have? I looked in control panel system but I dont know where to go in there.Thanks for the quick replies.

 

[erub]

is this a home or small store built system, or one from a major OEM (HP, Dell, Compaq, etc?) If its a small store built system, they should have given you the motherboard manual..

 

[foxhound53]

It says Compaq on the case

 

[Moonbender]

About the RAM issue - buy a GeForce2 GTS instead of an Ultra and invest the heap of money you save that way into 256 megs of RAM, plus some gimmicks (a new mouse, good headphones or something).

 

[cyclistca]

256 for Windows 2000 bahahahaha. Unless your doing heavy graphics stuff 128 is fine. I do web development on a laptop that has 128 MB and Windoze 2000. No problems so far.

 

[miniMUNCH]

And don't forget good cash for a 19" monitor and good speakers (like Klipsch V2's). A that speed and beauty will be wasted on a small screen and bad speakers.

 

[KouklatheCat]

I am running an Asus A7V (slot A) board with a 700 T Bird. The A7V is the slot A version of the K7V (i think that is the model number). I only have 128mb of memory. All works good with that board, win2000 and 128 Mb.

 

[Howard]

cyclistca

256MB on Windows 2000 is recommended. It's a memory hog. Even if it weren't for that, combined with the ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1 tag, you'll barely have any hard drive swapping.