What to buy?

[Way Cool Jr.]

I am going to be upgrading my machine at the end of this month and not sure what I should get.

Right now I have an Abit KA7 Slot A MB, with an 800mhz Athlon. About a month ago, I purchased an additional 512MB for it.

Now I want a new MB and CPU and not sure if I should get a DDR motherboard and buy all new RAM, or just go with an SDRAM MB and use the RAM I have.

I am also wondering about RAID. Right now I have a 5400RPM 13GB drive. It still has plenty of space left on it and it works great. Should I sell it and get 2 7200RPM drives for RAID, or just stick with my 5400RPM drive?

I really want to stick with and AMD CPU. I would like to spend no more than $300 on both the MB and the CPU.

Any ideas or recommendations?

TIA

 

[Ime]

Well, I replaced my MSI-6167 back in May with an Iwill KK266 and did not have any complaints until recently when I broke the primary IDE header on it (OK, so I shouldn't chew gum and work on my computer at the same time).

The Iwill board OC's well if you are into that sort of thing. You can keep your SDRAM for it, too! You can get the Iwill KK266 and an Athlon 1.4ghz for $220 plus shipping at Newegg.com.