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need help upgrading the ole AMD
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bought this comptuer off ebay almost 5 years ago.. $200... have upgrade the ram and HD... (painted the case) but its just not cutting it anymore...
heres what its got: FIC-SD11 Motherboard AMD 550mghz 80gb running OS 120gb with media w/ cooling fan 512 SD RAM PCI sound card PCI firewire card PCI ethernet card PCI video card 350 amp power supply? basically i want to upgrade the motherboard and ram... maybe the video card... everything else should be ok... i want to keep the same case and such... can you guys help me out with what i need to buy..to make it compatible... i know how to put it together, but wanna make sure it goes together right... Attachment 74011 Attachment 74012 Attachment 74013 Attachment 74014 Attachment 74015 Attachment 74016 |
what u want is to stay 32bit, 64 isnt well supported yet so thats a no no
id reccomend an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ or similar (2800+, 2700+) with the barton core gigabyte motherboard, any model that supports socket a (i use the ga-7n400-L and have had no probs with it at all, id also reccomend the GA-7NNXP its a higher end model and performs better) ram: supertalent brand, they use high quality chips, are cheap in price and have a lifetime warranty, i bought mine from eagepc.com for next to nothing compared to other brands and have had no problems. video card: ATI Radeon 9800 series or better (i personally have a 9800XT 256mb and love it) power supply: NOTHING less than 500w, all that nice equip will burn out a smaller power supply my 2 cents ;) |
Originally Posted by DarkShadow
what u want is to stay 32bit, 64 isnt well supported yet so thats a no no
id reccomend an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ or similar (2800+, 2700+) with the barton core gigabyte motherboard, any model that supports socket a (i use the ga-7n400-L and have had no probs with it at all, id also reccomend the GA-7NNXP its a higher end model and performs better) ram: supertalent brand, they use high quality chips, are cheap in price and have a lifetime warranty, i bought mine from eagepc.com for next to nothing compared to other brands and have had no problems. video card: ATI Radeon 9800 series or better (i personally have a 9800XT 256mb and love it) power supply: NOTHING less than 500w, all that nice equip will burn out a smaller power supply my 2 cents ;) thanks so far though! |
Originally Posted by harofreak00
Originally Posted by DarkShadow
what u want is to stay 32bit, 64 isnt well supported yet so thats a no no
id reccomend an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ or similar (2800+, 2700+) with the barton core gigabyte motherboard, any model that supports socket a (i use the ga-7n400-L and have had no probs with it at all, id also reccomend the GA-7NNXP its a higher end model and performs better) ram: supertalent brand, they use high quality chips, are cheap in price and have a lifetime warranty, i bought mine from eagepc.com for next to nothing compared to other brands and have had no problems. video card: ATI Radeon 9800 series or better (i personally have a 9800XT 256mb and love it) power supply: NOTHING less than 500w, all that nice equip will burn out a smaller power supply my 2 cents ;) thanks so far though! Ass.... Ha....Anyways....Check out Motherboards.com......find a nice setup you like, and then search the pieces out on Ebay.... Or, do what I did, buy a cheap PC, and wipe the hard drive to get rid of all the shit and load XP pro. Then you can firewire your stuff onto the new machine. I like mine because I have the 10 flash drives up front and stuff like that. And you may wana move up to BTX boards....You'll have to get a different case....but you can always paint it blue too. |
cpu (3000+ i HIGHLY reccomend looking at pricewatch.com for it too) http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-AMD-Athlon-X...QQcmdZViewItem
MB: http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-GIGABYTE-GA-...QQcmdZViewItem (thats similar to what i have but i dont have SATA) Ram: http://eagepc.com/store.cfm?search=&...c=4096&p=10930 (best value) Vid card: (9600 xt) http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-ATI-RADEON-9...QQcmdZViewItem (9800Xt good price) http://cgi.ebay.com/ATI-Radeon-9800X...QQcmdZViewItem power supply: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817153020 (i take back what i said about 500 480 will do fine, and thermaltake is one of the best brands in computers) |
exactly what im looking for shadow..thanks much...
ill take more options, but this is what im looking for...and i shouldnt go to broke... the only that that suprised me was the price on the PS |
Originally Posted by harofreak00
exactly what im looking for shadow..thanks much...
ill take more options, but this is what im looking for...and i shouldnt go to broke... the only that that suprised me was the price on the PS |
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tigerdirect.com and newegg.com usually have decent deals on motherboard and processor packages.
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bought the processor and motherboard....
would this RAM be ok? http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-1GB-DDR400-P...QQcmdZViewItem i dont think i need a 256MB vid card, i dont even do any gaming... 128 should be fine right? |
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