Re: Is the MSI MS-6545 a board still worth bothering with?


"Elder" <carl.robson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There is an ebay auction for a case I want, and it comes with a MSI MS-
6545, a 2ghz P4 and 512meg of Rambus memory. I think I might stand a
fair chance of getting it.

Anyone know from experience what the fastest P4 CPU that will go in that
board is, websites just say "upto 2ghz and above".

Currently I have a Duron 1.3 with a Geforce MX2 so that processor would
be a major leap as it is.

With Rambus being so expensive, and AGP graphics cards being out of date
and limited now, do you reckon it would be worth maxing out the P4 and
memory with the best AGP card I can find (still a big upgrade and the
board is already there with the auction), or strip it out bay it for
what I can get and get a more modern AMD/Intel Dual core setup with DDR
ram and PCI-e slot?
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It'll support 400FSB CPUs up to a 2.8Ghz. And... before someone says they
never did a 400FSB 2.8Ghz, yes they did because I had one, Packard Bell used
loads in their machines.

Only AGP 4x so older cards only as you know but there are some cheap hard
hitters for their time still out there that will still cope with all but the
most modern games to a playable degree.


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