Re: Upgrade the motherboard?

On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:03:44 -0000, Mad Ad wrote:

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I've got a tower PC and I like the case. I'm wondering whether I can
just
change the motherboard.

http://global.msi.eu/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&prod_no=332#

The original board is MSI 6119. Pentium II at 350Mhz. Bought 1998.

Speed will only go up to 700Mhz with this board.

Dimensions: 30.0 cm(L) x 18.6 cm(W) ATX Form Factor

USB sockets at back. (I've got a special front part that allows
backward-facing USB and audio to be made available from the PC front).

Is it easy to just get another board and put it in the tower?

I'd be wanting a second-hand board I think. Speed, I don't know,
about 1.5Ghz I suppose. That's 6 times as fast as my current
board. Not sure what the difference would be, applications
run 6 times quicker I guess.

One of the greates inventions over recent years was not so much raw
processor frequency increases but the introduction of dual-cores. The
low-spec dual cores are not too expensive anymore and well worth the few
extra bucks. I would not go down the road of overpriced used single core
Pentium IVs, nor indeed the equivalent AMD proccies of 3 or 4 years ago.
A good low budget dual core for non gamers would be a Celeron E1200 or
E1400 combined with a basic socket 775 board with integrated sound and
graphics. If you want to go down the AMD route, the Athlon X2 4850e is a
decent CPU with very low power consumption, or if you want to spend less, a
Athlon X2 4400+. Combine this with a board with AMD780G chipset and you
have machine that can well cope with 3D apps like Google Earth.


My two HDD's are IDE.


Bear in mind that many modern motherboards only have one PATA port, so
maximum two drives attachable. Exceptions for Intel socket 775 are the
Asrock 4CoreDual-SATA2 R2.0 or the MSI P6N SLI V2 and for AM2+ the MSI K9N2
SLI Platinum.

If I were you, I would stick one of your current IDE harddrive in an
external enclosure and keep the other one as an internal hd plus the dvd
writer connected to one IDE port on the new board.

Have you considered, which OS you will use? That is a cost factor to
consider as well. If you do not intend to use Linux, it might well be
cheaper to get a complete PC set from the likes of Dell, compared to buying
an XP or Vista.

Andreas
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