Re: [expert] Finally Upgrading, YAY! Slightly OT

2000-02-25 Thread Rial Juan
Well, since so many people seem to discourage the use of Athlon CPU's, here's my affordable alternative... Take a look at the specs for the Abit BP-6 mobo. It's a dual socket 370 (Celeron only) motherboard with a built in PCI ATA/66 channel on top of the standard ATA/33 one (meaning you can

Re: [expert] Finally Upgrading, YAY! Slightly OT

2000-02-25 Thread Civileme
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, you wrote: Well, since so many people seem to discourage the use of Athlon CPU's, here's my affordable alternative... Take a look at the specs for the Abit BP-6 mobo. It's a dual socket 370 (Celeron only) motherboard with a built in PCI ATA/66 channel on top of the

[expert] Finally Upgrading, YAY! Slightly OT

2000-02-24 Thread John Connell
Hi gang, Am finally in the position to upgrade my system. I am going to buy an AMD K-7 550 Athlon, two 64MB DIMMS, and I also want to buy a new motherboard. That is what I am unsure of. Do any of you good people have any positive suggestions for a MB that will be compatible with the K-7?

Re: [expert] Finally Upgrading, YAY! Slightly OT

2000-02-24 Thread Guillermo Belli
Go to www.tomshardware.com there you'll find the info you need. El Thu, 24 Feb 2000, escribiste: Hi gang, Am finally in the position to upgrade my system. I am going to buy an AMD K-7 550 Athlon, two 64MB DIMMS, and I also want to buy a new motherboard. That is what I am unsure of. Do any

Re: [expert] Finally Upgrading, YAY! Slightly OT

2000-02-24 Thread Tom
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hi gang, Am finally in the position to upgrade my system. I am going to buy an AMD K-7 550 Athlon, two 64MB DIMMS, and I also want to buy a new motherboard. There aren't any good motherboard solutions for Athlons or CUmines. If you do get wild and

Re: [expert] Finally Upgrading, YAY! Slightly OT

2000-02-24 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
At 07:07 PM 2/24/00 , you wrote: Hi gang, Am finally in the position to upgrade my system. I am going to buy an AMD K-7 550 Athlon, two 64MB DIMMS, and I also want to buy a new motherboard. That is what I am unsure of. Do any of you good people have any positive suggestions for a MB that will

Re: [expert] Finally Upgrading, YAY! Slightly OT

2000-02-24 Thread ibi
Tom, I'm facing a similar situation. I decided against the Athalon for the same reasons listed. I was going for the k6-450 until I found out they have problems with the tri-level cache. I finally settled on the Tyan 1590s because of the 8 slots and upgradeablity; K6-500 and 160 P-100 RAM. I

Re: [expert] Finally Upgrading, YAY! Slightly OT

2000-02-24 Thread Dan Swartzendruber
At 11:03 PM 2/24/00 -0500, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: At 07:07 PM 2/24/00 , you wrote: Hi gang, Am finally in the position to upgrade my system. I am going to buy an AMD K-7 550 Athlon, two 64MB DIMMS, and I also want to buy a new motherboard. That is what I am unsure of. Do any of you good people