Re: [H] upgrade suggestion for a friend

2006-11-27 Thread Veech
Thanks guys, let me research these options. - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Hardware List" Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [H] upgrade suggestion for a friend You might also consider an 865g motherboard which would supp

Re: [H] upgrade suggestion for a friend

2006-11-27 Thread tmservo
that via board CW Sent via BlackBerry from Cingular Wireless -Original Message- From: Harry McGregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:20:19 To:The Hardware List Subject: Re: [H] upgrade suggestion for a friend Hi, This board is Socket 754, and can't do Du

Re: [H] upgrade suggestion for a friend

2006-11-27 Thread Harry McGregor
Hi, This board is Socket 754, and can't do Dual Core (maybe a mobile dual core, but I doubt the bios would like it). You can either go S939 or AM2, 939 he can keep his 1GB of current memory, AM2 he would need new memory. Does he currently have a video card, or is he using the onboard video. Wou

[H] upgrade suggestion for a friend

2006-11-27 Thread Veech
A friend of mine has a Sempron 2800 on a Gigabyte K8 Triton GA-K8VM800M with 2 x 512MB sticks of generic RAM. He is looking to upgrade, and would like dual processor muscle. Can this mobo support dual-proc? If not, what CPU/Board/RAM config would give great bang for the buck for a dual proces