time to upgrade, need recommendations

whatever · Post by **whatever** » Thu Jan 17, 2002 3:42 pm

hi all, haven't posted here in awhile, nice to be back.

well, its upgrade time for me and i'm out of the loop on this new tech thats out now.

I currently have a p3 running at 900, w/256 pc133 on an old abit be62. the bios is fried and cant be updated anymore, my burner is toast and I wanna run xp but it cant find the ide controller on the mobo, etc etc.

I've never messed with amd stuff before so im leaning more towards a p4 1.8+ w/DDR setup. but, im not opposed to getting an athlon setup.

I would like to know what you guys would recommend for a mobo and memory for both p4 and xp. would like something that is a good oc'er, dont need raid, onboard sound or lan.

I would appreciate any advice, thanks

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Thu Jan 17, 2002 3:56 pm

for amd:

shuttle ak35 (or ak37)
1700+ or 1800+
256 of corsair ddr333 ram

I havent looked in the intel camp in a while. price and proformance both lean toward amd so I have stuck there for now.

All ram is just going up and up in price right now. so that kind of suks but everythign else is pritty cheap.

Greg

whatever · Post by **whatever** » Thu Jan 17, 2002 4:25 pm

thanks for the reply

I noticed ram is more expensive now, what gives with that?