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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

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

thanks for the reply

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