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- Apr 25, 2003
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- Huntington Beach, CA
Ok, my crappy Soyo Dragon Lite P4 mobo finally crapped out...cheap piece o' crap. Anyway, now I'm deciding what I should buy.
I could either take my P4 2.4B 533 and get a decent Canterwood board, and upgrade to a 2.4c in the future, or I could just sell off the P4 2.4 and get some sort of AMD solution. Would getting an Athlon XP 1700+ (I hear those are good budget overclockers) and a decent motherboard yield me similar results to what I previously had? I was actually quite fine just running the 2.4 stock, so I don't really need anything faster ATM.
Or, what if I got a dual MB and 2 1700+'s? Anything specific I should look for, motherboard and cpu wise?
Just weighing the alternatives. I don't want to spend more than about $300 now, but in a few weeks I'm going to have some extra money, at which time I'm going to be buying new ram (love my mushkin basic DDR333 2.5 :\ ), and prolly a Radeon 9800 256mb, so I may also be able to upgrade processors in the future. Might also get a watercooling kit
Anyway, thanks!
I could either take my P4 2.4B 533 and get a decent Canterwood board, and upgrade to a 2.4c in the future, or I could just sell off the P4 2.4 and get some sort of AMD solution. Would getting an Athlon XP 1700+ (I hear those are good budget overclockers) and a decent motherboard yield me similar results to what I previously had? I was actually quite fine just running the 2.4 stock, so I don't really need anything faster ATM.
Or, what if I got a dual MB and 2 1700+'s? Anything specific I should look for, motherboard and cpu wise?
Just weighing the alternatives. I don't want to spend more than about $300 now, but in a few weeks I'm going to have some extra money, at which time I'm going to be buying new ram (love my mushkin basic DDR333 2.5 :\ ), and prolly a Radeon 9800 256mb, so I may also be able to upgrade processors in the future. Might also get a watercooling kit
Anyway, thanks!