Upgrade to 64 bit for a couple hundred?

[Restorer]

I'm hoping to upgrade my Athlon XP box (the faster one in my sig) to A64 this summer. Can I do it for only a couple hundred dollars, without selling anything? Actually, I might want to sell my video card and upgrade that, and I've already ordered 512 MB PC 3200 RAM. Can I upgrade my motherboard and CPU cheaply?

 

[termin@tor]

Yeah, there's plenty of good cheap mother boards for the A64 and the processors themselves went down in price dramtically over the last few weeks. I did a lot of research on this because I purchased an A64 system last night.

How much exactly do you want to spend?

Here is a good combo:

CPU
http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-413&depa=1

Depends on how much cash you have. You can get the even cheaper 3000+. I recommend going with the 1MB L2 cache version (ClawHammer)

Mobo

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-152-043&depa=1

Chaintech put together a great mother board. This mobo shows that you don't have to sacrifice performance and overclockability because of price. It perfoms and overclocks on par with the other, more expensive motherboards.

 

[Restorer]

The exact amount I have to spend will depend mostly on how much I can get for all my SCSI stuff I'm selling soon. I'll probably have between $200 and $400 to spend.

 

[shard]

well...

a 3000+ is about 167
the EPoX EP-8KDA3J is 100
and OCZ EB PC3500 512mb is 166

all that is around 433, but i see that you already have new ram so i dont think that would be that neccessary

 

[alien dork]

its possible if you only want to upgrade the motherboard and the cpu.