- Joined
- Jan 15, 2003
- Location
- Dallas, TX
To all -
I hope this isn't especially ignorant, but even though I've been building PCs for years I admit all of the changes in memory, chipsets, sockets, slots, etc. in the last year make me fearful I'll miss something. Anyway, I'm cash strapped right now, but I need to upgrade my system. I currently have an Iwill KK266-R running a hacked performance BIOS, a 1GHz AXIA Athlon Socket A T-Bird @ 1400, 512MB of PC100/133 SDRAM, a Hercules 4500 64MB Prophet, and a Diamond MX 300 sound card. My on-board drives, all on different IDE connections, are a 60GB Deskstar, a 40GB Deskstar, a DVD+RW, and a CD-RW.
Of course I'd like to have new everything, but since I can't, I anticipate after this upgrade I would next focus on 64-bit CPU and serial ATA drives, so I am trying to boost my current performance and stretch out the time to the next one. So to minimize cost, I was thinking - get a CPU with a lot of upward mobility and a new video card (AGP will be here a while) and go with that. So, the video card would be a Radeon 9500 software modded to a 9700, and here is the scary part, the CPU is a 2100+ TBredB?
Socket A is Socket A, right? I believe that means it would fit, I have a pure-copper heatsink, and if I recall correctly, my BIOS will allow for a 166FSB with a 15x multiplier. If that works, I can survive until I can get better memory, a better motherboard and HDs, and I won't have to buy $100 bucks worth of IDE-serial ATA adapters. I really like having the IDE RAID connectors as individual channels, as even on this "old" box I can burn a DVD, run a P2P app, listen to a CD, and play a mid-range game simultanously. Anyway, thoughts on whether or not this would work are appreciated.
I hope this isn't especially ignorant, but even though I've been building PCs for years I admit all of the changes in memory, chipsets, sockets, slots, etc. in the last year make me fearful I'll miss something. Anyway, I'm cash strapped right now, but I need to upgrade my system. I currently have an Iwill KK266-R running a hacked performance BIOS, a 1GHz AXIA Athlon Socket A T-Bird @ 1400, 512MB of PC100/133 SDRAM, a Hercules 4500 64MB Prophet, and a Diamond MX 300 sound card. My on-board drives, all on different IDE connections, are a 60GB Deskstar, a 40GB Deskstar, a DVD+RW, and a CD-RW.
Of course I'd like to have new everything, but since I can't, I anticipate after this upgrade I would next focus on 64-bit CPU and serial ATA drives, so I am trying to boost my current performance and stretch out the time to the next one. So to minimize cost, I was thinking - get a CPU with a lot of upward mobility and a new video card (AGP will be here a while) and go with that. So, the video card would be a Radeon 9500 software modded to a 9700, and here is the scary part, the CPU is a 2100+ TBredB?
Socket A is Socket A, right? I believe that means it would fit, I have a pure-copper heatsink, and if I recall correctly, my BIOS will allow for a 166FSB with a 15x multiplier. If that works, I can survive until I can get better memory, a better motherboard and HDs, and I won't have to buy $100 bucks worth of IDE-serial ATA adapters. I really like having the IDE RAID connectors as individual channels, as even on this "old" box I can burn a DVD, run a P2P app, listen to a CD, and play a mid-range game simultanously. Anyway, thoughts on whether or not this would work are appreciated.
