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01-02-2001, 02:10 PM #1Web Hosting Master
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Can someone help me choose a motherboard .
I've got a budget of around £130 (Can swing to £150 if needed) the website is done in pounds so that should help.
http://www.cclcomputers.co.uk/acatalog/
It's to fit in this case - ATX Midi Tower H-01
Oh and a recommendation on cpu would be nice too .
Thanks for any help given .
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01-02-2001, 02:46 PM #2Web Hosting Master
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What's it for? Home PC, gaming station, server??
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01-02-2001, 02:55 PM #3Web Hosting Master
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Well intended for general use really at first. Just surfing the net, Might put paintshop or photoshop on it but nothing too fancy. If i need it for much more i'll upgrade at a later stage .. could call it a home PC.
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01-02-2001, 03:06 PM #4Web Hosting Master
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Celerons or Durons are pretty amazing in value. Fast and inexpensive. I don't know much about AMD related motherboards. I have an Abit BE6-II with a Celeron 566 (overclocked to 850) and it's more than enough for any application I run. The Abit board goes for about $190 Canadian dollars, so you should have no problems affording it.
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01-02-2001, 03:14 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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Thats only £85 in uk currency. I'm guessing a 650mhz processor would be enough for what i want?.
The pc i'm on now is old its about 3 years old and runs on 166mhz and i find that fast.
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01-02-2001, 03:24 PM #6Web Hosting Master
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Oh yeah, 650 will be fine. Just make sure to get a minimum of 128 MB of ram. Any less and it won't matter how fast your processor is.
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01-02-2001, 03:34 PM #7Web Hosting Master
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I've currently got 64 i think guess i'll buy another block of 64 then i should be fine?
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01-02-2001, 03:44 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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yep, get more ram. Otherwise you won't benefit from the increased processor speed as much as you should.
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01-02-2001, 04:34 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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I would suggest a brand new 128 ram, since your current 64 ram is most likely 66 mhz.
a 64 ram for that will be hard to find, and probably almost as expensive as a 128 ram @ 100/133mhz
And yes, ram is definately the thing to invest on if you plan to do some graphic design... I have 256 and windows manage to eat 150mb just to start IE :pFélix C.Courtemanche · webmaster@can-host.com
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01-02-2001, 04:36 PM #10Web Hosting Master
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The current 64 i have is not in a machine. It's still in its box. So guess more cash to fork out.
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01-02-2001, 07:02 PM #11Web Hosting Master
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With AMD processors, I believe Asus motherboards are reasonable, though they aren't *the* best on the market (my comp's running a K6-2/350 with an Asus and it's doing OK).
Though the more RAM you have the better obviously.... Though don't use so much that Win98 can't handle the extra RAMMy 2 Cents.... (or is that 2.2 cents inc. GST...?)
Have a think about this : Programming is like sex. Make a single little mistake, and you'll be supporting it for the rest of your life.
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01-02-2001, 07:02 PM #12Web Hosting Master
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Gotta watch the RAM if you're doing much with graphics. Careful on the DIMM slots so you don't wind up eating expensive RAM later if you upgrade...
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01-02-2001, 07:25 PM #13Web Hosting Master
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So would 128mb ram be good enough?.
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01-02-2001, 07:32 PM #14Web Hosting Master
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I find 128M plenty on most systems... though I do usually buck up to 256K or more on the systems where I do intensive graphical work, and often a full 1G on our development systems.
For most uses, though, on a 600MHz or better board with a decent graphics card (16M minimum) and a fast bus, 128M system RAM is just dandy-fine-plenty, really.
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01-02-2001, 07:34 PM #15Web Hosting Master
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Yeah, 128 MB is good for 90% of tasks. But like others have stated, if you're going to be doing a lot of graphic design and/or heavy gaming (Unreal Tournament, Quake, etc....) 256 is even sweeter.
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01-02-2001, 07:34 PM #16Junior Guru Wannabe
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You may as well go for the 256MB Ram. I have that much, and wished I got more . When you are scanning big images, or playing games ( We all need to shoot some people every now and then ), it really does make every go along faster.
As for the mother board, have a look at the Asus A7V, it is a good mother board.Cheers,
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01-02-2001, 07:36 PM #17Web Hosting Master
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I don't play games much on my pc i use my playstation or dreamcast for that. Don't do much graphic design either really just the odd image. And i wouldnt subject any scanner to my picture .
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01-02-2001, 07:39 PM #18Web Hosting Master
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Kind of a side note, but Michael's got a good point on scanning applications -- I've run into this; but it didn't come to mind because I do little of it, routinely.
Scanning at high resolution on larger source material can take half-way to forever if you have to keep swapping RAM to disk; so if you're planning much of that, extra RAM is nice to have.
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01-02-2001, 08:45 PM #19Web Hosting Master
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An Abit motherboard would be a good choice, especially a KT7 with an AMD Duron 700 and an HB pencil (You'll need that to get your duron overclocked - we have one running at 1050Mhz in our office and it makes windows fly along with 256Mb RAM).
The more memory the better and seen as it is only £100 for 256MB PC133 Ram in the UK at the moment then you would be slightly mad not to go for it (And I know your not mad).Karl Austin :: KDAWS.com
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01-03-2001, 04:51 AM #20Web Hosting Master
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256mb ram from where the place i use its about £130.
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01-03-2001, 05:14 AM #21Junior Guru Wannabe
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Just becareful with the RAM. I got screwed over, well not screwed over cause it didn't cost me extra, but was misled at the computer store.
I got PC 133 Ram, and an AMD Athlon 900 - but PC 133 only works with Intels, AMD's default back to PC 100.Cheers,
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01-03-2001, 09:40 AM #22Web Hosting Master
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256MB PC133 for Abit KT7-RAID is £93.59 form Crucial ordered off the net - this is top grade memory.
http://www.crucial.com/uk/index.asp?...RAID&x=16&y=19Karl Austin :: KDAWS.com
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