Reply With QuoteA motherboard/Althon 64 2800 combo at pricewatch is $202, not too shabby.Originally Posted by burky
Will I have any issues regard my current hardware, specifically RAM? I heard Opterons require a specific kind for example.
Sausage-in-Training
Yes, go AMD 64!!!
The boards for them are about the same price as the P4 ones too, except the range is smaller.
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What kind of Ram do you have? If it's 2700 or 3200 DDR RAM, you'd be fine with a current Athlon XP compatible motherboard.
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IWILL, MSI, ASUS, amd Gigabyte are excellent boards. Never had any problems with them in the past, EVER. Well, ASUS messed up once and I exchanged the board and everything was fine.
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Sausage-in-Training
If you're going AMD 64, you want at least 1 gig of ram or you'll be bottlenecking it.
You might want to consider the AMD 64 3000, as it would only be about $20~30 more for that, and you get close to 200mhz there; good value. An AMD 3000 runs at 2167mhz, so that is not too much of a gain on your old processor.
Also you would be wanting a graphics card to the quality of ATI 9800pro or nVidia 6600, or you will be bottlenecking it on the gaming.
I have a nvidia 5200 right now, with an XP3000+ and that thing plays doom 3 jerkily.
I was also going to upgrade, but in order to not bottleneck at all, the total cost of the upgrade turned out to be around $750 or so, so I decided not to bother. It will be chaper in the US though, maybe $600 to do a really good job.
Sausage King
You running XP? XP is set to automatically restart after a major failure. If you're plugging shit in and restarting, restarting for no good reason, having startup problems, I'd take a look at the proc first.
Sausage-in-Training
In my case, it wasn't just XP which messed up. I ran a dual boot at that time with Win 98 SE, and that too messed up.
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Woooo. I'm back online reformatted with a new motherboard. I went with a Gigabyte motherboard. All my problems are gone.
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