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I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally. Now I want to upgrade to something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo. I like to stick to ATA though as I can not afford two hard drives right now. I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford. Something cheaper but very stable combination. Thanks for your suggestions. |
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I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford.
Something cheaper but very stable combination. I think you are trying to make too big of a jump and still use a lot of your old stuff. Anything compatible that is still "new" is probably going to be a restock and will fail. Instead, look at the latest Dell cheapies. They are not that bad, and you are in to a complete machine for less than $300. johns |
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"johns" wrote in message ups.com... I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford. Something cheaper but very stable combination. I think you are trying to make too big of a jump and still use a lot of your old stuff. Anything compatible that is still "new" is probably going to be a restock and will fail. Instead, look at the latest Dell cheapies this is a 'homebuilt' group. If you mention DELL then it must be in the form of an apology. e.g. I hate to say it, but a dell maybe a better choice for You. ;^)~ They are not that bad, and you are in to a complete machine for less than $300. johns |
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You're seriously restricting yourself by requiring a board that takes an AGP
graphics card. However, some still exist: http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en-us/...t.php?S_ID=141 (It has only 2 PCI slots, but it includes an onboard NIC, so you wouldn't need to carry over your "Lan card".) It uses a Socket AM2 Athlon 64 CPU, so you'd need DDR2 memory to go with it. On the Intel side, http://www.giga-byte.co.uk/Products/...5GME-775-RH-AS Make sure to get this revision of the board if you want to run a Core 2 Duo CPU. It uses DDR RAM, though. Stay with the 800 MHz FSB Core2 CPUs. For both of these, check further whether you unnamed Matrox graphics card will fit. Your KR7A has an AGP 4X slot, so there may be a compatibility issue. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agp I found these using the "power search" function at www.newegg.com. I'd suggest NewEgg as an online vendor, but I doubt that they ship to the UK. I have used neither of these microATX boards, but both makers are reputable. You might do better to go with a PCI-E graphics card. There are still boards around with ATA drive controllers, but AGP graphics are pretty much over for new systems. Return address scrambled. Replace nkbob with bobkn. "bigdaddy" wrote in message news Hi all I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally. Now I want to upgrade to something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo. I like to stick to ATA though as I can not afford two hard drives right now. I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford. Something cheaper but very stable combination. Thanks for your suggestions. |
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On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:17:08 +0000, bigdaddy thoughfully wrote:
Hi all I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally. Now I want to upgrade to something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo. I like to stick to ATA though as I can not afford two hard drives right now. I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford. Something cheaper but very stable combination. Thanks for your suggestions. I think you're limiting your options. Look for some combos, I saw a AMD BE-2300 (X2 64 4400 performance) with Nvidia onboard graphics and onboard sound for $88, add memory and you can use the rest of the hardware. The onboard video is Nvideo 6000, hardware 3.0 pixel shader (Directx 9.0c) support. |
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:22:58 GMT, jaster wrote:
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:17:08 +0000, bigdaddy thoughfully wrote: Hi all I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally. Now I want to upgrade to something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo. I like to stick to ATA though as I can not afford two hard drives right now. I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford. Something cheaper but very stable combination. Thanks for your suggestions. I think you're limiting your options. Look for some combos, I saw a AMD BE-2300 (X2 64 4400 performance) with Nvidia onboard graphics and onboard sound for $88, add memory and you can use the rest of the hardware. The onboard video is Nvideo 6000, hardware 3.0 pixel shader (Directx 9.0c) support. Thanks all for your suggestions. The idea of using Matrox card etc. was to minimize the expenses. But as some good folks suggested, it is better to find a m/board with onboard Video. But I do not know which is a better proposition, on board Video or separate Video Card. But I still wants to retain my ATA Hard Disks because of the huge DATA I have on them. |
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"bigdaddy" wrote in message ... On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:22:58 GMT, jaster wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:17:08 +0000, bigdaddy thoughfully wrote: Hi all I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally. Now I want to upgrade to something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo. I like to stick to ATA though as I can not afford two hard drives right now. I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford. Something cheaper but very stable combination. Thanks for your suggestions. I think you're limiting your options. Look for some combos, I saw a AMD BE-2300 (X2 64 4400 performance) with Nvidia onboard graphics and onboard sound for $88, add memory and you can use the rest of the hardware. The onboard video is Nvideo 6000, hardware 3.0 pixel shader (Directx 9.0c) support. Thanks all for your suggestions. The idea of using Matrox card etc. was to minimize the expenses. But as some good folks suggested, it is better to find a m/board with onboard Video. But I do not know which is a better proposition, on board Video or separate Video Card. But I still wants to retain my ATA Hard Disks because of the huge DATA I have on them. Disaster waiting to happen! |
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JAD wrote:
"bigdaddy" wrote in message ... On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:22:58 GMT, jaster wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:17:08 +0000, bigdaddy thoughfully wrote: Hi all I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally. Now I want to upgrade to something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo. I like to stick to ATA though as I can not afford two hard drives right now. I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford. Something cheaper but very stable combination. Thanks for your suggestions. I think you're limiting your options. Look for some combos, I saw a AMD BE-2300 (X2 64 4400 performance) with Nvidia onboard graphics and onboard sound for $88, add memory and you can use the rest of the hardware. The onboard video is Nvideo 6000, hardware 3.0 pixel shader (Directx 9.0c) support. Thanks all for your suggestions. The idea of using Matrox card etc. was to minimize the expenses. But as some good folks suggested, it is better to find a m/board with onboard Video. But I do not know which is a better proposition, on board Video or separate Video Card. But I still wants to retain my ATA Hard Disks because of the huge DATA I have on them. Disaster waiting to happen! "huge DATA" = "you need backups!" And preferably to another hard drive, as that makes it easy to copy everything. Hard drives are cheap, while data recovery companies are not cheap. Paul |
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 06:51:45 +0000, bigdaddy thoughfully wrote:
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:22:58 GMT, jaster wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:17:08 +0000, bigdaddy thoughfully wrote: Hi all I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally. Now I want to upgrade to something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo. I like to stick to ATA though as I can not afford two hard drives right now. I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford. Something cheaper but very stable combination. Thanks for your suggestions. I think you're limiting your options. Look for some combos, I saw a AMD BE-2300 (X2 64 4400 performance) with Nvidia onboard graphics and onboard sound for $88, add memory and you can use the rest of the hardware. The onboard video is Nvideo 6000, hardware 3.0 pixel shader (Directx 9.0c) support. Thanks all for your suggestions. The idea of using Matrox card etc. was to minimize the expenses. But as some good folks suggested, it is better to find a m/board with onboard Video. But I do not know which is a better proposition, on board Video or separate Video Card. But I still wants to retain my ATA Hard Disks because of the huge DATA I have on them. Most onboard video motherboards also have onboard lan and a PCI-E slot for later upgrade to a separate video. Because you're still using a Matrox and Lan card, any Nvidia 6000 class video would be way better than your Matrox card. And also have IDE slots so you can continue using your ATA drives. But you will need to buy DDR2 memory for any newer motherboard. you |
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