upgrade of 4440 LX possible??

[lolita]

Hello all,

I would like for music production purposes to upgrade my PC however I have some doubts if I can upgrade my system at all to a system It can be fast enough and powerfull to have the capacity of having a Hard drive of 40 to 80 GB of 7200 or plus rpm.

Basicaly I have a P2 MMX 300 Mhz (bellow the complete specs) with a Intel 440 LX motherboard. In few words its very slow for what I have to do... in other words I will need to upgrade its motherboard and possibly other components or buy a new system.

I read in the web that this kind of motherboards i have are old and are in old AT boxes and now the new motherboards cant fit in these tower boxes... It seems that If I want a fast hard drive like ATA-100 my motherboard will not accept it... and possibly other conflicting issues.

My knowledge about computer hardware is intermediate so please if explaining give it in clear and understandeble non professional words please...

I would like if anyone in these foruns could help me how could I upgrade my system if possible of course in order to work effectively with a good and fast machine.

In my computer I have a 440 LX motherboard. Its a P2 MMX 300Mhz, 256 MB RAM and here are the specs:

Motherboard: Intel 440 LX
Chipset: Intel 82371AB
PCI chipset: 82443 LX/EX

chipset structure:
- chip number = 2
- topology = 1 BGA, 492 pin
1 BGA, 324 pin (82371AB)

Memory:
- cache L2 Type -
- Cache L2 max dimension -
- Max memory supported 1 GB(EDO), 512MB(SDRAM)
- Cacheable area -
- ECC Support Yes
- Memory supported EDO/SDRAM

Cpu:
- n° cpu manageable = 2
- Intel cpus = Pentium II - Celeron
- AMD cpus ?
- Cyrix cpus ?

Support:
- USB = Yes
- AGP = Yes
- Plug & Play = Yes

PCI:
- PCI = 2.1
- Concurrent PCI = Yes

Power Management:
- SMM / ACPI = Yes
- PC97 = Yes

Integrated Controller:
- Name = 82371AB
- Bus Master Support = Yes
- Ultra DMA Support = Yes
- Max Transfer rate = UltraDMA (33.3MB/S)

Bus frequency Supported 60, 66 MHz
- Non ufficially supported 68, 75, 83Mhz

Thank you all.

Lolita
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[tony_j15]

I think you should just dump the system and get a whole new one. You would want at least a 1 ghz proc. 40gig hard drive at ATA-100. Now we get into the tricky part, AMD or Intel? AMD is usually less expensive and works right on par with its Intel counterparts. awaiting reply....