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SimonTemplar
05-05-2001, 01:54 PM
Hi All,
Well my P-III system just fried itself this morning. Actually saw current floating on the mobo! Scared the **** out of me. Anyhow, it fried 256 megs of ram and the power supply is shot. All the leads on the ram are black! I've got to get something quick(I'm using my trusty old 233 to post here). I don't know what to get. I'm thinking Athlon 1.33 on a KT7A, or maybe a Asus A7A266 so I can use DDR. KT7A does not use DDR right? Then to confuse myself even more, I had this bright idea of buying a Abit VP6 with 2 P-III 1gig chips. I use this thing mostly for gaming so any suggestions would be great. Basically I'm looking for bang for the buck. I salvaged my Voodoo 5,sound card,3Com Nic,and HDD, but I need a Mobo,Processor,Ram,and Power Supply. Any suggestions, and or comments on the 3 options above would be greatly appreciated. Thanx!!!!!!!!!!!!

nick t
05-05-2001, 02:00 PM
If your cpu is still ok the best mobo at the mo (in my opinion) is the via pro 266 master

http://tw.msi.com.tw/showroom/mainboard/eng/Pro266Master.htm.

They a raid version to. You can use ddr or sdram in it, quite cool for future upgrades.

Or bin the lot and turn to the dark side (AMD). lol, gona get some sh*t for saying that!

[This message has been edited by socalgal (edited 05-05-2001).]

SimonTemplar
05-05-2001, 02:25 PM
Forgot to mention this, but I also could use some suggestions as to where to buy. I would like to buy everything at one place. Thanx!!

nick t
05-06-2001, 03:16 AM
http://www.pricewatch.com/