Need to upgrade from 486 motherboard

[Dusty]

My school is looking to upgrade approx. 70, 486 PCs in mini-towers to the cheapest pentium motherboard systems available (100? 133? 166?) for less than $200. Can this be done?

[MR COMPUTER]

Can do! I have done a bunch of these low dollar upgrades for schools. You start with an Amptron Pm9100 or PC Chips M571 mainboard.(same board)Add a 200 Winchip w/fan,and 32meg sdram strip of memory. This gives you selectable 1-4 meg video and onboard sound. This leaves you money left over for a good cdrom.... http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[Dusty]

This sounds encouraging, thanks! I'm off to the PC chips site.

[Stevo]

a real cheep system

586PCI txpro2 m/b with onboard video + sound
cyrix 300mmx
32mb dimm

This will cost approx $330NZ which is about $165US (I Think)

[Dusty]

I'm interested. Is there one place I can go to purchase these? I hope I'm not breaking any SysOpt rules.

[MR COMPUTER]

First,You need to decide how many computers to upgrade at once.The larger quantities you buy,the lower the price.Plus,most vendors will give a price break for schools.Need more details on how to/vendors? Send me an e-mail.