Mobo n' proc for $100 (your suggestions?)

[sman789]

After seeing all the discussions of the upcoming processors (p4's with 800fsb, Athlon 64, Prescotts, Opterons)

I've decided to wait till summer (last minute before college) to buy a PC

So what to do with my P3 450mhz PC. till then, upgrade of course.

I've seen the 1700+ for $50 but i dunno whats a good motherboard for so can use suggests some bundles that are extremely close to $100

you could suggests other procs than the 1700+ tho

What could i get the best bang for $100

Oh yeah mobo's must except SDRAM since thats what i'm using and don't have much loot for DDR

 

[Mikki]

This is what you need right here

 

[sman789]

no, i already have a case, memory, HDDs, video card, CD drives.....i just need to update the mobo and proc

 

[Mikki]

That's okay, I was being sarcastic anyway...

 

[skyking]

for 50$, you can occaisionally find 333 chipset motherboards on the forum. These do well with t-bred A's B's and palominos.
edit : OOPS! SDR? SIS 735 chipset mobos work, like the k7s5a and other knockoffs.

 

[mechBgon]

If your power supply is as old as the rest of the system and is ~250W or less, then it might be smart to get yourself a Celeron2 and a Biostar M6VLR, which won't be as demanding on your power supply as the K7S5A combo. www.mwave.com has motherboard bundles for good prices. If you do want to do the K7S5A then I'd advise getting a Duron to go with it, because with a P2 450, chances are your memory is PC100.

 

[sman789]

it has a newer psu since the old one died and half ram is pc100 then 133 outta 512mb