- Feb 7, 2002
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This is long-winded, that's how I write, but I have a lot of legacy issues, and if you can offer advice, it will be a huge help to me. Thank you!
Please forgive me, this is a shameless plea for help, but all my time and energy has gone into my machine, and my son's machine, new upgrades, so I totally forgot about the other hardware moving around, and time is running short...
Brief explanation of my situation...
I'm building two new C2D machines, for myself, and my son. Our current P4 hardware gets handed down since we are a big-time computer family. Everyone is in serious need of upgrades, so it seemed fitting as my Christmas gift to the siblings, and myself of course. LOL
I've spent MONTHS researching the C2D platform, and received so much incredibly useful help from the good people here. I'm making the jump to PCIe, and C2D from the P4, so I wanted to understand the technology before leaping into it via my wallet. I've finally been able to create a shopping list for the two C2D machines I mentioned above, but I neglected in looking at the lower hardware, and now I'm shocked at how bad it is.
For one, my daughter is using an old Athlon XP 1800+ of mine on an ECS motherboard (please don't laugh too hard at me), and my wife swears by her seriously overpriced and under-achieving gateway POC (Piece of Crap) machine that still uses RAMBUS. Their needs don't warrant using the hardware surrendered by myself or my son, so I'm passing my Athlon XP 2600+ (Linux LAMP server rig) down to my daughter, her's goes to my Wife, and what my wife has goes to a new simple machine for our 11 year old.
I'm a firm believer in not wasting ANYTHING, especially when it comes to legacy hardware, so I'm left with a huge laundry list of things to do with all these lesser machines.
This is where you can come in. There is NO WAY I am going to use that ECS motherboard my daughter is using with the Athlon 1800+ for my wife's machine. It loses it's bios settings regularly, and the keyboard is powered when the system is off, no matter the BIOS settings. I had a motherboard fail on my trusty Athlon XP 2600+ and replaced it with a nVidia one with an nforce (something) chipset, and it's performed amazingly as my Linux LAMP server for quite awhile.
So what I'm asking is, if I post the processors, can you guys recommend some reliable but inexpensive motherboards for them? I want to replace the gateway motherboard with something more RAM friendly. It has 256mb of RAMBUS ram, and I don't feel ANY windows install should be without at LEAST 512mb. A gig is better since I have all these sticks of DDR2 laying around. Some 512, some 1g.
I ran CPUZ on all the target machines. On my wife's on the gateway POC, it's...
Name Intel Pentium 4
Codename Willamette
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1400MHz
Package Socket 423 mPGA (platform ID = 0h)
I don't recognize the Socket 423 mPGA, so I'm worried there.
The other one is the Athlon XP 1800+, and I can't do a CPUZ on hers because it has nasty viruses. I need to reinstall the OS AGAIN in order to run it. I'll edit this post when that happens.
I'm all for upgrading these processors on these platforms if it is cheap enough. Meaning, if someone says they saw another althon 2600+ and motherboard for cheaper than a new motherboard I want, etc. Just don't have the cash to put P4's on all the sibling machines. The C2D for my son and I are the big event this year, and I'm all about matching the hardware with the needs. Outside of my son and I, the other members of my family really don't have that hard of a demand on the hardware.
Thanks for your time and Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
Hop
Please forgive me, this is a shameless plea for help, but all my time and energy has gone into my machine, and my son's machine, new upgrades, so I totally forgot about the other hardware moving around, and time is running short...
Brief explanation of my situation...
I'm building two new C2D machines, for myself, and my son. Our current P4 hardware gets handed down since we are a big-time computer family. Everyone is in serious need of upgrades, so it seemed fitting as my Christmas gift to the siblings, and myself of course. LOL
I've spent MONTHS researching the C2D platform, and received so much incredibly useful help from the good people here. I'm making the jump to PCIe, and C2D from the P4, so I wanted to understand the technology before leaping into it via my wallet. I've finally been able to create a shopping list for the two C2D machines I mentioned above, but I neglected in looking at the lower hardware, and now I'm shocked at how bad it is.
For one, my daughter is using an old Athlon XP 1800+ of mine on an ECS motherboard (please don't laugh too hard at me), and my wife swears by her seriously overpriced and under-achieving gateway POC (Piece of Crap) machine that still uses RAMBUS. Their needs don't warrant using the hardware surrendered by myself or my son, so I'm passing my Athlon XP 2600+ (Linux LAMP server rig) down to my daughter, her's goes to my Wife, and what my wife has goes to a new simple machine for our 11 year old.
I'm a firm believer in not wasting ANYTHING, especially when it comes to legacy hardware, so I'm left with a huge laundry list of things to do with all these lesser machines.
This is where you can come in. There is NO WAY I am going to use that ECS motherboard my daughter is using with the Athlon 1800+ for my wife's machine. It loses it's bios settings regularly, and the keyboard is powered when the system is off, no matter the BIOS settings. I had a motherboard fail on my trusty Athlon XP 2600+ and replaced it with a nVidia one with an nforce (something) chipset, and it's performed amazingly as my Linux LAMP server for quite awhile.
So what I'm asking is, if I post the processors, can you guys recommend some reliable but inexpensive motherboards for them? I want to replace the gateway motherboard with something more RAM friendly. It has 256mb of RAMBUS ram, and I don't feel ANY windows install should be without at LEAST 512mb. A gig is better since I have all these sticks of DDR2 laying around. Some 512, some 1g.
I ran CPUZ on all the target machines. On my wife's on the gateway POC, it's...
Name Intel Pentium 4
Codename Willamette
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1400MHz
Package Socket 423 mPGA (platform ID = 0h)
I don't recognize the Socket 423 mPGA, so I'm worried there.
The other one is the Athlon XP 1800+, and I can't do a CPUZ on hers because it has nasty viruses. I need to reinstall the OS AGAIN in order to run it. I'll edit this post when that happens.
I'm all for upgrading these processors on these platforms if it is cheap enough. Meaning, if someone says they saw another althon 2600+ and motherboard for cheaper than a new motherboard I want, etc. Just don't have the cash to put P4's on all the sibling machines. The C2D for my son and I are the big event this year, and I'm all about matching the hardware with the needs. Outside of my son and I, the other members of my family really don't have that hard of a demand on the hardware.
Thanks for your time and Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
Hop