Upgrade advice please!

[Final Cut]

OK, I know this is the wrong forum but everyone seems to hang out here so....

I'm looking at spending around £200 on an upgrade. My current specs:

PIII 450@600
Asus P3V4X
Viper V770 vanilla
128 MB PC100 (will do 124)
13.6 GB Quantum Fireball Plus KA
plus the usual CDROM etc..

I either want to get 256MB of PC133 from Crucial to replace or add to my PC100, or get another Fireball and convert a Promise ATA66 to RAID. What'cha think? Which would be best/any other suggestions?

Any help much appreciated!


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[This message has been edited by Final Cut (edited 04-07-2000).]

[Machupo]

why don't you get a promise66, another hard drive (same type)... sell your ram, get 128mb of pc133 and get a geforce sdr?

hehe, or you could splurge on a 21" mon

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[SadSadPanda]

I agree with Machupo's suggestions.
But then Final Cut, if the RAM will only do 124, then how is your PIII@ 600?
That wouldmean its only @ 558.

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[Final Cut]

You can run your RAM asyncronously (spelling?) on a P3V4X, so while the FSB is at 133, the RAM is at 100. That's why I want PC133 cos I'm sure running the RAM slower is a bit of a bottleneck...Also RAM prices seem to be slowly creeping back up so maybe I sould get some now?

Was thinking about getting GeForce but don't you think it would be better to wait a bit for 3DFX & nVidia's new offerings?

Damn I'm like a kid in a sweet shop!

[Machupo]

well, you could wait... and spend all £200 on a single vid card (that's how much the new ones are going to cost)...

i'd go with the all-around upgrade (filesystem, vid, ram)

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