Mobo/CPU/video upgrades

[sdveirs]

Looking to upgrade my current system with Tbird 1ghz or higher and a Geforce3.

Looking for opinions on mobos and brand of cards that use geforce.

Thanks - and yes, its for gaming

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Scott Veirs
Sterling, Virginia
sdveirs@sysnetix.com
www.sysnetix.com/sdveirs

[ThunderSix]

VisionTek's Geforce3 is one the better ones, first Geforce3 put out. Here's a review: http://www.hardocp.com/reviews/vidcards/visiontek/gf3/

Alot of people like the Iwill K266 mobo for their t-birds with the 266 FSB. ASUS and ABIT put out some other good boards.

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T-Bird 800@1000
ASUS A7V KT133
256MB PC133
ASUS V7700 Geforce2 GTS 64MB
Soundblaster Live! 5.1 X-Gamers
AOpen 12x40x DVD-ROM
WD 7200rpm 30gig HD
WD 7200rpm 20gig HD
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Hail to the King Baby!

[sdveirs]

looking on pricewatch I might be holding off on a G3 and go for a Geforce2 instead...any suggestions as board maker and which model of G2?

thanks

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Scott Veirs
Sterling, Virginia
sdveirs@sysnetix.com
www.sysnetix.com/sdveirs

[lwa]

I'm very happy with my A-BIT board. Take a look at it.

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Abit KT7A-Raid MB
Windows ME
AMD 1.2 Athlon 266
Western Digital 20 Gig 7200 rpm 100 ATA
Golden Orb Fan
384 Mg PC133 Ram
Sound Blaster X-Gamer
Live 5.1
Voodoo 5 5500
H.P. 9350I CD Writer
Pioneer DVD-106s
US Robotics 56k Modem
KDS AV-195TF 19" Monitor
Soon to be running Raid

[Moraelin]

Personally I went with an Asus K7M266 mobo and a Kyro II. It plays very nicely in higher resolutions.

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Moraelin -- the proud member of the Idiots' Guild

[hastx]

Check out the FIC ad11 mobo. Supports up to 1.3 Ghz / 266 Mhz bus athlon processor, uses the AMD 760 chipset, has gotten good reviews for performance and stability, and you can get it for $109 from Newegg. Here are some reviews.

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1418
http://www.socketa.com/reviews/fic/ad11sr/
http://www.ocworkbench.com/hardware/fic/ad11/ad11p1.htm
http://www.targetpc.com/hardware/motherboards/fic_ad11/

So far this board, combined with a 1200 / 266 t-bird, and 256 MB PC2100 ram, seems to give me a powerful and economical system. Right now I'm Running it with a 3d prophet 4500 card that i bought today.

so far, I expected way more from that card, it runs ut smoothly, but I'm having troubs getting the same performance in Q3.

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We do precision guesswork.

[sdveirs]

thanks looking into all of these things.

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Scott Veirs
Sterling, Virginia
sdveirs@sysnetix.com
www.sysnetix.com/sdveirs