Need upgrade advice, please

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I want to upgrade my K6-2 450Mhz to, at least 2Ghz, 512MB as
inexpensively as possible.

I realize I'll need a new MB and CPU and have no problem with AMD.
I'm not a "hot rodder". I use my computer for running MS Office,
Goldmine and DL'ng, burning and copying music. I have 80 MB's of Hard
disk (60 + 20)) and for now can get away with it. I'm also running a
Creative SB Audigy sound card. MY video is an ancient 4MB S3.
I would eventually like to keep the 60MB and add a 120MB for MP3's.

I'm an unemployed 60 year old (no work for 9 months) so "bang for the
buck" is the operative phrase. Obviously, however, reliability in
also important.

I hope some of you will take a minute and give me some solid ideas.

TIA

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steve randall said:
I want to upgrade my K6-2 450Mhz to, at least 2Ghz, 512MB as
inexpensively as possible.

I realize I'll need a new MB and CPU and have no problem with AMD.
I'm not a "hot rodder". I use my computer for running MS Office,
Goldmine and DL'ng, burning and copying music. I have 80 MB's of Hard
disk (60 + 20)) and for now can get away with it. I'm also running a
Creative SB Audigy sound card. MY video is an ancient 4MB S3.
I would eventually like to keep the 60MB and add a 120MB for MP3's.

I'm an unemployed 60 year old (no work for 9 months) so "bang for the
buck" is the operative phrase. Obviously, however, reliability in
also important.

I hope some of you will take a minute and give me some solid ideas.

TIA

Please post replies here. The email is inoperative.
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I'd recommend the ECS K7S5A Pro combo's running from $60-90 (XP1800-XP2400).
www.outpost.com, www.newegg.com , Google search. You can use your old
hardware except the memory if it is PC100, the case if it is not ATX, the
psu if it is not ATX 2.0. I'd also get a decent video card with at least
32m memory.
 
have a look at mwave.com or newegg.com and look at some of the barebones
systems. There are so many alternatives it would take a year to give them
all to you....once again the 'bang for the buck' is the AMD slogan so I
would start there.
 
If I had the bucks--what about thje 2500 Barton? Considering my needs
is it worth it?
 
That makes a lot of sense--thanks.

For running Office and playing music? You'll hardly notice the
difference between an XP1800 and the 2500. Putting extra money towards
better speakers will make a lot more difference for music than a faster
processor. Similarly, for the processor price difference you could have
512Mb memory instead of 256Mb which is likely to be of more use with
Office apps.
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What BarryL said.

I can concurrently do ICS server, Commanche4 with streaming audio music for
background on a K7S5A XP2000, 512 DDR, onboard soundcard, Ti4200/128 no
problems except the slightly higher cpu temps which will drop whne outside
temps go lower. I was doing Kingston PC133 but the 2-256 chips caused
occasional lockups.
 
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