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Subject: upgrade or UPGRADE?
Original Message Date: 13-May-04 @ 01:31 AM - upgrade or UPGRADE?
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My DAW is a few years old but still kickin- 1.5ghz Athlon thuderbird on an Iwill
KK266 mobo- based on the old ProRec "roll yer own" specs, remember those?
Anyway, I was about to get some more PC133 ram but then noticed that the faster
ram was actually cheaper! But you can't use DDR PC2100 ram w/ PC133 so...it
occured to me...why not get a whole new mobo along with some new fast ram?
Well that's a lot more money! But perhaps it's worth it? What do y'all think? Will I
see a GIANT HUGE difference in performance from my current system compared
to a newer mobo w/ faster RAM? I'd probably also talk myself into getting a new
CPU while I'm at it...
Opinions, please.
thanks,
bradelectro
Message 11/12 14-May-04 @ 04:54 PM Edit: 14-May-04 | 04:55 PM - RE: upgrade or UPGRADE?
Congrats on the new system Brad.
For others reading this thread who wanna save a buck, though, I second the K7S5A. Been running mine (it's on my secondary system right now) for many years now and it's been a consistently great performer and exceedingly reliable. Fastest booting board I've found, too. Even with only an 1800/512 in it, it still holds its own next to my newer 2800/1GB/Epox system. Now, I'm still convinced I might have some sort of bottleneck in the newer system, but it's still quite impressive to see such an old system hold its own nowadays
For others reading this thread who wanna save a buck, though, I second the K7S5A. Been running mine (it's on my secondary system right now) for many years now and it's been a consistently great performer and exceedingly reliable. Fastest booting board I've found, too. Even with only an 1800/512 in it, it still holds its own next to my newer 2800/1GB/Epox system. Now, I'm still convinced I might have some sort of bottleneck in the newer system, but it's still quite impressive to see such an old system hold its own nowadays
Message 12/12 07-Jun-04 @ 06:59 PM - RE: upgrade or UPGRADE?
influx, what would you reccomend for a power supply in that setup? least noise? voltage?
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