wot motherboard shall i get????

[Adamtayloruk]

i have recently decided to upgrade my desktop pc it has a 350mhz pentium 2 processer...
what do you recomend for a price range of about £60-£160

thanx in advance

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[paparazi]

There are quite a few Dealers out there offering upgrade kits, everything needed to upgrade an exsisting base unit.
The money you have is not going to buy you anything out the top draw but for around £150 expect to be looking at a Duron 850, heatsink/fan, 128 SDram p133, Midi 300watt case with a PC chips 810 motherboard (certainly not the best but with everything integrated) sound, graphics, modem and network lan, you will be buying into an integrated solution that will speed things up significantly for you.
Better non itegrated setups are going to cost you much more than your budget will allow at this point. Martin Vote if you found this post helpful please!!

 

[CitrixEngineer]

Have a look at

http://www.tomshardware.com

to get some ideas about what's out there.

If you're only going for a motherboard, the usual suspects are Abit, ASUS and SOYO. for £160, you should be able to get a top quality board.

If you want to get a motherboard AND processor, then, as paparazzi says, the Duron 850 is a good, cheap choice. You should be able to pick up an Abit KT7A cheaply as well - it's not the most up-to-date, but few would dispute its place as a classic. It should also fit your budget, and allow you to re-use all the parts you already have.

If you go this route, you should upgrade your PSU to a 300W model, and consider extra fans for your case. AMD chips love to be kept cool.

If you're in the UK, GSquared will do a reasonable deal - and provide superb support (I'm not affiliated to them, but they're local to me, and I rarely buy my components anywhere else).

Their price list is here

http://www.gsquared.net/,

but to save time, their price for a KT7A board is £95 (or £127 for the RAID board - recommended), and a Duron 850 is £49 - so this fits your budget nicely.

I hope this helps