Hi, i am planning to upgrade my 3 year old PIII 500, 384 mb SDRAM PC100, 200 gig, ATX 300w. My geoforce 256 card got fried because of the fan stopped working on it.
I have been looking for which new cpu to buy and i think i'll go for a AMD Athlon XP 2100+/2200+ cpu. My budget is like 300-400 $ for the whole thing. 1. The big problem i have now is that i need a motherboard supported by Linux, which shall have integrated 100 MBPS Lan/Sound/Geoforce2/lmsensors support. I also want the motherboard to have thermal alarm capabilities so that it shall shutdown the computer when it becomes to hot for the CPU. And i want to have support for lan/sound/gfx in Linux. Do you guys have any motherboard to recommend ? 2. Will X work with the new motherboards with integrated geoforce card, does these card perform any good for playing the latest games in windows. Or is it better to buy a brand new Geoforce Ti4 128 mb Mx ? I mostly play Counterstrike and other FPS games. 3. Can i use my old memory chips ? 1 128 MB PC100 ,1 256 MB PC100 or do i need to go for the DDR 400 mhz memories to be able to boot the machine ? 4. Do you have any recommendations in which Cpu Fan to buy (I don't want the computer to frie up again :) and is it neccessary to buy chassi fans aswell when choosing a AMD processor ? Thanks for helping me out guys. /Jonas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
