Need info on what to upgrade with PC for CM

[Ralph Beaman]

What video cards are optimal or bug free for CM and have a chance to upgrade to a 1200 Athlon, Thunderbird CPU. Should i stick with my 320 megs of PC 133 or go with the new DDR ram at 256 megs?

[Mr. Johnson--]

OMG man, I don't think you need anything more.

[fubar628]

I just got a Tbird 1200 with Asus ge2 32 meg, Asus ava266 mb. Using 133 sdram With a similar rig, CM will rock even with all the mods installed.

The 1.33 are getting cheaper too. Ram is dirt cheap. get as much as u can afford. 512 meg would be good.

[Username]

Theres some boards, like the asus a7a266 (sp?) that accept pc100, 133 and also Pc2100 (but not at the same time).

This is a good board to move up to if you want to continue using the same memory. Later, you can get 512Mg of PC2100 if you want. Its a little pricey around 160$ US bux.

Lewis

http://srd.yahoo.com/goo/a7a266/5/*http://www.dansdata.com/a7a266.htm

[ 07-02-2001: Message edited by: Username ]

[Doug Beman]

From everything I've ever read about home computing, unless you're running Windows 2000 Pro, anything over 256 is going to be overkill unless you're doing heavy-duty graphics work. Windows simply doesn't have the memory management necessary to make full use of that much RAM. The same thing applies to dual-processor systems; not many apps are written to take advantage of dual-processors, so what you wind up with is 1 CPU cranking away on your app while the other sits and twiddles its tiny thumbs.

DjB

[ 07-02-2001: Message edited by: Doug Beman ]