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Re: upgrading your computer
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Fri, 12 Nov 1999 00:38:22 +1100
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EDO ram will work at 66Mhz bus speed, and I've never seen any EDO ram is
capable to run at 100Mhz speed. So you have to work out how you gonna spend
that $500. with $500, you can get a BX mobo with 128M SDRAM and a P3-??? CPU.

Jun Qian

James Ruby wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking about upgrading my old p166 cyrix processor with an iwill
> tv512 motherboard to something a bit faster such as a p2.
>
> Right now I have 128 mb of edo memory, I'm wondering:
>
> 1 What would be the best motherboard to buy
> 2 can I still use the 128 mb of edo memory I have or will I have to buy
> sdram
> 3 Is there anything I should stay far away from?

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