On 29 Oct 98 at 0:28, Ron D'Agostino wrote:

> Can anyone tell me if the Asus P2B motherboard would be a good
> choice for a 500 workstation running Win95 and NT office
> applications on Intel 486DX4/100 and Pentium/100 machines.

  The P2B is an ATX Slot 1 motherboard with 440BX chipset and AGP.
It's a very nice board.

  But to replace a DX4-100 or P100 with it, you're looking at:

1.  New Slot 1 CPU; PII or Celeron.

2.  New RAM; SDRAM DIMMs.

3.  New ATX case and power supply.

4.  Probably new AGP video card, at least for the 486s which may be
using VLB (and the users who have P100 will almost certainly demand
that they get at least what those with 486s are getting).

  The main component that will still be usable is the hard drives and
network cards.  It may be much simpler, and not much more expensive,
to transfer existing data to new machines than to upgrade each
individual PC.

David G

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