As a matter of fact You can get what you want for $100 bucks. You can get a
1 GHz Duron for $69.99 a 1.333 (266 fsb) Athlon for $119.99 or a CDR-RW
drive for $79.99 (DVS 16x10x40) which I have and I will say it works very
good and comes with Nero 5.5 or a DVS 20x10x40 for only $89.99 and they are
all new. Check out www.tigerdirect.com they are very good to deal with in my
personal opinion. Sorry if this sound like a commercial.
Larry Knox
----- Original Message -----
From: "joseph marty" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 12:37 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Processor upgrade


> For $100 you're not going to get any of the things you mention unless
you're buying them used.  You will not be able to see the improvement, if
any, in the speed of your broadband connection.  I also am an excite@home
survivor.  I replaced my former computer which had an 800 Mhz PIII, with a
new 1.8 gig computer.  It does a lot of things faster, as it should, being
225% faster than my old dead one.  I can't see that in how fast my pages
load or how fast I download. I found www.compuplus.com selling a P IV 1.8
gig for $235, but, of course, you'd have to get a P IV mobo, new memory, a
bigger power supply, and a few other things.  Try doing a google search to
see if you can overclock your 750 to a higher speed.  Use the $100 to buy
the modem ATT rents you for $10 a month.  You'll be further ahead.
>
>
> >
> >I have 100 bucks burning a whole in my pocket which could either get me a
> >faster CDRW drive than what I've already got or I could upgrade my 750mhz
to
> >a ghz Duron or socket A T-Bird.
> >
> >I burn about 1 to 2 CD's a week but I'd like to see my system running
with
> >more horsepower.  Would a broadband connection currently running a 750mhz
> >Duron be greatly improved by a 1ghz Duron or 950mhz T-bird?
> >
> >I have 256mb pc133 RAM so that should suffice for my Win98se/xp dual boot
> >system.  I am booting with a pair of  7200rpm, 80-pin SCSI hard drives
with
> >an ATA/66 eide drive only used for mass storage.
> >
> >>
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