I think you may build a new PC yourself. You can carry over your existing
parts over. (you may only need a new mobo, CPU and case)

look for a AMD CPU (there is no reason to have a P3/Celeron CPU any more),
and a mobo that supports new 133 FSB Thunderbird CPU. I highly recommend
ASUS A7V133.

New C type AMD Thunderbird CPU runs at 133 FSB, the rest Thunderbird and
Duron run at 100 FSB, which your PC100 RAM will work just fine. The best
Price performance CPU might be Duron 800 (if you don't do any overclocking).
If you pay a bit more, get a Thunderbird 800 or 850. the best part about AMD
CPU is: easy to overclock, most of new mobo will support overclock features,
it is just as simple as change in BIOS setting or DIP switch. Most 750+ AMD
CPUs will easy overclock to 1G+ if you have good cooling. *ASUS mobo is very
overclock friendly.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Neal Collins" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 4:58 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Upgrading computer


> Hi all,
> I currently have a HP Pavilion 8562. It runs on an PIII 500 with 224 meg
of Ram. I would like to increase the speed a bit, somewhere around 850 to
1ghz or so. Can anyone recommend a good motherboard/cpu combo that is fairly
inexpensive and will fit this computer?
> My RAM is all PC100, so the motherboard would have to accept that since I
haven't stepped up to PC133 yet.
> Current system config:
> Pentium 3 500
> 224 mb pc100
> 2 hard drives -- 20 gig and 30 gig
> hp cdrom drive
> iomega zip cd 650 burner
>
> Basically, its the original system with the addition of another hard
drive, more ram, and a burner. I have taken a look inside the case and the
mobo is not going to be the easiest to get to. Maybe I should strip it and
build a new box

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