Sami Garzon wrote:

> My Computer is na old one. A PentiumI 166Mhz. I have 48Mg RAM, two
> 36.600bps Modem, a 16bit sound-card and  a simple video-card. I have 2
> HDD, one old and the second new. The system is working fine, but it's very
> slow (compared to stronger machines, like PII and PIII). In almost a
> month, I'm going to NY, the final stage in my traveling. There I wanted to
> buy another motherboard+processor to upgrade my system. The questions that
> bother me are:
> 1) As I will continue using the old cards (modems, graphics, sound...), is
> there a possibilty of InCompatibility between the (new) mother-board and
> the (old) 'daughter'-boards? I mean, maybe the old cards are designed to a
> specific architecture...
> 2) "As the case may be" (in words of ************), my old case, in spite
> of being a very bad designed one, I'' not thinking of changing it by now.
> My question: can the new mother-board be incompatible (not to fit) in my
> case?
> 3) Does somebody recommend a specific MoBo? I want it to work with a
> PentiumIII processor (maybe 450Mhz or higher). It doesn't need to have
> things OnBoard, but have to have a lot of slots and this kind of things.
> The price isn't a big issue.

Let me get it straight, you want a socket 370/slot 1 mobo in baby AT form (so
it fit in your case and power supply), no onboard stuff, lot of empty slots
for internal card.

I cannot find (I don't know any) mobo will meet those requirement. usually, if
you want a baby AT mobo with PII capacity, you will have to live with onboard
video (don't expect they are good), sound, network, modem (can't say anything
here, but I personaly don't trust onboard modem), stuff like that... The most
important, if it's a baby AT mobo, there is no room for lots of slot (that's
another reason why they have onboard stuff).  The only thing I can thing of
(close to what you want) is super-7 mobo which runs AMD K6/K6II/K6III, in AT
form, without onboard stuff, support AGP, ....

I would do more search to see if there is any mobo can fit in your "selection
statement".

Jun Qian

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