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Hi , I need to seek the group's knowledge and advice. Soo, it appears that I will be forced into upgrading my computer system from the 500 mhz machine to one of at least 1.5 gigahz. Since I built this one 3 years ago. motherboards and processors have rapidly changed, LOL! I'm soooo lost right now. I am on a "limited budget" so, I probably will have to get the motherboard first and the new DDR RAM later to finish. I already have the following: floppy drive, 10/100 Lan card, 2 hard drives (20 & 6 gigs), R/W CD ROM, New ATX case/ 2 fans. Below, please see the things I would "like" to have and then e-mail me, privately so as not to tie up the List. My e-mail address is : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Motherboard Needs: #1. Board needs to be able to run WIN 2000 and a version of Linux. (I'm still using Word Perfect 6.0 for DOS and I still have a few programs in Windows that I must run on that [EMAIL PROTECTED] O/S, LOL!) I probably will go with LibraNet Linux. #2. Although I don't plan to watch DVD's on my computer, I will need a good on-board graphics system with plans for a "kick-ass" video card (Suggestions?) later for some other work. #3. LOTS of slots for additional cards. #4. Slots for at least 2 gigs of DDR RAM but really want 3 gigs of DDR RAM, hehe. #5. RAID would be nice. :-) #6 At least 4 USB ports. #7. MUST have on-board sound, but, again maybe I'll add a "kick-ass" audio card later too. (Suggestions?) TIA, John --part1_187.150934df.2b646873_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Hi ,<BR> <BR> I need to seek the group's knowledge and advice. Soo, it appears that I will be forced into upgrading my computer system from the 500 mhz machine to one of at least 1.5 gigahz.<BR> <BR> Since I built this one 3 years ago. motherboards and processors have rapidly changed, LOL! I'm soooo lost right now.<BR> <BR> I am on a "limited budget" so, I probably will have to get the motherboard first and the new DDR RAM later to finish.<BR> <BR> I already have the following: floppy drive, 10/100 Lan card, 2 hard drives (20 & 6 gigs), R/W CD ROM, New ATX case/ 2 fans.<BR> <BR> Below, please see the things I would "like" to have and then e-mail me, privately so as not to tie up the List. My e-mail address is : [EMAIL PROTECTED]<BR> <BR> Motherboard Needs:<BR> <BR> #1. Board needs to be able to run WIN 2000 and a version of Linux. (I'm still using Word Perfect 6.0 for DOS and I still have a few programs in Windows that I must run on that [EMAIL PROTECTED] O/S, LOL!) I probably will go with LibraNet Linux.<BR> <BR> #2. Although I don't plan to watch DVD's on my computer, I will need a good on-board graphics system with plans for a "kick-ass" video card (Suggestions?) later for some other work.<BR> <BR> #3. LOTS of slots for additional cards.<BR> <BR> #4. Slots for at least 2 gigs of DDR RAM but really want <B><U>3</B></U> gigs of DDR RAM, hehe.<BR> <BR> #5. RAID would be nice. :-)<BR> <BR> #6 At least 4 USB ports.<BR> <BR> #7. MUST have on-board sound, but, again maybe I'll add a "kick-ass" audio card later too. (Suggestions?) <BR> <BR> TIA,<BR> <BR> John<BR> <BR> </FONT></HTML> --part1_187.150934df.2b646873_boundary--
