A couple of months back, I was given lots of thoughts on this list about a motherboard upgrade, and decided to wait a bit. I'm now thinking of doing something this Winter and would appreciate advice. My present rig has an SiS-741 with an AMD Athlon XP2000+ processor at 1666 MHz. I have 1GiB memory.
I'm looking at spending around £120+ on a bundle. The old motherboard will go into an older box 'as is'. The only major benefit I want is when rendering video takes (using Kino most likely). All the other things I do such as office apps, internet, e-mail etc are fairly undemanding, so I'm not expecting to benefit a lot there. I don't do gaming (sad). The range of bundles I looked at online is quite bewildering. I'm attracted to the Asrock G31M-S bundled with a dual core Intel 2.7GHz CPU and 2GiB ram, but I'm really not bothered which board, chipset or processor I get. Hardware wise, I want 2xSATA and 1xIDE ... other than that, I can manage with whatever I get. I use firewire for video, but can continue happily with my pci card. The box it is going in has a floppy drive - but I haven't used it in a while ... if provision is there, I'll connect it, but not vital. I replaced the power supply recently, so 24 pin ATX is available. Any thoughts? And any favoured suppliers? I might look on e-bay, but if there are problems, you're a bit in the lap of the gods. Although for the most part I've been well served. Regards, Barry Drake. -- Sent from my Dell Netbook using Ubuntu - the window-free environment that gives me real fresh air. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
