I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use
photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally. Now I want to upgrade to
something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and
Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo. I like to stick to ATA though as
I can not afford two hard drives right now.
I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford.
Something cheaper but very stable combination.
bigdaddy wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use
> photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally. Now I want to upgrade to
> something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and
> Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo. I like to stick to ATA though as
> I can not afford two hard drives right now.
>
> I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford.
> Something cheaper but very stable combination.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions.
Limiting yourself to using an AGP card will greatly effect your upgrade.
If you stick with an AMD processor, I think the ****hest you will be
able to upgrade will be to socket 939, and even then you will be quite
limited on your board selection. Socket 939 boards are already being
phased out for socket AM2.
Also, your memory will be limited to DDR which has gone up in price over
DDR2. I would seriously rethink keeping the video card. Many of the
newest motherboards still support ATA, or you can use an add on card.
I don't know what model video card you have, but there is more than
likely an inexpensive PCIe card that will out perform it. Probably the
best to wait until you can afford the PCIe video card.
> bigdaddy wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use
>> photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally. Now I want to upgrade to
>> something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and
>> Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo. I like to stick to ATA though as
>> I can not afford two hard drives right now.
>>
>> I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford.
>> Something cheaper but very stable combination.
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestions.
>
> Limiting yourself to using an AGP card will greatly effect your upgrade.
> If you stick with an AMD processor, I think the ****hest you will be
> able to upgrade will be to socket 939, and even then you will be quite
> limited on your board selection. Socket 939 boards are already being
> phased out for socket AM2.
>
No, they make several AM2 boards that have AGP slots still. this looks
like a decent one.
> Also, your memory will be limited to DDR which has gone up in price over
> DDR2. I would seriously rethink keeping the video card. Many of the
> newest motherboards still support ATA, or you can use an add on card.
>
> I don't know what model video card you have, but there is more than
> likely an inexpensive PCIe card that will out perform it. Probably the
> best to wait until you can afford the PCIe video card.
>
> Chris
I've got a couple of Geforce 6100 AM2 boards that I watch HDTV on using
the onboard video. Works fine. Almost everyone makes 6100 MB's in all
sizes.
Wes Newell wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:29:18 -0500, c wrote:
>
>> bigdaddy wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use
>>> photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally. Now I want to upgrade to
>>> something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and
>>> Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo. I like to stick to ATA though as
>>> I can not afford two hard drives right now.
>>>
>>> I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford.
>>> Something cheaper but very stable combination.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your suggestions.
>> Limiting yourself to using an AGP card will greatly effect your upgrade.
>> If you stick with an AMD processor, I think the ****hest you will be
>> able to upgrade will be to socket 939, and even then you will be quite
>> limited on your board selection. Socket 939 boards are already being
>> phased out for socket AM2.
>>
> No, they make several AM2 boards that have AGP slots still. this looks
> like a decent one.
>
> http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.as...NF3-VSTA&s=AM2
>
>> Also, your memory will be limited to DDR which has gone up in price over
>> DDR2. I would seriously rethink keeping the video card. Many of the
>> newest motherboards still support ATA, or you can use an add on card.
>>
>> I don't know what model video card you have, but there is more than
>> likely an inexpensive PCIe card that will out perform it. Probably the
>> best to wait until you can afford the PCIe video card.
>>
>> Chris
>
> I've got a couple of Geforce 6100 AM2 boards that I watch HDTV on using
> the onboard video. Works fine. Almost everyone makes 6100 MB's in all
> sizes.
>
My bad. I just glanced at Abit's site and did not see an AGP AM2 board.
I think I would still go your route with the onboard and save my money
for a PCIe card. The ability to upgrade in the future will be much
better, but that depends on the OP's desire to keep his original card.
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:53:40 -0500, c <c@me.org> wrote:
>Wes Newell wrote:
>> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:29:18 -0500, c wrote:
>>
>>> bigdaddy wrote:
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>> I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use
>>>> photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally. Now I want to upgrade to
>>>> something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and
>>>> Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo. I like to stick to ATA though as
>>>> I can not afford two hard drives right now.
>>>>
>>>> I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford.
>>>> Something cheaper but very stable combination.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your suggestions.
>>> Limiting yourself to using an AGP card will greatly effect your upgrade.
>>> If you stick with an AMD processor, I think the ****hest you will be
>>> able to upgrade will be to socket 939, and even then you will be quite
>>> limited on your board selection. Socket 939 boards are already being
>>> phased out for socket AM2.
>>>
>> No, they make several AM2 boards that have AGP slots still. this looks
>> like a decent one.
>>
>> http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.as...NF3-VSTA&s=AM2
>>
>>> Also, your memory will be limited to DDR which has gone up in price over
>>> DDR2. I would seriously rethink keeping the video card. Many of the
>>> newest motherboards still support ATA, or you can use an add on card.
>>>
>>> I don't know what model video card you have, but there is more than
>>> likely an inexpensive PCIe card that will out perform it. Probably the
>>> best to wait until you can afford the PCIe video card.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>
>> I've got a couple of Geforce 6100 AM2 boards that I watch HDTV on using
>> the onboard video. Works fine. Almost everyone makes 6100 MB's in all
>> sizes.
>>
>
>
>My bad. I just glanced at Abit's site and did not see an AGP AM2 board.
>I think I would still go your route with the onboard and save my money
>for a PCIe card. The ability to upgrade in the future will be much
>better, but that depends on the OP's desire to keep his original card.
>
>Chris
Thanks all for your suggestions. The idea of using Matrox card etc.
was to minimize the expenses. But as some good folks suggested, it is
better to find a m/board with onboard Video. But I do not know which
is a better proposition, on board Video or separate Video Card. But I
still wants to retain my ATA Hard Disks because of the huge DATA I
have on them.
bigdaddy wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:53:40 -0500, c <c@me.org> wrote:
>
>> Wes Newell wrote:
>>> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:29:18 -0500, c wrote:
>>>
>>>> bigdaddy wrote:
>>>>> Hi all
>>>>>
>>>>> I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use
>>>>> photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally. Now I want to upgrade to
>>>>> something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and
>>>>> Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo. I like to stick to ATA though as
>>>>> I can not afford two hard drives right now.
>>>>>
>>>>> I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford.
>>>>> Something cheaper but very stable combination.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for your suggestions.
>>>> Limiting yourself to using an AGP card will greatly effect your upgrade.
>>>> If you stick with an AMD processor, I think the ****hest you will be
>>>> able to upgrade will be to socket 939, and even then you will be quite
>>>> limited on your board selection. Socket 939 boards are already being
>>>> phased out for socket AM2.
>>>>
>>> No, they make several AM2 boards that have AGP slots still. this looks
>>> like a decent one.
>>>
>>> http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.as...NF3-VSTA&s=AM2
>>>
>>>> Also, your memory will be limited to DDR which has gone up in price over
>>>> DDR2. I would seriously rethink keeping the video card. Many of the
>>>> newest motherboards still support ATA, or you can use an add on card.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know what model video card you have, but there is more than
>>>> likely an inexpensive PCIe card that will out perform it. Probably the
>>>> best to wait until you can afford the PCIe video card.
>>>>
>>>> Chris
>>> I've got a couple of Geforce 6100 AM2 boards that I watch HDTV on using
>>> the onboard video. Works fine. Almost everyone makes 6100 MB's in all
>>> sizes.
>>>
>>
>> My bad. I just glanced at Abit's site and did not see an AGP AM2 board.
>> I think I would still go your route with the onboard and save my money
>> for a PCIe card. The ability to upgrade in the future will be much
>> better, but that depends on the OP's desire to keep his original card.
>>
>> Chris
>
> Thanks all for your suggestions. The idea of using Matrox card etc.
> was to minimize the expenses. But as some good folks suggested, it is
> better to find a m/board with onboard Video. But I do not know which
> is a better proposition, on board Video or separate Video Card. But I
> still wants to retain my ATA Hard Disks because of the huge DATA I
> have on them.
Remember though, a board with onboard video can be upgraded to use the
separate card later on. All you have to do is disable the onboard video.
This would be the logical thing to do since eventually you will probably
want to upgrade your video anyway. There are some inexpensive PCIe video
cards out there that will be a big upgrade from what you have now. More
than likely, even the onboard is an upgrade already, but that's an
assumption since we don't know which model vdeo card you have.
Again with the hard drives, just find a board that supports IDE and SATA
or you can get an inexpensive IDE PCI card to use until you upgrrade the
drives.
I'm assuming you power supply is a 20 pin, not 24 pin power connection, like
newer motherboards use.
Anyway the Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 motherboard has both AGP and PCI-Express
graphics slots and uses DDR memory. http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.as...Dual-SATA2&s=n
Only available on EBay, usually cheap.
All you would need to do is get a socket 939 CPU
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> Hi all
>
> I am running Abit Kr7a with AMD 1700 CPU and 1 GB Memory. I use
> photoshop and Adobe premier occasionally. Now I want to upgrade to
> something better, but using my Hard Drives, TV Card, Lan Card and
> Matrox Grafic Card from my old mobo. I like to stick to ATA though as
> I can not afford two hard drives right now.
>
> I do not want top of the range Mobo and CPU, which I can not afford.
> Something cheaper but very stable combination.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions.
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