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vsp · 11-30-2005, 07:05 AM

As far as the motherboard and 1700+ go, the 1.05. (note trailing dot) revision has been known to accept faster Palominos with a BIOS update. 1.04 and 1.05, well, there are LOTS of conflicting reports, and I don't want to throw money into a questionable update that probably wouldn't speed my system up all that much. At this point, I'm not looking to speed things up as much as I am looking to obtain a little room for growth.

Current RAM = 640MB (256, 256, 128 SIMMs in that order).

If I'm buying a new motherboard, new RAM and a new drive, hell, I might as well leave this one as-is and build a whole new box, and I don't know that I want to pump out quite that much cash right now. (Cue the cameras watching me trolling eBay for old $100-ish laptops.)

11-30-2005, 07:05 AM	#4
vsp Syndrome of a Down Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: West Chester Posts: 1,367	As far as the motherboard and 1700+ go, the 1.05. (note trailing dot) revision has been known to accept faster Palominos with a BIOS update. 1.04 and 1.05, well, there are LOTS of conflicting reports, and I don't want to throw money into a questionable update that probably wouldn't speed my system up all that much. At this point, I'm not looking to speed things up as much as I am looking to obtain a little room for growth. Current RAM = 640MB (256, 256, 128 SIMMs in that order). If I'm buying a new motherboard, new RAM and a new drive, hell, I might as well leave this one as-is and build a whole new box, and I don't know that I want to pump out quite that much cash right now. (Cue the cameras watching me trolling eBay for old $100-ish laptops.)