The Official PC building thread!

I have a HP Pavilion 7915, it has a Pentimum 3 1.1 proc, ASUS board and 512 of ram, do not know the pin size of the proc, wanting to know what is the fastest proc I can put in.

 

With a Pentium 3 CPU, you might be better off upgrading the motherboard too as ddp suggests. In fact, he's covered everything I'd say, so follow his advice...

I agree with the outdated cliche of approaching thunder, although your reaction is a little dramatic, as always.

 

actually guys i had a read up on that old cliche and you know its only attributed to nephilim..............

As computer parts are more readily obtained and are easier to purchase than like 5 years ago, it doesnt matter if you get a new one or be like me and upgrade continually.All you really need are the essentials,BOARD, ram, caompatible graphics card more or less as ddp states.I went from an amd 2600+ to a p4 3.2 for around $500-.

 

For $300 after $200 in mail in rebates you can get an AMD Sempron based computer with printer and CRT monitor form Best Buy, I would really just start there.

And, to admerr, denial is not generally dignified with response.

 

@ Reasons? : when some one does you the curtesy of responding to you properly maybe you would have the curtesy of responding back properly.
Cant you spell my name or is this another form of rudeness you are showing us.

ASKING YOU FOR YOUR REASONS? IS PRETTY POINTLESS ISNT IT.

 

I have 128mb Gforce PCI card, my chip can run at max of 1.5 and stable at 1.2, just trying to update and upgrade this on for the wife, in middle of building one for me. Just trying to get help, with out replacing the board, cpomuter not used for much but online games,mainly pogo

 

Sorry if my time is a little more valuable than to backtrach different threads I've seen to provide you with links and quotes. Maybe not this thread in particular, but as a whole, I see it alot. I apologize for not spelling your name correct, it wasn't on purpose. But I will thank-you in advance, Andmerr, for being reasonable, and thinking back to all those posts you've seen. Hopefully therefore remebering what I'm talking about. You'll see it, if you haven't.

Anyway, this is kinda the Official PC Building thread, not worthless squabble thread.

 

So let's not start any.

With prebuilt computers it's the whole 'peace of mind' vibe, especially if you get special offers on them, but really, any self-respecting gamer would head above the sempron range and to the Athlon64.

 

ddp, just trying to find out what is the biggest proc in this comp, without upgrading board

 

About what you've got really. With Pentium III chips over 1.0Ghz, it's more worthwhile upping to a later 478 or 775 motherboard.

 

I am going with sammorris one this one, it's time for a serious update. You'll find too many compatibility issues too soon, and will have to move up.

Right now, you should get a 939 or 775 board with a AMD Sempron or low end P4 respectively. Then go from there. Semprons are like $60 and the board isn't too much more, add it all up it'll be $500 for a up-to-date XP PC, but then you'll be screwed for vista.

Vista will require 1GB of RAM a 128MB PCI-E Graphics board and a 64 bit CPU, along with a SATA drive that supports NCQ, and a monitor that supports HDCP.

I would suggest saving money until mid 2006 and gettign a vista ready PC loaded with vista. Unless you buy a new PC every year, only the blind buy PCs now, cause they won't be ready. That's exactly what they want, your old comp you just bought trashed and you have to buy one that supports vista.

You'll regret any other choice, and you may regret building your own comp unless your target price is above $1000, it won't save you any money, and nothing is warrented.

You came here for suggestions regarding a computer, the above is probally pretty good advice. Anyone agree?

 

Vista will definitely require a monster PC, but just because Vista will come out Mid 2006, doesn't mean that anyone who needs a new PC needs to fork out on a big one just fore that. XP will still be on sale after Vista's release - you might as well get a cheap XP machine now.

 

Yeah, if you are using a P3 right now, a $300 Sempron winXP machine would be a good investment. That's $50 a month for comfortable computing and then the printer can be used, the HD too with a PCI adaptor to it's connector, you won't get sata on a 300 comp. If that's steep, 50 a month until vista, then definitely just wait.

 

Or, if you're not a gamer, $15 a month for two years. You'd get away with that. My old P3 450 lasted me 3 1/2 years before it needed an upgraded GPU.

 

"can get a p4 celeron"
A what?

 

I know what you mean but a Pentium 4 is strictly not a celeron. I'm sure you know better than that, but it just came across a little funny.