i have an abit bp-6 dual socket 370 motherboard i have given up on, its been a PIMA the whole time i've had it, its constantly freezing up, BSOD's and you name it. I had two celeron 500's in it with an AGP 1x/2x 8 mb i740 video card and 256 mb pc-133 memory. other cards that were installed in system are an antique 1995 sb-16 ISA sound card, a diamond supra max ISA modem, an SMC pci 10/100 nic.
what i am looking for is a NON-ABIT motherboard, absolutely will never buy another ABIT product in my life to replace this board, would like a dual socket board if possible, but will sacrifice one cpu just to get a working system again.
I have a PCI modem i can replace the ISA modem with but would like to get a motherboard with integrated sound and if there is a good mb that has a good integrated video card that does 3d accelartion(?) i would possibly go for it.
I'm looking to spend no more than $75 tops with around $50 being the price range i'm looking for cause I need a new power supply also to go with this. basically i want a new board to put my existing components into without spending a whole lot of money.
Any advice on what kind of boards are out there these days that would accomodate my needs I would greatly appreciate. I've been out of the hardware loop for years and just dont know where to start anymore or who is good, who is bad, what to avoid, etc.
Also, one other small feature I would like to have on this motherboard is the capability to later upgrade the cpu to something a little newer and faster if possible, although from what i've read the socket 370 is basically dead and is being phased out with the socket 478 and this new socket 752 or whatever the heck it is.
Thanks very much in advance,
ncbadboy2004
what i am looking for is a NON-ABIT motherboard, absolutely will never buy another ABIT product in my life to replace this board, would like a dual socket board if possible, but will sacrifice one cpu just to get a working system again.
I have a PCI modem i can replace the ISA modem with but would like to get a motherboard with integrated sound and if there is a good mb that has a good integrated video card that does 3d accelartion(?) i would possibly go for it.
I'm looking to spend no more than $75 tops with around $50 being the price range i'm looking for cause I need a new power supply also to go with this. basically i want a new board to put my existing components into without spending a whole lot of money.
Any advice on what kind of boards are out there these days that would accomodate my needs I would greatly appreciate. I've been out of the hardware loop for years and just dont know where to start anymore or who is good, who is bad, what to avoid, etc.
Also, one other small feature I would like to have on this motherboard is the capability to later upgrade the cpu to something a little newer and faster if possible, although from what i've read the socket 370 is basically dead and is being phased out with the socket 478 and this new socket 752 or whatever the heck it is.
Thanks very much in advance,
ncbadboy2004