My motherboard died (well, just the AGP slot and one memory slot, but no AGP is enough to warrent a replacement), and I decided to buy a new MB/CPU combination (I now have ASUS CUV4X + P3-700), because if I bought just a new board, I'd feel like I wasted money.
Because I want to upgrade on the cheap, I'd rather use my existing 640MB of SDR RAM. So I decided to buy an AthlonXP (cheapest I can find, which is 2100+) and a Gigabyte GA-7ZXE. This should still provide a decent increase in performance over my existing P3.
But I vaguely remember about compatibility problems of graphics cards and the KT133A, on which the board is based. Is that true? Do these problems still exist? I have a GeForce3 now, but a Radeon may be in my future.
BTW, I'm sad that with this upgrade I'll finally have to give up my Sound Blaster AWE64 (ISA).
Because I want to upgrade on the cheap, I'd rather use my existing 640MB of SDR RAM. So I decided to buy an AthlonXP (cheapest I can find, which is 2100+) and a Gigabyte GA-7ZXE. This should still provide a decent increase in performance over my existing P3.
But I vaguely remember about compatibility problems of graphics cards and the KT133A, on which the board is based. Is that true? Do these problems still exist? I have a GeForce3 now, but a Radeon may be in my future.
BTW, I'm sad that with this upgrade I'll finally have to give up my Sound Blaster AWE64 (ISA).