[vox] What to replace first?

[Zach Johnson]

Just be glad you did not get married in 1986, you could be still using 
a 386.

It sounds like replacing the MB will necessitate replacing the CPU
and vice versa.

The video card sort of follows suit, seeing that you might want to
spend your money on a PCIe based video card which is a different
slot that the PCI or AGP you likely have now.

Basicly I think you are screwed, and will likely need to replace 
it all at once, as well as RAM.


On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 01:08:41PM -0700, Richard Crawford wrote:
> I'm pretty happy with the computer my wife gave to me as a wedding present, 
> but it's starting to show its age.  In particular, it doesn't do as well 
> playing video as I would like -- Flash, .avi, .mpg, dvd's, and so on are all 
> painfully slow.
> 
> The system currently has the following setup:
> 
> hda1: 40GB
> hdb1: 120GB (/home is mounted here)
> 
> CPU's: dual-processor PIII, 866MHz.  Although I can never get the 2.6 kernel 
> to run the smp version on this, and I have to install each kernel with 
> the --noapic --nolapic option in order to get networking and USB connectivity 
> to work.
> 
> 512MB RAM
> 
> I don't have the specs for the video card.
> 
> Video card:  Jaton 3DForce2-MX GeForce2-MX 32MB AGP
> 
> I'd like to replace both the motherboard and CPU's and the video card, but 
> since I can't do both at once (monetary reasons), which one should I replace 
> first?
> 
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