InWin Q500 ATX case from the PII forum....Dual CPU...Graphics
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From slyglif
Subject Re: Upgrading from 166 system
>> You would need to get a new motherboard, chip, RAM, and possibly ATX case. If Photoshop is your main application, I would consider running also getting WinNT and 2 P2-233's or better, since Photoshop will benefit a lot from SMP.
Here are some ballpark figures from one of my vendors:
Motherboard: Asus P2L97-DS $340
w/ 1 P2-233... $660..... w/ 2 P2-233... $980
w/ 1 P2-266 ... $755..... w/ 2 P2-266 ... $1170
w/ 1 P2-300 ... $900..... w/ 2 P2-300 ... $1460
w/ 1 P2-333 ... $1125..... w/ 2 P2-333 ... $1910
RAM: ... 128 MB SDRAM $285
Case: Inwin Q500X Full-Tower ATX Case $120
(This is the case I use on all systems. Lots of room for
extra fans, and plenty of room for drives).
>> What I'm after is to get most processing power without spending absolute top dollar or having to just buy a new computer.
>> I might want to go with a single processor for now, then buy a matched set of 333's at a later date. Also, I assume that you are using UW SCSI for your disks? If not, you may just want to actually get a new system, since a couple of Seagate Cheetah drives (which are options for a some Dell's and Gateway's) would increase your performance a lot. <<
>>In article <MWEAdxrS9GA.229@newsgroups.intel.com>, dsprow@erols.com says... Well, after reading a few other posts, I realized that I should explain that upgrading the processor as stated seems the next step to me. I have 14 gigs of hard drive space, with substantial amounts set aside for scratch disk space for programs like Photoshop and abouit 1 gig set aside for Virtual Memory. 128 megs of EDO SRAM. And I need get these damn thing moving faster! on these large graphic files.<<
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