Motherboard ?

[Wingnut_0]

I've been wanting to upgrade my system to a new processor if possible.  Either alone or a new processor/board combo (which will take longer for me to purchase).

I currently have a Compaq Presario 5070 350mhz K6-2.  But I cannot locate what type of mother board I have.

I've tried at least 1 d/l I found on Zdnet but it listed everything on my PC except what Board I had (it was just blank) and the Compaq site shows my model should have an Intel processor not AMD which leaves me totally confused.

Does anyone know of a program that will detect it or any other way for me to tell?

HELP!

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Wingnut
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The quality of the box matters little.  Success depends upon the man who sits in it  -  Baron Manfred von Richthofen

[This message has been edited by Wingnut_0 (edited 02-24-2001).]

[Staga]

SiSoft Sandra tells you about everything about your PC http://www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/sandra/

Mobos with inbuilt IDE-raid controllers rock

[MrSiD]

Just another lesson for buying a 'brand' computer.. It may come with nice advertisements and a cute box, but it does and will screw you.

Many of them require specific drivers, you get no information about what's inside, they often have integrated motherboards or something crazy like TNT2 on 1.1Ghz Athlon DDR board.. Build your own systems people =)

If I were you, I would go to the shop and buy myself a new Asus KT133A-Raid board and install it to the compaq case.. That way you'll get rid of the Compaq crap bios and all the nasties involved with them.

[Lephturn]

You have a compaq motherboard most likely.  These guys often do their own boards, or at lease contract somebody to do "special" ones for them.

What you need to be doing is measuring to see if you can fit a real mainboard into that case.  Probably not though.  I think your looking at a new case and mainboard to upgrade your CPU if a different slot or socket is required.  What sort of CPU are you running now?

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[Staga]

Looks like K6-2 350Mhz....    

Propably easiest way is buy a AMD Duron or more expencive Thunderbird CPU and a decent mobo like Abit's KT7A with or without Raid controller.

[This message has been edited by Staga (edited 02-24-2001).]

[Wingnut_0]

Well, on pricewatch the T-birds aren't that much more expensive...now I'll just have to decipher what their selling.

I don't want to get myself into a situation that I can't fit my add-on's on the board or use my Dimm modules, usw.

Thanks staga..going to try out this Sandra program.

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Wingnut
Luftjagerkorps
 

The quality of the box matters little.  Success depends upon the man who sits in it  -  Baron Manfred von Richthofen

[This message has been edited by Wingnut_0 (edited 02-24-2001).]

[bloom25]

An Asus A7V would never fit into a Compaq case, it's too big.  Even if it could it would likely run too hot ... just like all the Compaqs that have a *tiny* case fan and only a heatsink with no fan on the processor.

If you have a Compaq AMD k62 350 I'll bet you have a board using a Super Socket 7 (100 MHz fsb) and using either an ALi or SiS chipset.  I just did some work on a Compaq Presario 5070 which used what appeared to be a cobbled version of a Sis Chipset driven board.

I've seen SO much corner cutting recently that I feel guilty telling anyone to buy a name brand computer.  (Ex:  Dell selling 1.5 P4s with TNT2 M64 video cards built in!  Athlon 1200 DDR systems with 5400 Rpm hard drives!  Compaqs seem to have this "Shared system/video memory" setup which basically means they don't have an AGP port and system ram is always been used as slow video memory.)

If I were building a performance system right now I would use:  Asus A7V133 or A7M266 (DDR Chipset), 256 MB PC 133 Cas 2 (Crucial) on a7v133 or PC2100 DDR ram on the a7m, IBM 7200 rpm ATA 100 30 or 45 Gig drive (this is a MUST, absolutely the fastest, quietest drives yet made that aren't scsi), GeForce 2 GTS MX or Ultra, SB Live! Value or Xtreme Gamer, Thunderbird 1200 (133 Mhz FSB version), Alpha FOP32 cooler for Tbird, Sparkle or Antec 300W power supply in a well ventilated case.  I can guarantee that this system will outperform any name brand system.



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bloom25
THUNDERBIRDS

[MrSiD]

Bloom25: Compaq also has its EP/EX series which provides you with a standard mid-tower size box (the ones we have are built on a standard 815i board + Compaq bios..)

If he has one of those, he's home free.. If its the likes of EN soapbox, its better to throw it out of the window