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  1. July 18th, 2003, 07:34 AM #1
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    Question Motherboard Upgrade or Not

    I currently have a SY-K7VTA Pro Motherboard and I have a chance to purchase a ELITEGROUP K7S5A-PRO Socket A Motherboard at a good price. I would like to know if it would be to my advantage to make the switch and what would be the plus side if I change
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  2. July 18th, 2003, 10:18 AM #2
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    Do you have a prticular reason why you are planning to upgrade (added features, problems etc.)? Or is someone just trying to sell?
    Nimo N152B (AMD R5, W11H) and plenty of other legacy systems :-)
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    I belive that I'm restricted to a Athlon 1.3GHz CPU and it looks like the ELITEGROUP K7S5A-PRO can take a much larger one!
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    Your current board supports up to an XP 2100 (see specs here)
    Nimo N152B (AMD R5, W11H) and plenty of other legacy systems :-)
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    The advantage the ECS has over what you are using is ddr and the ECS will take up a 2600+ 266 cpu. The ECS you mention I believe has usb2 support also. I have both boards (ECS K7S5A non pro, Soyo K7VTA) in a couple of my older computers, and they have been good (basic) main boards. It depends I guess, on what you are wanting to do with your computer. I have an AMD 2100+, 768 meg pc100 in the SOYO and an AMD 1700+, 512 meg pc2100 on the ECS, I cannot tell much difference between them. I would give the advantage in this case to the ECS.
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