Upgrading my AOpen Ax6bc!

atower2 · 07-09-2005, 12:36 AM

Yes I know it is a dinosaur but it has served well and I got it for free. I have already done several upgrades to it. Like first I over clocked it and now I am at 333mhz. I added more memory so now I am at 512 mb memory installed a western digital 120gb hdrive ( which motherboard is only capable of 30 gb but the price on the 120 was awesome). creative audigy sound card, windows xp professional, plextor52/24/52A, Lg 52x32x52x and room for one more

Now the Question! I want to move up but I want to use everything that I already have except the motherboard, is that possible? I was thinking because I still wanted to use my memory cards that are pc 133 double sided 256 mb that the highest I could go would be a pentium III. I was Thinking of maybe a DFI CA64-TC motherboard. Am I going to have to switch power supplies? Mine works quite well and is very quiet but I do keep the cover off of it because I use it to fix other peoples hard drives and program problems with it. My power supply is 235w AOpen with noise killer 3.3v,+5vsb,+5v,-5V,+12v and -12v.Also would I have to re partion my hard drive or will the new motherboard do that. I have alot of music on their that is hard to find for karaoke that I wanted to keep but I wanted full capacity of my hard drive ( about 12gb of karaoke music).

atower2 · 07-09-2005, 10:02 AM

What I was going to do was use a 1.20 ghz Tualatin microprocessor,Vantec aeroflow VA4-7245 with a cooling after and NEC-ND3520A 16x DVD double layer burner,DVD+RW,OEM. I have them ordered but am waitng to see if this will work properly with what I have. If someone will let me know I will be most appreciative.

07-09-2005, 12:36 AM	#1 (permalink)
atower2 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Georgia Posts: 2 OS: XP	Upgrading my AOpen Ax6bc! Yes I know it is a dinosaur but it has served well and I got it for free. I have already done several upgrades to it. Like first I over clocked it and now I am at 333mhz. I added more memory so now I am at 512 mb memory installed a western digital 120gb hdrive ( which motherboard is only capable of 30 gb but the price on the 120 was awesome). creative audigy sound card, windows xp professional, plextor52/24/52A, Lg 52x32x52x and room for one more Now the Question! I want to move up but I want to use everything that I already have except the motherboard, is that possible? I was thinking because I still wanted to use my memory cards that are pc 133 double sided 256 mb that the highest I could go would be a pentium III. I was Thinking of maybe a DFI CA64-TC motherboard. Am I going to have to switch power supplies? Mine works quite well and is very quiet but I do keep the cover off of it because I use it to fix other peoples hard drives and program problems with it. My power supply is 235w AOpen with noise killer 3.3v,+5vsb,+5v,-5V,+12v and -12v.Also would I have to re partion my hard drive or will the new motherboard do that. I have alot of music on their that is hard to find for karaoke that I wanted to keep but I wanted full capacity of my hard drive ( about 12gb of karaoke music). __________________ Country girls like me have more time to play with their putters but less money to do it with. Last edited by atower2; 07-09-2005 at 12:50 AM. Reason: too tired to pay attention!

07-09-2005, 10:02 AM	#2 (permalink)
atower2 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Georgia Posts: 2 OS: XP	I needed to know before I buy parts What I was going to do was use a 1.20 ghz Tualatin microprocessor,Vantec aeroflow VA4-7245 with a cooling after and NEC-ND3520A 16x DVD double layer burner,DVD+RW,OEM. I have them ordered but am waitng to see if this will work properly with what I have. If someone will let me know I will be most appreciative. __________________ Country girls like me have more time to play with their putters but less money to do it with.