Acquired Older Mobo

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Alright, heres the story. I have acquired a Mother Board, KT333 Dragon Ultra. Its a pretty older one. From 2002 i guess. It says it supports up to AthlonXP, Athlon and Duron (up to 2200+(socket A/462)). Now, i have yet to look more into it, to see what it actually has. but before i even waste my time with it, is this even a dcent motherboard with a decent available line of processors for it. Should i try updating and adding more RAM and putting XP on it, or just buy a new mobo with CPu because this ones too old. Thanks for the help.
 
I remember that mobo! I wouldn't bother spending money on that mobo, but if you do have the parts to run it right now, it'd make a decent system. Probably one of the better SocketA boards.
 
Get like 512MB and XP will be fine. Dont spend alot of money on it though. A Geforce2 will be fine for it, maybe overclock it a bit.
 
thats a soyo board isnt it? those guys ripped me off haha i bought this board FREE after rebates and never got the money :)
 
Well, i am not paying for it. I manage a small network for a company, and am always trying to salvage, repair etc. I came across this computer in the back of their older office and realized that it still works. It has a 128Mb PCI-E video card, 512Mb Ram. But i cant make out what CPU it is. The bios doesnt say exactly what model it is, and the O/S is crashed, so i have to reload it. I just wondering if its good enough for a decent workstation that uses alot of network apps.
 
Should be good enough... Get an OS on it and get PC Wizard or CPUID and see what CPU it is. Or just take off the heatsink and see or get the socket type.
 
well, got an O/S on it, then saw what it had. AMD Duron 1.3Ghz with 100FSB and 128L1 Cache and 64L2 Cache. I dont think its any good. It only has 256Mb Ram on it. The MoBo didnt even come with an onboard Ethernet Port, and it still had a modem on the last PCI slot. And it a AUI port where a plug was connected that had an ethernet port. I gave it to a friend of mine with XP Pro and Office 2003. Just because i didnt want it, but i figured its good enough just to use for a regular home PC.

Thats not even that bad. From my work, i pulled out the closet, 1 P3 computer and get this "3" P2 Computers. with 2 sticks of 64Mb Ram. The P2 CPU's ahd MMX, ha ha ha!!
 
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