Upgrade or not...

[coffee4me]

My second/spare computer is a 900Mhz Athlon Thunderbird (socket A). I was thinking of upgrading this puter, but how much upgrade would still be available ? I saw that Newegg still has some Socket A processors (a Duron), but I'm pretty sure my mobo doesn't support anything higher than 1.2
I don't have DDR memory on this computer. So I would have to buy a new motherboard too.

Like I said, it's only a spare computer. I just use it for Internet, an E-mail once in a while and watching some DVDs. No gaming...
Would an upgrade be a waste of money ?

By the way, what happened to AMD Socket A ? Did that change into something else now ?

Can't keep up with technology anymore....

 

[Elbatrop1]

They have changed sockets a couple times since Socket A. We are now on skt AM2.

I'd say that an upgrade would be a waste of money. The only thing I would think about is quantity of RAM. If you have 512MB, then that should be plenty for that system. RAM would help with overall system responsiveness.

 

[coffee4me]

Thank you for your reply.
I have 768 MB of (older) RAM in this system.

skt AM2 ?
Is that were you have 2 processors on 1 mobo ?

 

[Elbatrop1]

Thank you for your reply.
I have 768 MB of (older) RAM in this system.

skt AM2 ?
Is that were you have 2 processors on 1 mobo ?

Nope, that's where you have X2 (dual core) CPUs or Single core CPUs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_AM2