upgrading my pc help [compaq; 4830; win95a]

[the_hittman]

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dunno why i didn't think of this before but i'm just gonna buy a new base unit and just connect my old monitor to the base unit. as far as i'm aware, my old monitor should fit the new base unit?

the cable for connecting the monitor to the base unit hasn't changed to usb or any thing has it? my monitor cable isn't usb.

anyone wanna help?

[me1000uk]

monitors aren't connected by usb

[LemmyUK]

But your monitor is pretty old.....I bet it won't be able to even keep up with the latest graphics card your new PC has.....

[bigGoof]

I forgot to mention that you can't update the bios for the Compaq. Compaq doesn't support that motherboard and it is a proprietary bios (not Award or AMI).

You old monitor will be fine. Monitors don't have speeds, they have bandwidth and if you have a monitor that works at 1024x768 with a refresh rate of > 60 Hz, then it will still work on the new card at that resoluton and that rate.

Your keyboard and mouse will also work fine as will any CD Rom drives/DVD drives, Floppy drives, Network cards, Sound cards, etc. (as long as they are PCI). I only bought the mobo, case, psw, video card and memory and am using everything else from the Compaq.

HTH

[LemmyUK]

Re my monitor post......what I meant was it probably wont have the capabilities to use the highest resolutions the new graphics card/onboard graphics can use....it will obviously still work........

[the_hittman]

my monitor is still pretty top spec. i just wanna upgrade it abit so i can surf the net and word process. when i go uni, i will buy a top spec pc.