Hans Stoner

I soo confused...

so my mother board took a lil shit....my HDD is new, and my 8xAGP video card works, and 1gb ddr400 is good, wireless card good.... dvd+-rw good...



So i bascally wanted a new mobo and processor and still use everything else...

i was thing athlon64x2

or core 2 duo or is it core duo??

either way, I want a dual core....

i was looking on newegg and found this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157107

is ASRock mobo, good??

I wanted ASUS and AMD, but all i get is bad reviews for ASUS,,,

well let me know

clickwir

If you want to reuse your AGP card and ram you are probably going to be looking at a slightly older AMD 939 board. Which are still awesome and yes support dual core AMD chips.

I don't think Core 2 Duo's can support the old DDR400, and even if they did you'd be bottlenecking your cpu so much it wouldn't be worth it to have bought it.

You might be looking at something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157097
ASRock is Asus's child company. Not as good as Asus, on the hole, but decent.

edit: depending on if you play vid games or not, you'll have a lot more choices (and can still keep the DDR400) if you upgrade to PCI-E

Hans Stoner

I don't use my pc for gaming...
I don't mind, getting a new video card either....
ram , well maybe. not trying to spend a fortune....just trying to get my desktop up and running, and running faster...

photo work, music....introweb...

clickwir

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130025 Vid card: $64 (has a MiR)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813186115 Mobo: $60 (has a MiR)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103052 CPU: $80
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835186009 CPU fan: $15

Total: $219

Plus like $30 of mail in rebates if you want to. So $189 + S/H

LambZero

asrock bites, know a few people that those died, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130064 its a mATX but its MSI nice brand

clickwir

If he's going to get new ram then sure, we've got many more options. But for $220, what I put wasn't bad. But yes for a bit more we could get him over to a DDR2 board and an AM2 socket.

LambZero

but i suggest right now if you could some how wait a few more months to upgrade? DDR3 memory is soon to be out along with amds AM3 socket, when ever they port over a cpu from a different socket it usually gets cheaper AKA my 3800+ x2 (no longer have, gave to a friend) was $300 when it first came out, then reduced to 200 then ported to the am2 socket at 120 and now i cant even find that model its only 4400 and up

clickwir

AM3 chips will be useable in AM2 boards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_AM3

Unless he's really wheeling for performance, he'd be wiser to save some bucks and go with AM2 and have an upgrade path or save even more and go with 939 with less of an upgrade path.

edit: AM3 isn't for another year yet anyway

qtiger

asrock = asus


Asus = the best mobo mfgr by far.

qtiger

Absolutely not, do not buy a Foxconn motherboard. You will regret it.