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Can someone help me find a Motherboard? Please

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gatesofhell

Junior Member
Hi everybody I was hoping someone could help me out in finding a decent motherboard that is relatively cheap like around $100. willing to pay a little more

My Current setup is:

Intel D865PERLL ATX-DDR400-Sound-F800-8xAGP-Lan
Intel Pentium 4-3.2 GHz CPU 512K 800FSB
256MB GeForce4 5600 8x / TV Out / DVI / Dual Head
2 x 512 MB DDR400 RAM PC3200
LG DVD/CDRW Combo Drive Black Colour
LG 8X DVD Writer Black
1.44Mb Sony floppy drive
Maxtor 120GB IDE HDD (S-ATA 150, 8MB, 7200 RPM)
wireless internet card

I also have logitech 5.1 speakers so something with resonable sound would be good, I may end up installing a sound card

I Want to upgrade to:

SAPPHIRE Radeon X800GTO2 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16
GeIL DDR 2 Ultra Series 1GB DDR2 533 (PC2 4300) Unbuffered (X2)


I have never done anything like this before so I am unsure what I have to do. I dont think the installation of the hardware will too tricky its just the software and Bios stuff im not to sure about.
I can use my old hard drive without wiping it clean of all its data right?

I do plan to try overclocking so something that allows me(a rookie willing to learn) to do that would also be nice.

I would also like to be able to upgrade in the future so a motherboard that allows me to do that would be nice also

Any reccomendations or help with my upgrades would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
 
Hi,
I see you have 865 chipset with DDR400. You cannot update to DDR2 if your board supports only DDR1, except you have new 865 chipset.

2 Gb of RAM is always recommended today with new applications and games like Photoshop or Battle Field 2,...

The best video card I think GF6800GT or ATI X850XT platinium AGP version. You can run anything with this.

Good luck
 
Are you going to upgrade your processor as well? If not, those chioces for ram and the video card wont work with your current proc.
 
Dunno what you mean?!!!
If you don't want to change the motherboard, it doesn't matter at all.

The rest part for upgrade path is your RAM DDR1 or Video Card AGP and then Sound Card.

Processor you can upgrade to 3.4 max, but it's very difficult to find it nowadays.
 
Originally posted by: gatesofhell
oh ah heck, just aswell i didnt go and buy a new motherboard then, how do you know that that proccesor wont work?
Click to expand...

I presume he knows it won't work because he knows it won't work.

Get it?
 
Lame. OK
I don't where you at. But one time I visit Singapore, it's very cheap compared to Nord America stuffs.

About 100$ I don't get it. But I just have MSI with ATI crossfire edition. It seems working fine. Need time to test it more. If you need it can run only no matter its stability, Nforce4 mainboard is for you. Choose Asus, Abit, Gigabyte, or MSI if you like. And you will buy a new processor like Athlon64 3800 at least (Athlon64 3500 is fine too). Good luck!!!
 
Looks like you might be caught trying to straddle the fence. Newegg only lists one board with pci-e that supports your s478 processor, and it doesn't support ddr2... I think, but I'm not entirely sure, that intel transitioned to ddr2 at the same time they went to the new socketT processors...

You could go with this Asrock board or something similar-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157075

so that you could use your existing processor and ram with a pci-e vidcard... but I don't think you'll find a board that has s478, ddr2 and pci-e all at the same time...

Hopefully some guys who are more Intel oriented will repond with something definitive...

 
Thanks for your help people.

Whats the deal with DDR and DDR2. I see alot of people still using DDR over DDR2. Is there a reason for this? would I be better off keeping my current memory if I was to upgrade to an AMD processor set up?


And Mset the reason I asked that question was that if you havnt figured it out already I dont really know anything about this subject and was simply asking so that I could in the future look for motherboards on my own. So thanks for stating the obvious but comments like that really arnt helpful 🙂
 
Mainly because DDR is the only memory working with AMD CPUs and DDR2 is being "Intel-exclusive" for the moment (that will change in the next year with AMD M2 socket). That's the reason why DDR is still used. And DDR2 isn't offering that much of an upgrade in performance (that's what I guess from reviews).
 
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