Major Upgrade -> Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 ++ AMD Athlon64 3000+ S939 Winchester ++ MSI GeForce NX6600GT-TD128E DDR PCIe

freefred

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My current setup is :

Duron 1600
ASRock K7S41GX
Onboard graphic chipset - Real 3D (32 MB shared memory)
Onboard Realtek sound card
256 DDR 266 + 512 DDR 400
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Hitachi 7K250 Deskstar 160GB ATA100
Excelstor ATA 40 GB

After reading the forum and looking at some reviews, Ive decided to buy these components :

Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 Sockel 939 85?
AMD Athlon64 3000+ 1800MHz Box S939 Winchester 137 ?
128MB MSI GeForce NX6600GT-TD128E DDR PCIe 170 ?

If I switch to this motherboard, will I still be able to use my old stuff ?

The spec from gigabyte site :

GA-K8NF-9 :

Memory type Dual Channel DDR 400/333/266/200
Memory socket DDR*4
Max. Memory 4 GB
Graphics interface PCI-Express X16
PCI-Express X16 (X8) 1
PCI-Express X1 (X2,X4) 2
PCI 3
ISA slot 0
AMR/CNR 0/0
VGA N/A
RAID Function Yes
LAN CICADA 8201 phy
Audio ALC 850
Codec channel 8
IDE ATA 2*PATA133 / 4*SATA

PATA and DDR support are there, so it should be compatible right ?

PS
I was thinking about buying an AGP 6600 GT until I saw that the AGP version is like 50? more expensive than the PCIe version. Might as well buy a new mobo since it costs me but 35? more :)