quick idea of what mobo/priocessor to suggest??

[dbarton]

Any tips or suggestions or advice? Asus Commando? Asus p5b? Others?


Can I still use my basic AGP video card?
Would like to have some IDE slots/PATA drive support too

What Intel CPU is the good speed/cost balance now?
thnx

 

[f4phantom2500]

What's your budget? What are you doing with the computer? What processor do you want? I highly doubt you'll find a good OCing C2D board with an AGP slot, specifically what AGP card are you using? If you don't do anything graphically intensive maybe consider a G965 board and use the integrated until you can afford a PCI-e card.

 

[lobbyone]

If you'd like to stick to AGP/IDE, a better option is to go S939 with an X2 processor. As most newer Intel based mobo only have one PATA port and almost no AGP slot. A budget would be good too.

 

[f4phantom2500]

Originally posted by: lobbyone
If you'd like to stick to AGP/IDE, a better option is to go S939 with an X2 processor. As most newer Intel based mobo only have one PATA port and almost no AGP slot. A budget would be good too.

Agreed; I just assumed he was set on Intel.

 

[dbarton]

I'm not really interested in OCing. I run music composing apps, so stability is pretty important. Prefer Intel.

I just need basic video and happen to have an AGP card - just need basic video again. Not locked on AGP by any means if thats old technology. Havent bought a new system in 5 years and its all changed on me! This video card was only $50 and is fine.

I have a few IDE drives, and want to keep using at least two of em, but can do with a card if that's the way to go.

No specific budget in mind but seems like it'll take a few hundred (500?) dollars to update case/ps/cpu/mb/memory/video card. More?

Xp Pro, 1meg.

 

[engiNURD]

oooh, more info, ok, scratch all that... lets see...

case: Cooler Master Centurion 534, $30 @ svc.com
psu: XClio goodpower 500w, $52 @ the egg
cpu: core2duo e6400 2.13Ghz, $222 @ the egg
mb: gigabyte ga-965g-ds3, @123 @ the egg
memory: g.skill ddr2-800 2gb 2gbnq, $165 @ the egg

fyi, you dont lose any stability when overclocking these core2duo's... they have so much headroom! doh, looks like im over budget... sorry.

 

[dbarton]

Not a strict budget at all. Want to get what I need. I like the looks of tha Asus P5B board.. Any reason its a bad choice? I like the idea of the 6400 cos raw processor speed seems handy.

Thanks!!

 

[Roguestar]

engiNURD's suggestions are rather good. The P5B-Deluxe is good but avoid the vanilla version.

 

[piasabird]

Still some motherboards out there with intel 865 chipset that can run off of DDR400 and a AGP Card. You can still find them from Intel and Asus. My worry is that the motherboard may actually not be made anymore, and that it may have sat around for 1 year on a shelf and already be a year old.

There is probably little or no advantage to using DDR2 Ram.

Ideally you may want 4 RAM Slots.

I am still using an old Asus TUSL2-C Motherboard with a 1.2 Gig Tulatin Core Celeron. I had a newer AMD Athlon XP but the processor died.

 

[dbarton]

Originally posted by: Roguestar
engiNURD's suggestions are rather good. The P5B-Deluxe is good but avoid the vanilla version.

So Im good with his sugestions, but swapping out the MB for the P5B Deluxe?

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: dbarton

Originally posted by: Roguestar
engiNURD's suggestions are rather good. The P5B-Deluxe is good but avoid the vanilla version.

So Im good with his sugestions, but swapping out the MB for the P5B Deluxe?

P5B deluxe doesn't have onboard video, or an AGP slot..PCIe only, so you would have to get a video card for it as well.

 

[dbarton]

Aha, another $50, but Ive had good luck witrh ASUS so like to stay with em.

thnx!

 

[f4phantom2500]

Originally posted by: dbarton
Aha, another $50, but Ive had good luck witrh ASUS so like to stay with em.

thnx!

Originally posted by: engiNURD
mb: gigabyte ga-965g-ds3, @123 @ the egg

^integrated video, save a lot of $.

 

[Willoughbyva]

well, I was on a tight budget, so I went with Intel 820D and an A5PE-VM. Used some old ram and my old agp card. i don't game so it isn't a problem.