Upgrade route

[Hammerman]

Hi... need some advice on what to do with my current setup and if upgrading now is a good time. I have built my own machines since the celeron 366 days but have really gotten out of the loop for what is happening.
I have a semperon 3100+ on an epox mobo
1536MB of pc3200 DDR sdram memory.
The chipset on the mobo is the nVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400gb
It has sata and pata hard drive connections..
I use a radeon 9550 video card

Should I keep this or use some of the parts for a partial upgrade or just go all new at this point? I don't want to dump a boatload of money just yet but if there is a quality way to go that is fairly economical.... Thanks..

 

[o1die]

I use an asrock dual sata II motherboard ($68 at extreme pcgear) with socket 939 3200. It will use either agp or pci-e video, and has 4 ddr slots. These boards are hard to find, so if you want one, better order it now. I got 2 as newegg open box boards for $36 shipped, but they sell out in minutes. Newegg still has the 3400 bare cpu for only $40, or the opteron 165 dual core with heatsink for $100 shipped. These won't last too long. When they're gone, you'll have to get them used on ebay for about the same price.

 

[Hammerman]

This will use my old memory?

 

[Hammerman]

This will probably not be much of an upgrade, correct? The bump up in speed probably won't be too dramatic...

 

[o1die]

If you have a socket a sempron, then it will be worth it. Your old memory and video card will work on the asrock board. If you have a 754 sempron, then you might try overclocking first. I'm running my 3200 at 2500, a 25% overclock.

 

[Hammerman]

This is a micro atx?

ASROCK 939NF4G-SATA2 nVIDIA GeForce 6100 CHIPSET SERIAL ATA300 MICRO ATX FORM FACTOR 1xPCI-E(X16)/2xPCI-E(X1)/2xPCI/4xDDR W/INTEGRATED VGA,SATA RAID,LAN,USB 2.0 & AUDIO (CPU TYPE:AMD - SOCKET 939) Computer Parts / Accessories Motherboards ASROCK


ASROCK 939NF4G-SATA2 nVIDIA GeForce 6100 CHIPSET SERIAL ATA300 MICRO ATX FORM FACTOR 1xPCI-E(X16)/2xPCI-E(X1)/2xPCI/4xDDR W/INTEGRATED VGA,SATA RAID,LAN,USB 2.0 & AUDIO (CPU TYPE:AMD - SOCKET 939)

Warrenty Info: Manufacture Warrenty
SKU: 939NF4GSATA2
Status: Closed-out
Price: List Price: $87.99
Our Price: $65.02
Shipping Info: usually shipping within 24 hours while in stock
Quantity:


Is this the one??

 

[KeypoX]

it seems he has a socket A i dont believe they made a nforce 2 for 754

that board doesnt seem that great i would goto the for sale forum here and get some upgrade.

If you wanna wait about a month i will selling my 939 board and cpu for cheap

 

[xgsound]

Just so you can compare to very new stuff:
$69.00 7052 mobo http://www.newegg.com/product/...p?item=N82E16813138074
$63.99 X2 3600+ http://www.newegg.com/product/...p?item=N82E16819103046
$79.99 2GB 667 DDR2 mem http://www.newegg.com/product/...p?item=N82E16820134046
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$213.97

That gives you decent nvidia (256 mem if you want) video until you get better, an X2 65nm CPU, and 2 GB mem. Add whatever video card later your PSU can support and you really have something there.


Jim