Posted by MarkB_MI on August 18, 2010 at 02:54:07 from (166.217.36.206):
In Reply to: O/T: Dead pc question posted by MeAnthony on August 17, 2010 at 18:02:05:
That's a fairly low-performance motherboard by today's standards. The only reason to use the same board would be to keep your old processor and memory, which are now suspect, as well as maintain compatibility with your other components. You may have trouble even finding that motherboard.
If it was me, I'd bite the bullet and replace the motherboard, CPU and memory. Basically keep your case, power supply, keyboard and drives. However, there are some caveats:
1. Your current board has an AGP graphics card port. Most newer motherboards only support PCI-Express graphics cards. No big deal; you can get a much better graphics card than you have now for less than a hundred bucks.
2. Newer chipsets don't support the older PATA (aka IDE) disk drives, although the motherboard manufacturers usually add on PATA support. If you only have SATA drives, no problem, but if your drives are PATA it's something to watch out for. SATA (serial ATA) drives have a narrow data cable about 3/8 of an inch wide, while PATA (parallel ATA) drives use a much wider data cable.
3. If you're running a newer version of windows, you'll probably have issues when Windows discovers your hardware has changed. I'm not sure the whole process you have to go through to fix that; I'm not a Windows guy.
ASUS has a very solid reputation, but there are other good motherboards as well. I have an MSI board with which I'm very happy. I suggest buying from Newegg; their prices are good and their web site makes it simple to get everything you need.
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