HAY GUYS

Render · Local time: Aug 17, 2006, 10:44 AM

The bundle deal is gonna be a pretty good upgrade for you. Durons are not a good 'vintage' chip. :P

Keep in mind that the chip and motherboard are old technology, even though it's all AMD64 stuff. Socket 754 chips and motherboards are discontinued. Every board in that list is AGP which seriously limits the amount of video cards to choose and upgrade.

You will most likely have to upgrade your RAM to DDR if your current motherboard is using SDRAM.

As for a choice from the list, I would consider the Biostar because of the nForce3 chipset. I'm not really familiar with build quality from that company, although I do frequently see them pushing out high-end features on cheaper motherboards. Gigabyte is a well-respected company, and I have a few of their cheaper boards and have never had a problem. The only real difference between the two boards is the chipset and the form factor/amount of PCI slots.

Never heard of PC Chips, and I would instantly exclude them for that. They most likely have terrible driver support or a brutal manual. :/

The Biostar will be faster for games and such and has more PCI slots. I would pick it.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Render · Local time: Aug 17, 2006, 05:09 PM

Originally Posted by Dayvon

You are pretty well off in general... If you wanted to CPU upgrade for just smoother performance, that's not a bad idea. I'd say screw the mobo and just get the processor if you really are fed up with your CPU performance. EBay hawk the mobo, or donate it to something.

Also, do note that the CPU is OEM, so you might need to buy a heatsink/fan & thermal compound to install this CPU (unless you can use your old heatsink, but you will need compound).

He would pay more for anything Socket A than he would for this deal and get worse performance.

He has everything he needs to simply switch the motherboard and CPU. (except thermal goop)

There's nowhere I can't reach.