What type of motherboard do any of you recommend for swapping out my old one? My current one is around 6 years old, and it only hold Rambus memory, and has only one processor socket, which is 423 pin.

SP

Honestly. you will probably have to search ebay etc for that, and I severely doubt you will find anything truly great and reasonably priced

You could get an e4400 C2D CPU, a cheapo mobo socket 775, 1Gb of ddr2 667 for approx 200 USD and it will blow your mind compared to that curent rig you are running. You might need a new GPU also, and for another 60 bucks you could throw in a 6600 which is not a great performer, but it is probably 100x better than your current video.

cgi.ebay.com/Intel-Desktop-Motherboard-D850GB-Pentium-4-P4-400MHz_W0QQitemZ220171895465QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item220171895465

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[size=1][color=#666666]This message was edited by axforts2212 on Nov 14 2007.

Dude you set your expectations toooooo high... you gotta chill the Geforce 6600 is very good, it can rival most new cards on the market. Your set up that you told him is a really bad you can make a system like mine for 200 bucks max, maybe 250 is u cant salavage the parts.

not everybody lives in somalia like you, 6600 is a terrible card but my cat would disagree you could try garage sales, but you may not be that lucky either way you should be considering upgrading period. if your interested in a budget all around computer, please check this thread. http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/17/t1039373-need-help-choosing-parts-for-new-computer-800-budget

- Christine

I think a good choice would be an ASUS motherboard. It has a fair price, and it does its job, and most of them leave u a lot of space to tune ur processor or ram capabilities.

Of course u have to chose a motherboard who would fit ur processor(AMD, Intel, dual core or quad core, FSB), GPU and RAM demands.

ASUS Striker Extreme but not cheap.


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Hmm, well i currently need to upgrade my motherboard so i can get dual core, we still have pentium 4
anyway i was wondering how much a fairly decent motherboard would cost
btw im in Australia if that helps at all

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ASUS Striker Extreme but not cheap.

Nope. Games on Windows won't even know what to do with all those CPUs.

ok well what about this? would it be useful to have 2 cpus when the computer has to handle 6 monitors and run FSX on full graphics?

In reply to that thread:
I don't know if FSX supports quad-core or not. It could, but I'm just not sure.

Same goes for having a motherboard with 2 CPUs. It just depends on the game, if it is coded for it or not. I don't know enough about FSX to say.

not sure either, but it should, seeing as how it is a resource hungry program.

by the way, for simplicity, im going to use the link in my last post for all these inquiries. after all, i seem to have taken over the thread.

Well i did some research today on Motherboards and this one seems fine to me.
RRP= $250
Gigabyte GA-EP-45-DS4P
P45+ICH10R, FSB 1600 MHz, DDR2 1200, PCI-E x16 2.0(CrossFireX), SATAII, RAID, GbN LAN, 1394, 7.1-channel, ATX GA-EP45-DS4P

You reckon its any good?

thats a kickass mobo, and is a huge upgrade from ur current one. i'd go for it.

It won't work if your P4 is using DDR400 or RDRAM.