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12-26-2005, 12:40 PM
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Mobo and CPU replacement
Long story short is that my parents' house had an electrical problem that screwed up their old Compaq that they had bought about 3 years ago. It looks like the mobo will have to be replaced, and since it's an old AMD socket 754 (Sempron 64 2800+ I think) I figured it was a good opportunity to make a few upgrades. New to computer builds, so I wanted to run the parts that I was looking at by a few of you guys and make sure it would work. I was looking at the following things on newegg:
ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 Socket 939 ULi M1695 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail Model #: 939Dual-SATA2 Item #: N82E16813157081 AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 1GHz FSB Socket 939 Processor Model ADA3700BNBOX - Retail Model #: ADA3700BNBOX Item #: N82E16819103539 CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model TWINX1024-3200C2PRO - Retail Model #: TWINX1024-3200C2PRO Item #: N82E16820145466 Thermaltake TR2 W0070 ATX 430W Power Supply - Retail Model #: W0070 Item #: N82E16817153023 I figured everything else on their existing unit should be compatible - so let me know if that's not the case. Thanks. |
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12-26-2005, 01:26 PM
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Will the Motherboard that you have selected fit into the Compaq case?
Will the old Power Supply be compatable with the new Motherboard and will it meet the powewr reqirements of the new hardware? |
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12-26-2005, 01:38 PM
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First off, pick either AGP or PCI-E...those dual boards aren't that great, especially considering it's a ULi chipset, and the slots themselves may not be standard.
XMS RAM is a bit overboard, it's not needed unless they want to do serious overclocking. As not important said, the motherboard probably isn't going to fit into the case (at least not without some work). You might look at some Antec cases...some come with quality Antec power supplies. That CPU seems a bit overboard...unless your parents are big gamers.
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12-26-2005, 05:21 PM
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this mobo is a very popular and solid choice
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131530 this is an exelent case/psu combo, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811129155 otherwise u could chose a good PSU brand and any case u want
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