About a year and a half ago I bought a Gateway 840GM Multimedia Center PC (3GHz Pentium D & 1GB DDR2 RAM). Despite being a manufactured PC, it has been a good PC with no big problems. I have since then upgraded to 2GB DDR RAM, an Asus GeForce 6800 256MB PCI-X card and the Creative Labs X-Fi audio card. About a month ago I bought a new power supply to prep my system for another upgrade, the GeForce 8800GTX video card. I got the card but it does not fit. The CPU is too close to the PCI-X slot and the monster of a video card will not fit because the CPU heatsink and fan is blocking it. I have tried finding a smaller heatsink to fit the motherboard, but the board has somekind of weird design heatsink that only Gateway uses as all fans that I bought did not fit. I think my only choice is to replace the motherboard. Has anybody replaced a motherboard on the Gateway 840GM and if so, which one did you use? I just came to this conclusion yesterday and because I was watching the NCAA tournament, I have not had much of a chance to research this yet. I need to do something soon, seeing that new video card sitting unused on my desk is killing me.
Craig
Craig