Need some old school advice for a new mobo or dump

[colomboheritage]

I built my computer about 2 years ago and it was my first build. I did very badly and i want to redo my build keeping my processor (intel pentium 4 with HT 3.0 ghz prescot edition socket 478). My mobo is an D865PERL. It sucks balls. It offers 4 DIMM DDR slots!! and one AGP slot!!! No Fan Control!!!! No Overclocking!!! I would like to have a DDR2 and PCI express MOBO that will be excellent for gaming, allow overclocking, and will allow a custom CPU fan attachement.... Oh yeah dont forget the budget, around $100. Your suggestions will help me out greatly! Also if you think i should toss my processor too, please feel free to let me knwo why. Thanks again!

 

[o1die]

Very few pci-e boards for socket 478, and priced high when you can find one. Your budget won't allow for ddr2 or pci-e. I would save some more until you can afford an Intel 21xx or am2 upgrade with ddr2. You'll need about $200 for the board, cpu, and 2 gigs of memory.

 

[jitpublisher]

Trying to overclock that already hot running HT'd P4 is a waste of time.
You'd need to invest in some very good cooling to get anywhere. By the time you do that, upgrading what you have is a complete waste of money for the results you will get.

You need a new motherboard, processor and memory.
Like above poster mentioned, wait until you can scrape up around $200 and you can really do a great upgrade that simply blow away what you have now, and allow room for future upgrading as well.

 

[stan116]

Both replys are leaving something very important out. Your vidio card.If you change to a new PCI-e mobo,your going to also need a new vidio card. And your also not going to get very much performance wise for $200. If he buys a new board and memory,how much is he going to have left over for a decent processor,and once again, a vidio card. $500-$600 would cover it.

 

[B-Unit]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138079R $50 if your not scared of open box. $65 for new product, youll have to pick up some DDR2 RAM and PCI-e video if you dont already have them. Im thinking bout grabing one of these boards for an old Dell I have so I can drop my 8600GTS in and play with my P4 3.0Ghz.


I agree that you should probably just hold off untill you can get a deal on a nice 775 board and an E2xxx chip, that will give you a real overclock. If your doing this like I am just to extend the P4, not use it as a primary, this board is a good choice, but if its gonna be your main system, look to the future my friend, your P4 will not cut it.