half of a upgrade?

Big B · Rated NC-17 Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 194

While looking on newegg, i found some hardware which can use the harddrive i have now, and the same ram speed. all i would have to buy would be a new/better PSU,CPU, video card. as i should be able to use the ram and harddrive i have now.I be going from P4 to a 939 amd,, agp to a pcie all for around 600?You all think that would work?Only thing I'm not 100% sure about would be my harddrive, other then that i think if everything work good it be a halfway good update not spending alot but getting little better stuff then i have now.

Links to the items, not sure on power supply as i dont know much about them. someone pick me a good one

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813188007 mobo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814130061 gpu

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103741
cpu

edvallie · Posted: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 02:06:45 Post Subject:

What kind of harddrive do you have now? You have to tell us if your worried about it not being compatible. With a post like this, your current system specs can be helpful to put into your sig.

If your inexperienced at building computers another thing you might tend to overlook is the form factor. Make sure you have a mATX compatible case before you purchase the motherboard.

It looks like the motherboard is capable of both sata-II and only TWO IDE devices. If you have older devices, theres a good chance that they are IDE. Keep in mind that both older CD-RWs/DVD/DVD-RWs etc will be running off of IDE as well as the older harddives that you might have.

**EDIT** - Do NOT buy that CPU with that motherboard. While the motherboard says that it supports AMD X2 processing, that ONLY refers to socket 939 AMD X2's. You've currently got a socket AM2 cpu picked out to go into a socket 939 motherboard. It looks like AMD is phasing out the old socket 939 cpus, if you want to stick with socket 939 and an X2 (and newegg), you'll have to go with one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?N=50001028+1050717007+1051707439&Submit=ENE

BeerCheeze · Posted: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:22:45 Post Subject:

Yea, the AM2 CPU won't fit in a Socket 939 board. Also, find out if the motherboard would take an Operton (should). Then get one of these:
link

Cheaper than the X2's and have 1mb L2 cache for each core instead of the 512K those X2's have.

Big B · Rated NC-17 Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 194

Hi, thanks for the help so far, I can have a matx as thats what im running now. I think the harddriver is a IDE ATA/ Ultra ATA something along that line,

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103584

How much better is this cpu compared to the P4 i have now?

edvallie · Posted: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:45:36 Post Subject:

Big B · Rated NC-17 Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 194

yea, i think i may just wait till next year or two and just build new instead of trying to save this system..

thanks again