gigabyte ga-945gcm-s2c motherboard replacement

[mightyjoe84]

So I am trying to put together a semi decent computer as a surprise for my wife for our Anniversary in a few weeks.

I have an old tower with the gigabyte ga-945gcm-s2c motherboard in it that has 2 burst capacitors on it. The tower is still good as is the floppy and dvd drive and CPU (intel cor2 duo E6600 2.4 ghz).

The only replacement motherboards I can find are going to take forever to ship from China on ebay and Newegg does not have any of this old board in stock.

If anyone has some suggestions on a newer motherboard that will fit in the same tower that the current one is in, I would be appreciative.

I also need to get a new video card, hard drive and RAM for this so those suggestions as well would be excellent.

Thanks

 

[Wolfshadw]

What is your budget for this project?

-Wolf sends

 

[mightyjoe84]

about $200

 

[Wolfshadw]

Well, here's what I've come up with:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G41MT-S2PT Micro ATX LGA775 Motherboard ($69.99 @ NCIX US)
Memory: Mushkin 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1066 Memory ($47.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital RE3 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($44.00 @ Amazon)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 5450 1GB Video Card ($24.99 @ Micro Center)
Total: $186.97
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-09-20 11:24 EDT-0400

Is there any reason why you cannot/don't want to salvage the hard drive and RAM from the old system?

-Wolf sends

 

[mightyjoe84]

Thanks for the reply, it's currently being used in other system. When this motherboard went out about 2 years ago, cannibalized ram, and hard drive into one that was working