Hi all,
I used to know what I was looking for in a PC, but it's been at least three years since I've been up to date, and I've just fried a mobo. I can't replace my existing one like-for-like, and can't find a reasonable quality one that will seat my existing chip (my old mobo was an Intel Winterpark Server board - that's easier than listing all the other bits I have plugged into it). In short, I have an Intel P4 chip, with DDR 400Mhz RAM, that needs a home. Oh yes, and my existing Graphics card is AGP. Ideally, a dual-processor board that can take my existing hardware would make my PC viable for another couple of years at least.
Can anyone suggest a decent board to put in?
If not, (or perhaps as well) - if I decide to go the whole hog and upgrade, I'll need a board, CPU, graphics card and perhaps RAM. I'd like to go Core2 Duo, perhaps quad-core ready (if that's possible yet?). I'd definitely like to be SLI-ready, although I'll probably only be getting one graphics card for now. I'd like to go cutting edge with the graphics card, so that when I do upgrade, putting a second one in will feel like a significant boost, so I'd like a board that can do 2x16X properly. In a perfect world, I'd probably like to go dual processor too, although I'm willing to sacrifice that.
Finding the right chip, graphics and even ram is easy, once I know what I'm looking at for a mobo, but having spent a week looking at boards, I don't have a clue what I want, and I'm suffering from information overload.
Can anyone suggest a board for either (or both) of these solutions, as well as what makes this the best choice (in case I need to compromise, I'll know what I'm looking for).
Thanks a ton,
Rich
I used to know what I was looking for in a PC, but it's been at least three years since I've been up to date, and I've just fried a mobo. I can't replace my existing one like-for-like, and can't find a reasonable quality one that will seat my existing chip (my old mobo was an Intel Winterpark Server board - that's easier than listing all the other bits I have plugged into it). In short, I have an Intel P4 chip, with DDR 400Mhz RAM, that needs a home. Oh yes, and my existing Graphics card is AGP. Ideally, a dual-processor board that can take my existing hardware would make my PC viable for another couple of years at least.
Can anyone suggest a decent board to put in?
If not, (or perhaps as well) - if I decide to go the whole hog and upgrade, I'll need a board, CPU, graphics card and perhaps RAM. I'd like to go Core2 Duo, perhaps quad-core ready (if that's possible yet?). I'd definitely like to be SLI-ready, although I'll probably only be getting one graphics card for now. I'd like to go cutting edge with the graphics card, so that when I do upgrade, putting a second one in will feel like a significant boost, so I'd like a board that can do 2x16X properly. In a perfect world, I'd probably like to go dual processor too, although I'm willing to sacrifice that.
Finding the right chip, graphics and even ram is easy, once I know what I'm looking at for a mobo, but having spent a week looking at boards, I don't have a clue what I want, and I'm suffering from information overload.
Can anyone suggest a board for either (or both) of these solutions, as well as what makes this the best choice (in case I need to compromise, I'll know what I'm looking for).
Thanks a ton,
Rich
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