New motherboard worth buying?

its not 50/50 .. its more a 10% chance it wont fit right.. even then it'll still fit but may be missing one screw. my 'proprietary' Asus p4sd-la fitted in a TT Swing case jus fine but for some reason, the board had 2 extra holes that doesnt seem to be of any use in the old compaq case nor the new TT swing case. otherwise it fitted fine. as for the back slots not fitting video cards, as long as u align ur board right and what not there shouldnt be any problems unless u have a super ghetto super generic case or motherboard thats made somewhere in the jungle.. hmm

WOW ultra! I think I'm just gonna have to save up my money and buy every single item you just listed, I love this community!
This will be my first time building a pc myself, Good thing i have an uncle who builds custom pcs, and ofcourse, the TS community. If i can sell my dirbike, i'll already have a good 600-700 dollars and i'll only have to work for a week just to get that 800.
Thanks again.

Im not talking about a generic case. The impression I got was that he was going to put a non Emachine mobo into an Emachine case. If that wasnt his original intent then I misunderstood.

That was indeed my original intent.

Wow great advice there "But yes you will definatly have to upgrade to a PCIe or AGP motherboard to play the newer games." NO **** SHERLOCK YOUR ARENT GONNA PLAY BF2 ON HIGH WITH A ISA VIDEO CARD. "Yea like hewybo said you have to make sure that the motherboard that you get is going to be compatible with your Processor,RAM,etc." WOW THX CAPTAIN OBVIOUS, JESUS CHRIST.

Epox is also a good brand, definently stay away from ECS, PCChips and the lower end Foxconn mobos.

Let's avoid cursing and blashphemy. This is a family website and personally I find it offensive. Thank you. :knock:

Mild language is ok.... but using language that is disrespectful to religions will not be tolerated.

Some people who visit this forum do not have your obvious level of expertise, Willy. Nor do most share your version of tact. What a wonderful addition you will make to TechSpot.

Yesterday, my friend said that he could build me a replica of his pc for around 600, able to view 100% on high settings beautifully on BF2, his pc pretty much owns n00bs.

What are the specs on your friend's pc?

wow. . . Thank you for that absolutely wonderful and very informative and useful insight. . . not everyone here is a super nerd like you. You don't need to critisize others for trying to help and be nice just so that you can show off your "amazing" skills.

Not sure, i'll have to post them when he gets on xfire.