I am planning on buying a new motherboard and i wanted to take my current intel chip and the heatsink but i dont know how to remove the thing that is holding it down:






any idea how to remove that i got it to move a bit but dont want to put to much pressure on it.

My next question is one agp slots, my current mobo has 3 pci slots and as i was lookin at it i see a spot that says "agp1" and has a space as if an agp slot was suppose to be there is there like some way i can buy an agp slot and put it onto my mobo here is some pics of it:





Thanks in advance

What brand is your motherboard? To remove the cpu heatsink push both ends of the clips downwards, and they should pop out. If not push them downwards and then outwards

my current mobo is..
Board: ASUSTeK Computer INC. KIRIN-V REV 1.xx
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software, Inc. ACPI BIOS Revision 1001 01/08/2003

thats what came up when i scanned cpu then i went to ASUS site
and this board looks like it could be mine

http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l...95&modelmenu=1

is there anyway i can find out for sure?

you state that the speed is 133mhz fsb. But the mobo you link me to is 533fsb

im not sure if the 1nd one is the right one but the first one came up when i use thing to scan the specs on my cpu, but i managed to remove the heatsink this is the mobo im planning on getting:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...Tab=1&NoMapp=0

i dunno if you guys will be able to tell me if my current hardware will be compatiable with it, as in does it support the same things my current mobo those

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...024712&CatId=0

Might you consider this one. It is much better than the other one you mentioned to me. What cpu do you have?? Mace sure it is socket 478.

my current is a pcvrs220 with my scan thingy its says it is a 478 mPGA is there a way i can find out for sure?

download cpu-z from here http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

extract and run the program. Tell me the cpu cache, speed, fsb, and socket.

what scan thingy do you use???

lol i use cpu id any ways here is my info

This is my cpu-z info.
I also see that you don't have HT. How much ram do you have, and would you consider the mobo I showed you? There is also a 3.0 GHz 478 cpu I am selling on e-bay, you can check it out if you want it.
http://cgi.ebay.ca/Pentium-4-Northwo...QQcmdZViewItem


Also click on the Mainboard tab

i have 760 ram i aint in to buy nothin but the mobo, lol and im willing to spend up to 50 yes im broke.... which of these would you see is compatiable with my cpu info and which would you recommend:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...ubCategory=280

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130490

This is the one I recommend. Because DDR is 400 FSB is 800 and has 1 AGP 8X slot. Might i suggest a better cooler??
Do you want to oc your cpu or not?

Also if you don't want to buy the cooler you can buy an really good themal paste http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835100007

I would highly recommend this thermal paste.


later you can get a good cpu cooler made out of pure copper http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835103162

As I said click on the Mainboard tab in cpu-z and tell me what it says


Here's mine

my friend is gonna give me some artic silver thermal paste

cool so i guess everything is allright. So you will buy the mobo i reccomended??

yea im gonna get order it next week gotta finish saving, sucks being broke now can u just over view and make sure all my stuff are compatiable(ram,hard drives)

i may respond to this tommorow if you post tonite

Post everything HDD's CPU, MOBO.

is the info cpu id give good enough for me to tell you im in school right now, but from what i know i believe i have IDE hard drives(or sumthin like that) ddr ram and thats all i can think off the top i will check further in when i get home.

Either the mobo comes with AGP or it does not. You can't "add" AGP slots.
If it is a recent board, it probably has AGP or PCI-E