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[hilly1238300]

I just bought my friends dinosaur of a PC, compaq presario 6000. I was looking at the specs of the motherboard and thought it should be the first thing to go. I need to know if there a re other motherboards (current day) that I can get into this case. I can probably do the rest from there.

 

[techsuitor]

Ok, so what's the problem behind that?
We need to know the exact thing, so that everyone can provide the best solution.
Thanks

 

[Rabbit01]

I read in another forum that a micro ATX board (244mm x 244mm) will fit inside the case.

 

[hilly1238300]

the problem is i just want to know what motherboards can go with this case, because i cant upgrade to well with the old original stuff.

 

[r3dark]

you might be better just building a new pc as the parts are not really worth saving if you plan on playing on a gaming pc...

 

[hilly1238300]

i plan on removing everything i just want to know good motherboards that could go with the case.

 

[hilly1238300]

ok, how about this? (all in the presario 6000 case) What minimal wattage would i need?


Intel BOXDP67DEB3 LGA 1155 Intel P67 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

Western Digital RE4 WD5003ABYX 500GB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

EVGA 01G-P3-1563-A1 GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) Maximum Graphics Edition Crysis 2 1GB 256-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

Intel Core i7-2600 Sandy Bridge 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo Boost) 4 x 256KB L2 Cache 8MB L3 Cache LGA 1155 95W Quad-Core Desktop Processor BX80623I72600

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 12GB (3 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666) Desktop Memory Model F3-10666CL9T-12GBRL

 

[Rabbit01]

Antec's PSU calculator said 328W. If you have an optical drive, it goes to 355W.

http://www.antec.outervision.com/PSUEngine

 

[hilly1238300]

So adding like a fan, monitor, and a bunch of USB stuff; roughly 500? 600 to be safe? Or is that over doing it?

 

[Rabbit01]

550W should be enough. If all 14 USB ports and 2 Firewire ports were used up, and you added couple HDD, a sound card, couple more fans, etc. The wattage came out to about 500W. Will you be using that many devices simultaneously? The monitor uses it's own separate power supply.

I noticed in the spec that the board has 4 slots and it's dual channel. So you'll want to have either all of them filled or just two.

 

[hilly1238300]

Kk, thanks a bunch!