Give me yaws thoughts on my computer.(cpu and motherboard)

[Nick Lee]

My setup:
ASUS motherboard
ati 9550 (CATALYST 5.3 and CATALYST Control Center)
512mb DDR ram
cd rom52x
AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ 1.79GHz
40 gig samsung
110 gig wdc wd400
300w power supply

I'm thinking of this,
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813135191
because it's better than the one i got, plus it should help my video card's graphics ... shouldn't it?

last i needed a bigger cpu so i needed the motherboard because the socket is a 939 socket.

thats why i'm getting this,
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103501

I would get better but, my resources are limited.
Do yaw agree?

 

[RickM]

Hi Nick Lee,
Take a look at this mobo
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130491
***Note that it is an ATX form factor****
Nice mobo for the price !!!

 

[RickM]

Hello again Nick Lee,
Sorry about the information on the MSI mobo,
other than it being an ATX form factor, it also supports PCI Express.
I am pretty sure your ATI 9500 is AGP. I did not notice it until I took a closer look at the spec's.

 

[vnf4ultra]

Your video card is agp, but the motherboard you list is pci-express. Are you upgrading graphics too, or do want to keep what you have?
Do you need a matx mobo or is full atx ok?
Some atx agp boards would be:
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130469
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813127181
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813152052
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131510

Can't find any matx 939 agp mobos.

matx pci-e:
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130485
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813186052

atx pci-e:
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813152049
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130491
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813127187

So your options are stay agp and get a full atx board, or go matx and get a micro or full atx board. If you have a small case you may need matx, which would also mean you'd need pci-e since no matx agp mobos are readily available.

Your graphics aren't going to perform much better in a newer computer, but a faster cpu may make games run better. To improve graphics, you'd need a better gpu. One option is to get this
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813130485 . It has integrated graphics and pci e. So you could use the int. graph. until you can get a pci-e card.

 

[olefarte]

If you are going with an AGP board, I like the second one that vnf4ultra listed, the Abit. That's the one I bought, along with an AMD 64 3500+.

 

[Nick Lee]

Yeah!
I also made a mistake and i'm thinkin' about the,
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Prod...N82E16813131510
:grinthumb

for the record I have A ''16 1/2in long,7 1/2in wide,2 feet tall case.''

 

[olefarte]

Your link doesn't work. "We are very sorry, the page that you requested does not exist."

 

[vnf4ultra]

Is this
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131510
what you were trying to link to?

 

[Nick Lee]

Is this
http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131510
what you were trying to link to?

Yep thats it! ^_^