Upgrade Motherboard

[caskonator]

Hey im looking to upgrade my motherboard to a more powerful one thats under $250 with a case and cooling fan if i need to.

Could someone recommend some of that stuff that i cound buy????

 

[PZEROFGH]

Well whats your CPU?

 

[Apokalipse]

need more details

 

[caskonator]

It's a crap little Intel Celeron 650mhz

 

[Apokalipse]

slot 1 or socket 370?
I can tell you, either one, you won't find a new board for it.
you'll be looking for a second hand one

 

[caskonator]

Could i get a new cpu then?

 

[Apokalipse]

yeah you could, but then you'd probabbly have to upgrade your RAM and video card, and possibly your power supply.

newer boards use DDR RAM, not SD

they use AGP 8X or PCI-E 16X. your system is probabbly at most AGP 2X (AGP 8X is not backward compatible with 2X)

and they usually use more power

although doing so you'd basically have a new computer

 

[caskonator]

So you think i'll just be better off to by a new pc?

 

[Apokalipse]

that depends. do you have what you need now? (except for the motherboard)

 

[caskonator]

just the processor