Hi I just recently bought some new things for my computer, an IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive, an AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core Processor (Socket AM2), and a GeForce 8500 graphics card (PCI Express x16).
I was trying to install all this on my old motherboard but I found that absolutely nothing fit. I tryed putting the new hard drive in Newegg.com - EXCELSTOR Jupiter Series ESJ8160 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - Internal Hard Drives, but the connectors wouldn't fit... I'm assuming IDE ultra is different from IDE? The slots weren't normal like on my old hard drive, instead there seems to be a sort of chip instead of a socket.
The graphics card was obvious, I just need a PCI Express slot.
I couldn't really pry off the old processor (glad I didn't) to install the new one in.
Here I'll just post all the specs for it.
Intel Springdale i865PE
Now what i was wondering... is all I needed to make this upgrade would be a new motherboard? Would I need to buy a new heat sink? Could I use two different types of IDE's on one motherboard?
Also is there a motherboard that supports multiple AGP's and just one PCIX (Edit: I don't know whether those are AGP's or PCI's... I think PCI's...)?
Sorry if anything I typed sounds confusing. Thanks for help in advance.
-Macalano
Just a side not I was reading up on this earlier about why my PCIX16 slot wouldn't fit into a PCI and apparently some guy took a box cutter to his it to make it fit. Not suggesting I would do that, but lol.
I was trying to install all this on my old motherboard but I found that absolutely nothing fit. I tryed putting the new hard drive in Newegg.com - EXCELSTOR Jupiter Series ESJ8160 160GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - Internal Hard Drives, but the connectors wouldn't fit... I'm assuming IDE ultra is different from IDE? The slots weren't normal like on my old hard drive, instead there seems to be a sort of chip instead of a socket.
The graphics card was obvious, I just need a PCI Express slot.
I couldn't really pry off the old processor (glad I didn't) to install the new one in.
Here I'll just post all the specs for it.
Intel Springdale i865PE
Now what i was wondering... is all I needed to make this upgrade would be a new motherboard? Would I need to buy a new heat sink? Could I use two different types of IDE's on one motherboard?
Also is there a motherboard that supports multiple AGP's and just one PCIX (Edit: I don't know whether those are AGP's or PCI's... I think PCI's...)?
Sorry if anything I typed sounds confusing. Thanks for help in advance.
-Macalano
Just a side not I was reading up on this earlier about why my PCIX16 slot wouldn't fit into a PCI and apparently some guy took a box cutter to his it to make it fit. Not suggesting I would do that, but lol.