On Tuesday 31 July 2007 5:54 am, PHILIPPE BOURGUIGNON wrote: > Hi; > > Desperately need your advice. The BIOS on my 5 year old machine died on > Sunday. I need to purchase a new motherboard today or tomorrow. Of course > I will need a new CPU and memory to go with it. I am on a limited budget > and will need something that I can install now and do future upgrades for > my harddisks, video carde, TV tuner card and other periphials. > > I have on my dead machine the following new componets I would like to keep > if at all possible: ATI Radeon 9600 Pro Atlantis (AGP) > ATI TV Wonder 550 (TV Tuner card) > 2 Maxtor 40 GiB Hard disks > Monitor etc. > > PCCyper has suggested and quoted me the following: > Motherboard - ASUS M2NPV-VM $98 > RAM - 1 GiB Kingston $53 > CPU - AMD Athlon 64 - x2 3800 > socket AM 2 $84 > Total with Taxx $267.90 There is nothing wrong with this suggestion that I can see. The AMD cpu is a good chip and the salesperson is right about the extra price for the Intel and there is no appreciable benefit for the extra money spent. -- Bruce