> 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 > > My knowledge of this kind of hardware is limited. > I need some help deciding. I have a preference for Intel products based on prejudice not experiience. The salesman said that the eqivalent Intell based setup would cost $120 more. That is beyond my reach. > > I have to stay in this price range. There is not much room left for a retired guy. > > Before I do price comparison shopping, perhaps someone could suggest how I can get closer to my goals. > I wold like: > a.. to replace my board in the next two or three days. I am > currently sans computer. > b.. to have advice on whether Intel is , in fact, a better choice > over AMD. > c.. ASUS mother board has an integrated NVIDA video card, but I would > like to make use of my ATI card (AGP) if it is a better card. > d.. Certainly want to reuse the TV Tuner card. > e.. to move up to a basic Dual core CPU. It can be further upgraded > in the future, > f.. 64 bit system not necessary (I don't think) > g.. and I don't need a gaming level machine but do want the basis for > the next 5-6 years. > I really need advice on this one guys -- my computer has become my life blood. > > Sorry for the HTML post, but I can only use what I can > borrow for the time being. First email wrongly sent in he name of "PHILIPPE BOURGUIGNON" phillipebourguignon [ at ] rogers [ dot ] com. Please disregard. > > Regards Bill > -- > OCLUG general discussion list > OCLUG [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/oclug > Why do you need a new CPU? Just buy the motherboard and keep the existing CPU and RAM.