A good cpu/mobo combo

Troncoso

Troncoso

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I'm looking for a cpu/mobo combo deal to replace the one's in my mom's computer. Nothing expensive, but has to be a dual-core and support ddr2 800 ram. I don't want to spend more than $100. I tried looking on newegg but I couldn't find combo deals with a processor and mobo that old.
 
Is your mum's computer a perbuilt one? If so, some of the motherboard connectors (possibly along with other things) might be nonstandard. I wouldn't recommend just swapping the guts of a prebuilt stock machine... you'd most likely be better off getting a new case as well and chucking the new stuff as well as the parts from the old computer in there.

Of course, it all depends on the make/model of the machine. And if it is a custom-built one, you might as well ignore what I just said and wait for some proper suggestions ^^
 
I can't look at those links on my blackberry but yeah its custom built. I just used some old parts and threw something together for her. It has a p4 now, but I wanted to upgrade her computer and put windows 7 on it.

edit: And one last thing. Is there any chance of finding what I want with 2 pata slots?? All of her drives are pata and she has 4
 
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Troncoso said:
I can't look at those links on my blackberry but yeah its custom built. I just used some old parts and threw something together for her. It has a p4 now, but I wanted to upgrade her computer and put windows 7 on it.

edit: And one last thing. Is there any chance of finding what I want with 2 pata slots?? All of her drives are pata and she has 4
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Not likely, but you can get PATA to SATA adapters or a PCI/PCIe PATA card to handle them.
 
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