Guidance In A New Motherboard

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hexagramer

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HEY ALL,

im buying a new motherboard for the purpose of music production, editing, bouncing and recording into using mainly pro-tools, reaper cubase etc..

now iv recently had a normal house-desktop that i tried to turn to a production kit but never worked just because it was a cheap motherboard and cudnt take more than 512mb ram.

i was guna buy a macG5 untill one click revealed it was guna come to 2'000+euro. so im settling now with a new kickass motherboard, that comes with an ATHLON amd processor, free 4gb ram, (upgradeable to 8gb apparently) and extra normalityies that i need like firewire, ethernet, usb 2.0, 5.1 on board sound card and a dvi out ( i assume this will let me use an extra monitor with an adopter)

so all in all im hoping to god im buying the right mobo for what i want to do. dont want any snags like cant take certain powersupplies etc.

the mobo im buying:
http://cgi.ebay.ie/Bundle-motherboa...yZ131514QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

€261.

my plan:
1.im getting a power supply off a freind of mine down the road from me unnopened hoping its guna work. or swap it with the house emachines powersupply i have already.

2. buy a mouse + keyboard

3. take the hard drive from the emachines comp (80gb), it has windows xp installed, will this work with the new mobo?

4.i wont buy a case for the mobo ill leave it in open air in the room away from any dangers like tea or coffee, let the processor do a happy oxygenic job. no air con so ill keep the radiators down low.

5. take 1 of 2 cdr drives i have in the emachines.

and of course i dont need a floppy drive.

is there any problems?? am i doing anything wrong? is there anything i need to know about before buying this? i just dont wanna get ripped off whatever happens,
any comments or ideas welcome, i just need to make sure this plan is good to go as iv never bought a mobo before,

nick
 
i guess it is okay for ur budget but come on.... a 300 euro bundle is just like omg cheap....

why don't u go here.. www.ibuypower.com

i am very sure any kind of cheap ass gaming computer they sell there could handle ur needs without any problems and this website is very cheap too LOVE IT !!!
 
You wont just be able to "transplant" your hard drive. It will contain information about the motherboard, the RAM, the systems graphics card... by all means use it, but it'll need formatting and Windows XP reinstalling. If you change the major system hardware, it will require a reinstallation. If its worth it, may I recommend an HDD upgrade? Assuming you are using SATA II, which is probable, you could get a 160GB 7200rpm drive for 30 pound (keyboard symbol not working), or $60. Its a bargain. Remember that you'll need a new copy of Windows for a second installation, or you'll have to format the drive containing the first installation to avoid invalidation and illegal issues due to multiple installs. I have previously used this hard drive, and due to its 7200rpm spin speed, it should be faster than your old drive at writing media.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/132387
 
thanks guys.

i have a reinstallation cd for windows xp tho, but when i was reformatting my hard drive a while ago i couldnt reinstall it on another motherboard, (i brought it over to a mate of mine for reconfiguration) but my copy of xp only installs on emachines computers only.

will i really have to format the HD if iwant to use it with the new mobo? or is formatting it a once off?
 
look under 'specifications':

- 4x DDR2 (up to 8GB Dual Channel DDRII800/667/533)

800mhz...quite impressive im guessing
 
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