Gutting a Compaq Presario

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DavoX

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Does anybody know if the parts of a Compaq Presario can be used on other computers? When I say gutting it I mean the ram, sound card, video cards etc and putting them on a different motherboard. Can this be done? I'm a computer newb.
 
I wouldn't recommend you to buy a pre-build computer at all even if it's for just browsing the internet, build your own, apart from learning you'll get a much better computer.

Even if you could, those parts are cheaply made most likely
 
First of all, Welcome to the Computer Forum. If the sound card, video card, are inegrated, no you cannot take it out, and probably so is the video card. I would suggest you buy another computer alltogether, build by youself. If you plan on extreme gaming, and overclocking, I'd recommend you build it youself.
 
Without knowing the model, I can't say what would and wouldn't work... But typically, only the motherboard case and maybe PSU would be the only things you couldn't "reuse", and that's becoming quite rare anymore... However, also depending on it's age, you may not be able to use the RAM(say if it's DDR and you need DDR2) hard drive(say it's IDE and your IDE channel is taken by optical drives :P) Or such...
 
The_Other_One said:
Without knowing the model, I can't say what would and wouldn't work... But typically, only the motherboard case and maybe PSU would be the only things you couldn't "reuse", and that's becoming quite rare anymore... However, also depending on it's age, you may not be able to use the RAM(say if it's DDR and you need DDR2) hard drive(say it's IDE and your IDE channel is taken by optical drives :P) Or such...
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It's a SR1910NX can the parts of this particular model be salvaged?
 
SATA hard drive, IDE optical drive, DDR RAM, Socket939 processor, should be typical ATX motherboard and power supply... About whatever you want to use should be usable :P
 
what are you planning to use this for? low gaming? med gaming? word processing? photo/video editing? extreme gaming?
 
Well assuming you upgraded, the soundcard is onboard(most are now) the RAM is DDR(still fine today, but not the "newest and best") and video card was also intergrated, and CERTAINLY not for extreme gaming...
 
Agreed! Extreme gaming, you will need another computer alltogether... C2D, 8800 seires, Vista... ect. choose your parts 1
 
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