Motherboard And Processor

You're trying to upgrade from your Athlon XP, right? A Pentium 4 won't really give you a serious performance boost. At the very least, you should aim for an Athlon 64 setup or Socket 775 Core2/Pentium Dual-Core/Celeron Dual-Core setup. Nowadays, you could build a rig like the one in my sig pretty cheaply with parts from eBay.
 
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I am trying to use this motherboard because the hard drive connectors and power supply on my current computer do not fit the modern day motherboards. I don't want to be shelling out money on new hard drives cases and power supplies or soldering up new connectors. Also the hard drives contain useful information which I would like to retain. Do you have any ideas?

Thanks Ben
 
There are plenty of newer motherboards that have IDE hard drive connectors; mine does, and I'm using an IDE drive on it right now. Also, there are adapters you can buy to use a 20-pin motherboard power supply connector on a 24-pin board, such as this one.

EDIT: Sorry, I posted at the same time as you.
 
You can always retain your personal data just by copying it to a different drive. The problem you will have is that if you try to use your existing hard drive with the new motherboard, it won't boot up because of different hardware.

Can't tell if the motherboard supports that particular processor as I can't find a cpu support page.

You also realize that this board requires ddr2 memory while your old board most likely only had ddr1 memory.
 
BenBilly said:
Ok I have looked at the AMD Athlon 64 X2 setup this motherboard will connect with my hard drives. But will it work with this processor and this fan unit?

Motherboard

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MSI-MS-72...d=100005&prg=1048&rk=2&rkt=5&sd=261205312661&

Processor

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AMD-Athlo...Computing_CPUs_Processors&hash=item4d0e67dc6e

Fan Unit

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AMD-Socke...ponents_Fans_Heatsinks_SR&hash=item20b56f6770

Thanks So Much Ben
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Strangely, I can't find anything about that board, but it looks like it should work with that CPU. Also, it says in the motherboard's listing that the seller would include a CPU heatsink.
johnb35 said:
You also realize that this board requires ddr2 memory while your old board most likely only had ddr1 memory.
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^This is important.

EDIT: It looks like this is an information page for that board, but I don't know why it's on an NEC site.
 
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I now this is alot to ask but would you be able to recommend a processor motherboard and fan unit for the AMD Athlon 64 X2 with IDE hard drive connectors. I'm not to bothered about the power connector seen as you have shown me that adapter.

Thanks Ben
 
BenBilly said:
I now this is alot to ask but would you be able to recommend a processor motherboard and fan unit for the AMD Athlon 64 X2 with IDE hard drive connectors. I'm not to bothered about the power connector seen as you have shown me that adapter.

Thanks Ben
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How about this?:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/PC-Mother...aptopMotherboards_CPUs_CA&hash=item58a32b2ac0
I don't know much about which AMD boards were the best during the Athlon 64 era, but this one would definitely support the Athlon 64 X2 4200+.
This fan would be a nice, cheap solution:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Arctic-Co...?pt=US_CPU_Fans_Heatsinks&hash=item4d105ec296
 
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Looks like that motherboard was pulled out of an HP system but support does show for the processor you are wanting to use. However, hopefully your current case connections will match up to the OEM motherboard.
 
BenBilly said:
So your sure this processor (link below) will work with this motherboard and fan unit.

Processor

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AMD-Athlo...Computing_CPUs_Processors&hash=item43bf1eb46d

Oh and if its possible do you know of any other motherboard for this processor that is a bit cheaper say 20-30 pounds or american currency 30-50 dollars.

Thanks Ben
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Like I said, I don't know much about AM2 motherboards, but your best bet to find one cheaper would be to scour eBay for a good deal. Make sure that you get a MicroATX or ATX compatible board, depending on your case size; a non-standard OEM board is useless. Once you find a cheap board, you can always use this site to check CPU compatibility. Also, if you have trouble finding a good AM2 board, don't rule out the possibility of building a rig around an LGA775 processor such as mine; you can find many Pentium Dual-Cores and Core 2 Duos on eBay for pretty cheap.
 
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