new mobo help

RunAway

RunAway

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I have a Dell that the psu just went out (old machine my wife uses)and I would rather upgrade the mobo than spend the cash on a propriety psu and can do it cheaper too I think...My cpu is a Northwood 3.0 478 and using ddr pc3200...Newegg only has one 478 board...It is a ddr2 board but will this northwood work with it? And does anyone have any other ideas?....Thanks...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138079
 
RunAway said:
Yes,new case and I gues I will need a cpu fan also...Wonder where I will come up with that?
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use your old cpu fan...
BTW, what is your budget? It is waste of money to keep your old CPU with new motherboard...

I suggest you spend $250 to get a full upgrade of CPU/ Mobo/ RAM/ PSU/ Case
 
daisymtc said:
use your old cpu fan...
BTW, what is your budget? It is waste of money to keep your old CPU with new motherboard...

I suggest you spend $250 to get a full upgrade of CPU/ Mobo/ RAM/ PSU/ Case
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Good idea...Can't use old cpu fan though...Has a duct in the Dell case that pulls air from the rear case fan,you seen them B-4...Maybe could use it,don't know...Budget is what I can get away with to get her going again...All she does is email and stuff...
 
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may be, buy a cheap cpu fan...

Amm... If she really don't want to spend money, it worth to go to ebay to see if you can find a LGA 478 mobo with $15-20
 
I have a Wolfdale E5200 dual core in my 32 bit Vista machine with a Gigabyte board and 4 gigs of PC2-6400..Thought about upgrading to a Q6600 or something and using the Wolfdale in the new upgrade for my wife, but only if I could pop the new quad right in...What about that? Any issues with just popping in a new cpu like that?
 
No prob. to use E5200 with email/ stuffing web.
What gigabyte mobo with your existing E5200?

Just visiting our for sale section, [-0MEGA-] is seling his Asus EeePC 1000HA for $299...
 
With the Pentium 4's put out by Dell there isn't really a CPU fan so-to-speak. The CPU just has a heatsink on it and the "tube" they use just kind of helps to direct the actual case fan ventilation on to the CPU first, then out to the rest of the case. Honestly, as long as you get a case with decent ventilation, just using the heatsink that is already on the CPU will be fine. At a glance, the mobo you posted looks like it'll work fine.
 
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