Replacing motherboard question - Help please

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First of all, im a prety much noob at this im usually a gamer but ive became very interested in this kind of stuff. So sorry for the noob questions.

If i buy a new motherboard, does this mean i replace the processor witch i have? because i have a good 3.4GHz duel intel processor.

I have a dell 8400 and i personally dont like the motherboard because of the lock on the overclock, i want to replace the case aswell, i will be doing them both at the same time.

Does anybody know a very good motherboard for £70 and then a gaming case witch is compatible for around £30

It needs DDR2 couse of my ddr2 ram chips and PCI Express because of my pci e 16x video card

Thanks for your help. Preferbaly from a UK site like ebuyer :)
 
As long as you purchase a motherboard that has the same socket and is compatable with the processor(specs should specify this) then you don't need a new processor.

If you're replacing both the case and motherboard, I'd invest in a decent power supply too, as many Dell's probably have rather low rating...

Those amounts are rather low, plus I'm in the US so it's a bit hard for me to help out. However, basically any case you can find should be compatable with the motherboard, seeing as they are all basically ATX anymore.
 
Kool reply thanks, The amounts dont seem to bad to me most motherboards are like £30-70 on ebuyer in the UK and a case ye maybe £30 is a bit low but its not the most important thing in my view.

How could i find out what socket my processor has then ill post a processor for you to rate, Thanks.
 
yes. you will have big problems. sorry to burst your bubble, but i have just gone through everything you have as i have the same exact pc as you, so ill save you the pain in the butt.
http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=339053&rl=1

So there you have it. Dell sucks. The only salvagable parts are you're hd, optical drives, and video card. After coming to this awful realization i spent almost $600 US on a new case, motherboard, power supply, and video card. Now im turning this piece in to a beast. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but its better than finding out the hard way...
 
ZerOGoD said:
yes. you will have big problems. sorry to burst your bubble, but i have just gone through everything you have as i have the same exact pc as you, so ill save you the pain in the butt.
http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=339053&rl=1

So there you have it. Dell sucks. The only salvagable parts are you're hd, optical drives, and video card. After coming to this awful realization i spent almost $600 US on a new case, motherboard, power supply, and video card. Now im turning this piece in to a beast. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but its better than finding out the hard way...
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Well thanks for the reply, i think... Its not what i wanted to hear anyway.

So what your saying is i would need a new PSU for the motherboard, because ive already purchased them and there being deliverd... I didnt get to read all of what was sead in the link, did it mention CPU, what about that, i can surly take that out... cant i? And what about the RAM that is fine isnt it, i mean its ddr2 SDRAM, by samsung, surly that can go into another motherboard without being fried.

Cheers :(

EDIT: Dosnt matter anymore ive given up on dell and im now building a complete new system. Thanks.
 
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Before you do something rash, remeber the devil is in the details.....the date on this article is Mar 1, 2001. With a little further research you would find that starting in 2000, Dell switched to using industry-standard ATX power connections in its Dimension 4300, 4400, 8200, and newer systems.
 
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