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beetle_slayer

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I have a Gateway E-2000 desktop with 2.0ghz Celeron. It has the small PCI slots in the back but it isn't a micro case. Normal PCI cards fit but you have to change the metal bracket. I want to upgrade and make it faster using the same case. Why not just buy another case you ask? My wife can't know about it. As long as everything looks the same, I'm good to go. I want more speed using my Photoshop and Painter. I am not asking the world, just a little more.
My questions are these, will any mother board fit, or is this an oddball motherboard due to the pci brackets? Can I put a P4 with faster than 133mhz bus? Can I run SATA drives with raid? I can get the parts cheap and the tech support free (brother is a tech support guy for office and used to work for Gateway). Do I need to give up? She says she only needs it to be fast enough to read the news and check email.
 
haha. That's funny. You know what you have to do? You tie her to the bed and beat her. It's amazingly effective. :P

Ok. Seriously. That case is a desktop case. It isn't using a typical motherboard setup. It will have a "riser" card in it so that the PCI cards can sit in parallel to the motherboard. They are crap setups to upgrade.

The best case scenario is to get a new processor and more RAM for it. You will probably have to go used on the processor.

You can put a SATA add-in card in it, but I don't recommend the RAID at all unless you are going RAID 1. The only problem is that I don't think you can get two HDDs in that case.

I'm not sure what the BIOS supports as far as CPUs go, but that FSB is 400 MHz (a quadrupled 100).
 
Sure this is your Wife, sounds like your Mother? Ha just kidding! Mabe if it quit working she would let you upgrade, just take the ram out!! Oh Man the Computer Quit!!
 
Good ideas....

The motherboard is not parrallel to the pci slots. Beat her....hmmm....thought about it once or twice then the whole clean up and stuff. I have thought about making it "crash" but she sees curtains and throw pillows as a higher priority than a new computer. How do I find out what processor my computer will take? 2 hard drives will fit btw. The mother board looks normal size.
 
ok.. you pc has low profile pci slots, right?
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( the smaller metal plate on the backside of the card etc )

for the processor, http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4181.html
that program tell's you about all the spec's of your pc :)
looks for what socket it is.. if you dont want to upgrade your motherboard, maybe get a better processor for the same socket ( Celeron was Pentium, right? :o )

anyhow.. it could be indeed that your motherboard is ATX.. if so, you could also get a new motherboard ( with onboard grafic's card, then you dont have to worry about getting a low profile one ), a new CPU and RAM.
most likely the PSU in that case is enough to handle that, if you dont put something too power consuming into it :)
 
PC info

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Bus Width 64-bit
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Real Clock 100 MHz (QDR)
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Effective Clock 400 MHz
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Platform ID 0Fh (Socket 478)
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Motherboard Name Intel Rexburg D845GRG
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Motherboard Size 210 mm x 240 mm
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Motherboard Chipset i845G
I don't know how to put a screen shot on here--probably not necessary. Can I work with what I have?
 
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