i am building my first computer and am a little confused i baught a Western Digital 160GB 7200RPM 8MB SATA/150 HDD (hard drive) and want a AMD athlon 3000+ or higher. i need help picking my motherbord and am not sure if my hard drive type matters or not. i also want to know if the motherbord has onbord audio can i still put a sound card on it. thanks for your help....
what should i do
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Since you have an SATA drive, you need to make sure the mobo has SATA, or you'll have to purchase a card for this. Most new mobo's seem to have this now.
As for audio, it shouldn't be a problem to upgrade. You just have to make sure the onboard sound is disabled...
As for audio, it shouldn't be a problem to upgrade. You just have to make sure the onboard sound is disabled...
yes you are. but that's okay. we all were once.mlitz said:
you want a 64 bit processor I assume. I think I would rec an AMD 939 socket proc.mlitz said:
if you get a 64 bit proc then i could say a MSI Neo 2 Platinum would be the way to go. it has SATA, onboard sound...and all that fun stuff. it doesn't cook your breakfast, but close.mlitz said:
when you look at the specs on the motherboard you should take everything into prospective because that is what you are going to be able to do to you computer.
First thing is you got to make sure the Socket on the motherboard matches the Socket on the CPU that you want to buy. A motherboard with Socket 939 will fit a 939-pin CPU, and a socket 754 will fit a cpu with 754-pin. The specs on the motherboard will say usually SATA (Yes SATA is serial ATA) and tell you how many of them are on the motherboard. Everything you get will half to match what your motherboard has on it. So from my experience from building my first computer I first picked out my CPU and then got a motherboard with the same socket type. Some people might do it the other way and get the motherboard first I danno but this is how I did it.
First thing is you got to make sure the Socket on the motherboard matches the Socket on the CPU that you want to buy. A motherboard with Socket 939 will fit a 939-pin CPU, and a socket 754 will fit a cpu with 754-pin. The specs on the motherboard will say usually SATA (Yes SATA is serial ATA) and tell you how many of them are on the motherboard. Everything you get will half to match what your motherboard has on it. So from my experience from building my first computer I first picked out my CPU and then got a motherboard with the same socket type. Some people might do it the other way and get the motherboard first I danno but this is how I did it.
Ok just so you're clear, that's a Socket754 setup you're getting there and furthermore it's a K8T800 setup ... not the best of chipsets. For a similar price there are some alternatives:
- Giagbyte GAK8NS
- MSI K8N Neo FSR