Which board for a very basic machine?

sup2jzgte

sup2jzgte

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So I'm going to be building a PC to replace my parents 6 year old HP.........which might I add has been more than a work horse, this thing has been through hell and back many times and has NEVER crashed. So I have the following parts floating around about 10gigs of DDR2, a few spare cases, a 350 watt PSU, XP and Vista OS's. Now I'm in search of a motherboard and I have narrowed it down to the following:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186155

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186151

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128333

The CPU will be an AMD X2 5000.

This unit is going to be used for Internet, internet, internet........and some more internet lol, oh and did I mention internet? Online poker. I'm more than likely going to put XP Home on here or MAYBE Windows 7 Beta, I'm not sure.

Now i understand these are nowhere near great board, but I'm looking more for reliability more than anything else. I have always use High end Gigabyte and Asus boards but honestly I'm looking to get away with as cheap as possible with this because I'm doing this just because...........and generally PC's that go into their never see the light of day again and get abused more than any pc should :(
 
I personally think the Foxconn A74MX-K would be the best of the 3, the Gigabyte is only AM2, not AM2+ (One gen older)

If anyone saw what I had said before, apologies, completely wrong, mixed up two threads
 
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Ok so this is what I will be replacing HP 544N (Celeron 2.0, 512MB RAM and 40Gig HD) with the following:

Foxconn A74MX-K

AMD Athlon X2 BE-2300 Brisbane 1.9GHz

2Gigs of PC2-5300

120Gig WD HD

Running XP


So how much faster is the new unit going to be in comparison to the old? Now mind you this unit is going to be used for internet surfing, online poker, ebay, pictures, music and downloading and very few games. What are your thoughts? Oh and this entire build is going to cost me $86 lol.
 
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