Noodleman Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 Olla, Looks like my faithful PC of 6 years is on life support I really have shit all money at the moment, so I am thinking just buy a new motherboard, CPU and RAM and stick my old HDD's, Graphics card and audio card in. I've been out of the PC game for a while now so don't really know where to start components wise as everything is so much better than what I currentley have so any help muchos appreciated. I would ideally like to spend £200 on this but could push up to £250 (not including any OS budget) if it was a really excellent deal. I would like to have something capable of running Windows 7 will this be possible for that kind of budget? My graphics card is a GeForce 6200 AGP do motherboards still come with AGP slots? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 No, motherboards don't come with AGP anymore, but you can get one with an integrated chipset and be fine. Since sites that aren't newegg make my headhurt I'm not going to price check or post links sorry. Being on a budget I'd recommend you go AMD. Something like the 7750 is a good CPU for a pretty good price. The motherboard, I'd suggest something based on the 760G chipset, it has integrated graphics and is compatible and should get you by. RAM, I'd say you could likely get by with just 2-3GB, are you on XP or Vista? If XP just 2 would be grand, Vista 2 would work but I'd recommend 3. Just some DDR2 800 would work, great. You'll have to ask someone else, since I'm not sure, but idk how much your HDD will like the sudden switch, plus I'm not sure about the connectors, you likely aren't on SATA, and I'm not sure if many new mobo's have the older (molex I think) connection. I think there may be adpaters though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noodleman Posted July 18, 2009 Author Share Posted July 18, 2009 Thanks for the help. I've been doing a bit of googling and have found this bundle: http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?MBB-E52G31 It looks alright to me, then ill just have to add a graphics card to it. Having been on the Intel website the motherboard still appears to have 2 IDE connectors on it so the HDD's and my DVD player should be fine surely. However it says its a Micro ATX Form factor. Does this mean it wont fit in my old bog standard ATX case? I am currently on XP but i'll probably download the Windows 7 trial to begin with and get the full version if its any good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 That bundle has on-board graphics if you don't want to get an actual card. As for Micro ATX and ATX, it depends on the case. Some cases will allow for either motherboard to be installed, while others can only do one or the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Konfucius Posted July 18, 2009 Share Posted July 18, 2009 I just wanted to point out that the picture you posted really made me rofl. That bundle looks pretty decent, but keep in mind it's a 32 bit processor, so you can't use more than 4 GB of RAM. You probably want to get a new graphics card though to see Windows 7 in all its glory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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