hi, wondering if yous can help im trying now to upgrade my mobo from agp to pci-e. the motherboard i currently have is Asus p4p800-e deluxe (specs) www.digital-daily.com/motherboard/asus-p4p800-e/ The motherboard i am thinking of getting is a Albatron PX915P4C Pro (specs) www.albatron.com.tw/english/it/mb/specification.asp?pro_id=160 (hope the links work). Anyway could someone please help me with this? would my P4 cpu (socket 478), memory (ddr), i have sata hd so thats cool and i have 550 atx power supply etc would most of my old stuff go in to the new mobo. If you compare the links above hopefully you could advise me on what to do. cheers in advance. Marching On Together

Albatron is an "also-ran" manufacturer. Their online support of their older models is poor or non-existant. PCChips mboards quality varies from as good as others to poor, and their support of older models is also erratic, though they do support models older than Albatron does. There are lots of other mboard makers that are more likely to give you better online support and be still around in the future. As far as whether your present cpu can be used in a new mboard, if you don't see it listed in a cpu support list for a model, other manufacturers may have more complete cpu support lists. As far as whether you can use the ram you already have in a new mboard, it must be compatible with the new mboard - it might not be. See response 5 in this: http://www.computing.net/hardware/w...

Upgrading your current 478 motherboard to another 478 motherboard just because you want a PCI-E video card interface is not very smart. The 478 Socket is already history and getting another one is pointless. The AGP on the other hand is yet to be totally written off, this is due mostly to the fact that PCI-E cards do not outperform their AGP counterparts. Your best bet is to hold on to what you have now-depending on your current AGP video card is like or get a faster AGP card like the 7600GT if you do have a crappy video card at the moment. On the other hand, if you are so fixated on changing your motherboard, you should go for a complete overhaul of your system, that means a newer PCI-E motherboard (not 478), faster CPU, PCI-E video card, RAM and possibly PSU (depending on the specs of the one you currently have).