Rebuilding Old Computer

Staying with Intel or switching to AMD ? What case you got now Full or Micro ATX ? How much are you willing to spend right now ? Overall I'd suggest a cheap Socket 754 entry level combo with a medium-low end AGP video card. ‹•¿•›.......Do not type anything in this space.......‹•¿•›

for grafix, go somewhere between a geforce6200/radion x600 to a geforce 6600gt/radion x700. that is if you want to keep a small budget. but, what ever you do for the cpu, make sure you get a 64bit core if you plan to upgrade the cpu. to answer your question about the drives and cables, you could keep them, and use them. but at anyrate, you will have to reinstall windows ir you get a new mobo and cpu. p4 3.0ghz @ 222X15=3330mhz 512mb pc3200 dual channel @222mhz 80gb wd hdd/40gb maxtor when on linux 8x agp geforce 6200 @ 530/585can't unlock extra pipes. plz help if you can Audigy 2 ZS<b

"Now, if I did just that would I be able to use the rest of the parts from my current computer. Drives, cables etc.? I would then upgrade the other parts which I believe are easier to do one by one beginning with the video card." Yes but be careful with video card to be sure mb takes pci express or 8 Agp etc...more posts on that here than anything. Andy why save old cables? They cost nothing and last like that. Drives can be transferred unless some cheapo bizarre cdrw will drive decent OS banans trying to locate. You have to remember Emachine is cheap and disposable, so what ius in it, accomodates that. A Wd hard drive will be a WD hard drive, but a cdrw, well finding that inexpensively is the "meat" of what they do and they have the bucks to make some piece of junk completely compatible with that one system only.

Assuming your old case can be reused, I suggest the following upgrade. Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo4 nForce4 CPU: AMD 64 3000+ (Venice core if you can) RAM: 512 (Any brands will do) Video card: Sapphire X600 PRO 128MB PCI-E Don't go for 256MB, it's not worth it. PSU: 350W More than enough unless you really have a lot of hardware.

Thanks for the advice guys. Really appreciate it. I I'll have to do some more research but now I have some models to look into. Thanks. I love this place!