C2D micro-ATX boards

ambro25

Hey guys and gals,

Now sold all my projects, bits and bobs, odds and ends, and my office/den is now barren and deserted save for my desktop and my laptop (and a spare 19" HP P930 CRT - anyone want one? )

I'm now "allowed" (by the Mrs ) to "have only one" (project/hobby/...).So I may as well upgrade my rig in readiness for Vista, QW etc.

Thing is, I'm thinking of keeping the case, the multicard reader (@ front, under flap, can't see it on the linkie'd page), and the optical/magnetic drives (1xFDD, 1x DVD-RW, 1xDVD) and ditch the mobo (K8N S754) cpu (A64 3000+) ram (1GB PC2700) graphics (9800XT), and buy an enclosure for the nearly new 200GB IDE.

Which means a micro-ATX core 2 duo mobo, C2D cpu, DDR2 ram, Sata HDD and probably a 8800-something for (some) future proofing.

Any issues with doing that, anyone used one of these on here yet...?

Should I just flog the entire box on Adverts.ie and start from scratch?

Pros and cons, please, for a decidedly undecided chap

8T8

Not a bad looking case though I doubt the PSU is up to the job so that would need to be replaced I think.

Motherboard mATX G965 - comes with integrated graphics and PCI-e x16 slot for graphics card.

CPU Core 2 of your choice/budget really, I'd suggest E6400 or E6600.

RAM 2GB of DDR-2 667

Hard drive Western Digital SE16 400GB

Seasonic S12 600W power supply

As for graphics card well that largely depends on how big a gamer you are not much point in getting an 8800GTS card if you don't really use it all that much still that's near the cheapest DX10 class card you can get at the moment, cheaper models are on their way though next month but lower performance of course.