need mobo + proc recommendation
 

I have a computer that was given to me not working. I think either the mobo or processor is bad. I have a shuttle board in it right now with an intel p4 1.6ghz proc. I am thinking that right now its probly cheaper and easier to just buy a new board and processor.

Is there some good combos avilable somewhere? I tried to look at newegg but I couldnt find a page where they just had mobo+proc combos. It was all that free gift crap.

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sorry, i posted in the wrong forum. please move to the tilted computers forum. thanks.

What are you looking for in the new motherboard and processor? Do you want another 1.6 GHz P4, or do you want better? What's your pricerange?

-Lasereth

for decent performance for a cheap cost, the shuttle Nforce 2 board with like a 2600 shouldn't run you much.

im looking to spend $150 or less for the motherboard and proc.

I just want the most bang for buck at that price range. Onboard lan is not necessary but nice, onboard sound would be a plus but not required. Dont need sata or ide raid. I also have an AMD XP 1800+ on a soyo k7v dragon+ mobo with 2x60gb maxtor drives and onboard sound/lan. I think it only has usb 1.1 though. I dont remember which it has but it has either a radeon 9500 or a gainward geforce 3 ti 200 in it.

What I am going to do is turn one of these boxes into a linux box and the other will go to my fiance. She will use it for web browsing, writing documents, misc crap. No games though. The linux box will be a miscellaneous. FTP/HTTP possibly SMTP and NNTP. compiling c running perl. php dev box. cvs server. Just a whole sleuth of misc linux stuff to play around with.

any recommendations.

same as I mention above. I believe both from Newegg should cost you about $145 shipped for a Shuttle Nforce2 board, and a athlon 2600+.

Oh I'm an Intel guy also, and I don't have a problem recomending a AMD to you because it will do exactly what you want.

Ok, how bout this then: AMD Athlon XP 2500+ "Barton", 333 FSB, 512K Cache Processor - Retail - $96.00
ABIT "NF7-S2" nForce2 Ultra 400 Chipset Motherboard For AMD Socket A CPU -RETAIL - $69.18
Total: $165.18 - best combo you can get for around $150, IMO.

I have an NF7-S right now. Whats the difference with it compared to the NF7-S2? Also, I have a barton 2500. Im thinking I cou8ld upgrade my CPU to a 2800. If I could upgrade my CPU I would be willing to drop a little more coin. In other words, Ill put the 2500+nf7-s in the messed computer and put the new nf7-s2 and amd ??00 mhz in my main comp.

what u think? Whats the best bang for buck cpu?