Need a new motherboard and tower

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Hey everyone. Looking for some suggestions. I need to replace my mother board and tower. This system was built in 2001 and was one of the best in it's time. This is waht it is right now. The motherboard has amd athlon processor 1.19ghz 1g of ram. creamware pulsar 2. matrox millennium g450 dual head and it runs windows xp pro service pack 3. What i want to do is jusst replace the motherboard, tower and power supply. Then plug my hard drives, scope fusion, creamware into it. Anyone got any suggestions for the best products for this? I run nuendo2, reason and wavelab. I get great recordings and I know the software well. So I really don't want to change.

Pat
 
bouldersounds said:
Hey everyone. Looking for some suggestions. I need to replace my mother board and tower. This system was built in 2001 and was one of the best in it's time. This is waht it is right now. The motherboard has amd athlon processor 1.19ghz 1g of ram. creamware pulsar 2. matrox millennium g450 dual head and it runs windows xp pro service pack 3. What i want to do is jusst replace the motherboard, tower and power supply. Then plug my hard drives, scope fusion, creamware into it. Anyone got any suggestions for the best products for this? I run nuendo2, reason and wavelab. I get great recordings and I know the software well. So I really don't want to change.

Pat
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You're going to have a tough time finding a motherboard that has the requisite PCI slots for your cards and IDE headers for your old hard drives. The standards have changed since you built your computer.

It'll be a LOT easier if you upgrade your hard drives and optical drives at the same time. Mind you your old memory isn't going to work on a new motherboard either.

It would be much easier to recommend something if you gave an idea as to what your budget was.
 
You can find "Universal" motherboards which have both the old and new PCI slots.
But not easily.
 
TheGuitarMan said:
You're going to have a tough time finding a motherboard that has the requisite PCI slots for your cards and IDE headers for your old hard drives. The standards have changed since you built your computer.

It'll be a LOT easier if you upgrade your hard drives and optical drives at the same time. Mind you your old memory isn't going to work on a new motherboard either.

It would be much easier to recommend something if you gave an idea as to what your budget was.
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Difficult situation indeed. While it's easy to replace the hard drives with SATA, especially if you have all the original installation CDs, the PCI situation is gonna be the difficult one. And as far as I know there is no PCIe version of the Pulsar, and if I was the OP, that's not something I'd want to ditch. Awesome card indeed.

However, if you stick with AMD processors, you should still be able to find motherboards with both PCI and PCIe slots. There are some choices out there.
 
You know, for what it's worth, you may be better off just upgrading period. I built a new computer and all tolled it cost about $500, and that got me a smokin fast machine with loads of ram and hard drive space. Have you looked at the bare bone kits from Newegg or Tigerdirect?
http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCategory.aspx?SubCategory=3&name=Barebone-Systems
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_tlc.asp?CatId=31&name=Barebone-Kits
Sounds like you know what you are doing if you can change the motherboard.
 
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