Looking for a motherboard

[jdsfighter]

Hey sythe, I am looking for a motherboard for my system.

I have a HP Pavilion a703w. Right now it is pretty much stock except I added 1gb of DDR memory. I am looking for a motherboard that I can pretty much just move everything over to the new board and install it in my system.

You see my parents got me a Nvidia 9600 for christmas, but unfortunately I don't have a PCIe slot. I need a motherboard that I can put my celeron processor in and move my RAM over.

Also I am on a budget of about $200. I can exceed, but I don't want to go much over. If at all possible I don't want to have to reformat the system. I just want to have my Nvidia in the system and my ram.

 

[elf5380]

:O celeron is ancient, however if im not mistaken, any socket 775 board can handle it aswell as your new graphics card, on the downside im not sure if it will take your old school DDR ram tho. TBH you should look into upgrading your CPU RAM and mobo lol...Greetz on the new card btw

 

[jdsfighter]

How about

Motherboard:
MSI P6NGM-L LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce7050 / nForce610i Micro ATX Intel Motherboard - $49.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16813130130

Ram:
Kingston 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - $41.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16820134193

Processor:
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 Wolfdale 2.8GHz 3MB L2 Cache LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor - $139.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819115206


Total Cost: $231.97

If I skip the processor: $91.98

Along with

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817226007

 

[elf5380]

Nice finds, those should all work together, i would get some second advice if i were you, because after all, im no expert and its always nice to double check.

Good luck on your quest for a good PC!