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Motherboard/Processor Advice

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Hey guys,

I'm thinking about installing a new motherboard and/or processor in my machine. What I've got in there now is an AOpen AX3S(Pro) and an Intel Pentium IIIE 800MHz. I was thinking about upping the pocessor to an AMD Sempron 2500+ or 2800+. I'm not positive on which motherboard this would fit in to, so if anybody could help me out on that I'd appreciate it. The motherboard has to have 4 or 5 PCI slots and an AGP slot for my NVIDIA video card.

Thanks a lot,
John
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Id take the athalon XP 2500+ too, get the barton core if you can, if there is one. They can easily overclock too much higher lkater on. As for mobo, again i agree with fishhookz, nforce 2 chipset at least. I like gigabyte myself but asus etc are all good, just make sure it is socket A.

You may also need new ram. What do you have alraedy? Again its justy see if the board supports it. Remember though you'll need a new heatsink. I dont think th eintel ones fir the amd processors?

What video card do you have?
If yo ugo gigabyte then alot of their boards that ive seen arent compatible with 2x or 1x agp, only 4x and 8x. Just to keep it in mind. They dont say it wont work, but give no gaurantees that it will either.
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