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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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Well my video card should deffinately work on any new M/B. I just upgraded to a NVIDIA GeForce 5500 FX OC a few days ago. Right now on my AOpen M/B I've got 512 SDRAM but I would deffinately go up more if I got a new motherboard. Thanks for the suggestions, I've never shopped around for either processors or motherboards so this really helps. Thanks a lot!

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Hmm...now that I'm looking, how does an Athlon XP2700+ sound? It's only $30 more that the XP2500+ at CompUSA, and I can spare 30 bucks. AS for the MoBo, the ASUS A7N8X sounds awesome. The pricetag isn't a killer either. Also that ASUS board will support up to 3GB RAM. How much do you think I might need if I use my computer mostly for gaming?

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