I'm no longer a hardware guy and never really was, but I had built a server for web hosting some years ago and now am on such a tight budget that I need some help.
Basically, I have a Supermicro dual CPU motherboard:
X5DPL-iGM
I have 2 gigs of DDR333 ram (that's what it says on the ram sticks, ~500 megs each, 4 of them)
I have two xeon pentium 3 2.8ghz cpus (or something along those lines).
Anyways, the system works all-right but this motherboard does not have pci-express and I want to turn it into the best gaming laptop I can afford right now.
However, I have no idea if these cpus and memory will work on a variety of other motherboards i'm looking at, so any recommendations and expertise is really appreciated.
I was looking at this motherboard:
SE7320VP2
which is pretty cheap and seems to support my components. However, I don't quite understand the riser slot thing - will it support my wireless network card and a new video card via pciexpress?
Alternatively, my current motherboard has PCI-X slots but I don't know if any good video cards can be found for that, so I'd rather spend 70 bucks on a new motherboard and another 100 on a new video card to make the machine pretty good for my needs.
Thanks, and please don't baselessly recommend an alternate solution unless it's like an under 200 dollar solution (eg, "what are you diong that for? go buy a new laptop for 500 bucks!" or "that's a stupid thing to do. your machine will be slower than a mac!")
Thanks!


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