Hey basically I have quite an old computer and I just need it to last me another year. It is a prebuilt system I got 6/7 years ago so it is very old and I need a new psu and motherboard as the psu is massively underpowered and my current motherboard is on the way out (the heatsink keeps dropping of it and I keep on having to stick it back on with thermal tape). The mobo I have at the moment is a
ASUSTek Computer Inc. P4SD-VX, as it is OEM it is really hard to get much info about it off the internet. The mobo I am looking at getting at the moment is here: (it's my first post so can't put URLs in, so just add WWW to the text below.
scan.co.uk/Products/ASRock-ASR-P4I65GV-MOBO-S478
I know next to nothing about PCs and I just want to know that all of the current components I have will be compatable with this new mobo (the ASrock one).
I am pretty certain my current CPU will be fine with it, it is a 2.8ghz p4 Northword 800mhz FSB. This mobo is the correct socket and supports 800FSB with HT so that should be fine.
What I am worried about is whether the RAM, Hard drive and the disk drives I have at the moment with be compatable.
My current RAM is DDR, which is the memory this mobo requires but the RAM I have at the moment is 200mhz and on the specs for the mobo it says DDR 266, 333 or 400. So will my old RAM work with this, if it doesn't I am not too fussed about buying new cheap stuff that will work as it ain't that much.
The other concern is all of my drives. My hard drive and my DVD RW and DVD ROM plus my floppy all have an IDE interface. Will all of that work with this motherboard, I mean will it support all of that?
Finally, last question, I think I caused the heatsink problem on my last mobo when I fitted a 6600gt a couple of years ago. Do you think there is enough room between heatsink and AGP slot on this new mobo to fit my 6600gt. There is a picture of the mobo on the scan page I posted above.
Also my mate has a HD 3850 he is thinking of giving to me, do you reckon that would fit on the mobo without interfering with the heatsink as well?
Sorry for this long post, even if someone could just answer one or two of the questions that would be a great help and just any problems they think I might have changing to this mobo.


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