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Hi,
After finding out the cost of a memeory upgrade and psu upgrade for my dell dimension 8250 Ive decided I have to rip out the dell components and build my own machine to atx standards. I would like to use the processor though so does anybody know a motherboard that would support the p4 chip?
Its a 3Ghz pentium 4 chip with 533mhz FSB for a dell dimension 8250. Im not sure what socket this is and dell wont tell me so any info ona mobo for this chip would be a great help!!
thanks
Romanov
Any 865/875 chipset based mobo. (you could use almost any 845 mobo, but would be a waste when the 865 mobos' are priced the same)
I would recommend an Abit IS-7they are cheap and would allow you to overclock that processor if you want for a little extra power.
you already have DDR memory, the drives, etc.
EDIT: just noticed 8250's have RDRAM so you need to buy DDR ram (get PC3200)
So all you need is a new case (with PSU), DDR, and motherboard.
:) thanks alot for the reply - that was quick!!! Sorry I didnt mention the rdram should have been obvious to me to mention it.
Thanks again :)
Ive got the Antec p160 case and will probably go for an antec power supply thwe 430 I think.