CyberKID
In search for Tech Gyan!
Hello Guys, Greetings!
I have a six year old desktop at home, which died a few days back (Oh! sorry to say before completing its 7th year). The Configuration was:
Motherboard: MSI 915GLM-V
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 EE (516 or 517) with HT
RAM: 1.5 GB DDR 400
HDD: 580 GB (80 GB WD IDE - Which houses my OS'es + 500 GB Seagate SATA II which has everything containing my Program Files, Software backups, Movie & Music Backups etc...)
PSU: 450 Watt Zebronics (which I swapped for the stock 250 Watt PSU at the time of purchasing)
Now the issue is that I want to revive my PC. As far as I've understood, the culprit behind the death of my PC is the PSU (as it killed another motherboard I connected to it). After days of searching for a compatible motherboard, I came across the Intel 965 chipset based motherboards, which were the last chipset supporting the Pentium 4 processors (I found this out at intel's website in compatible products list of the Pentium 4 517 processor's support page Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 517 supporting HT Technology (1M Cache, 2.93 GHz, 533 MHz FSB). But when I searched the Wikipedia's page of Intel Chipsets (It didn't list Pentium 4 supported by Intel 965 chipset.
Now I'm totally confused, whether I should go on searching the Motherboard Intel 965 chipset based or should consider Intel 945 based Mobo's. It is evident that both are not readily available, but I'll still try as I feel that there's enough firepower still left in my proccy (which is an Intel Extreme Edition processor, thus capable of being overclocked upto 3.6 Ghz). I'll need to buy the DDR2 RAM modules also, as my current DDR1 modules are not compatible with my system.
Although I intended to eventually upgrade my system in a few months to an core i7 based one, but didn't expect to do it so soon. In order to keep things going, I'd like to revive this one for now. As of now I intend to make a sustainable purchase decision, which will be helpful in my future planned upgrade (the current SATA II HDD and the new PSU which I'll need to purchase will be used in the new system).
I'd like help from the forum members to please suggest whether I should go in for the 965 based Chipset (if any one is using such a config). I'm expecting to spend anywhere between 8 to 10K (for the Mobo, DDR-2 Ram and the PSU. Please guys don't suggest me to save for the planned upgrade (as I'm planning to do the upgrade early 2013). and need something till then.
I have a six year old desktop at home, which died a few days back (Oh! sorry to say before completing its 7th year). The Configuration was:
Motherboard: MSI 915GLM-V
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 EE (516 or 517) with HT
RAM: 1.5 GB DDR 400
HDD: 580 GB (80 GB WD IDE - Which houses my OS'es + 500 GB Seagate SATA II which has everything containing my Program Files, Software backups, Movie & Music Backups etc...)
PSU: 450 Watt Zebronics (which I swapped for the stock 250 Watt PSU at the time of purchasing)
Now the issue is that I want to revive my PC. As far as I've understood, the culprit behind the death of my PC is the PSU (as it killed another motherboard I connected to it). After days of searching for a compatible motherboard, I came across the Intel 965 chipset based motherboards, which were the last chipset supporting the Pentium 4 processors (I found this out at intel's website in compatible products list of the Pentium 4 517 processor's support page Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor 517 supporting HT Technology (1M Cache, 2.93 GHz, 533 MHz FSB). But when I searched the Wikipedia's page of Intel Chipsets (It didn't list Pentium 4 supported by Intel 965 chipset.
Now I'm totally confused, whether I should go on searching the Motherboard Intel 965 chipset based or should consider Intel 945 based Mobo's. It is evident that both are not readily available, but I'll still try as I feel that there's enough firepower still left in my proccy (which is an Intel Extreme Edition processor, thus capable of being overclocked upto 3.6 Ghz). I'll need to buy the DDR2 RAM modules also, as my current DDR1 modules are not compatible with my system.
Although I intended to eventually upgrade my system in a few months to an core i7 based one, but didn't expect to do it so soon. In order to keep things going, I'd like to revive this one for now. As of now I intend to make a sustainable purchase decision, which will be helpful in my future planned upgrade (the current SATA II HDD and the new PSU which I'll need to purchase will be used in the new system).
I'd like help from the forum members to please suggest whether I should go in for the 965 based Chipset (if any one is using such a config). I'm expecting to spend anywhere between 8 to 10K (for the Mobo, DDR-2 Ram and the PSU. Please guys don't suggest me to save for the planned upgrade (as I'm planning to do the upgrade early 2013). and need something till then.