M/B on old home computer has gone - options

mattgaunt

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Hey everyone,

As the title says the old motherboard on the home computer has kicked it - the computer (if I recall correctly) had 1GB of ram, an AMD 64 bits processor (probs sometihng like 3.4GHz) on a Gigabyte M/B.

Now obviously I could just replace the M/B but do people think it's worth it? It wasn't particularly fast (not helped by only 1GB of RAM I admit) but do people think it would be cheaper to buy a new processor (Intel dual core) and new M/B with some more RAM or buying a new pre-built computer?

Reason I say that is because the computer only gets used for e-mails, word processing, web surfing and lots of crafting stuff (i.e. photo shop type programs).

So it would need a bit of a kick behind but not too much.

So yeah just wondered what people thought about it all

Cheers
 
For a new intel build you'll need a new cpu and motherboard atleast... Surely it would be cheaper to buy a replacement motherboard and a little more ram if possible?
 
The budget is as little as possible but worthwhile.

Im happy just getting a new M/B I just wanted your guys opinions? I got my mum to give the computer to a local computer shop to test out what was wrong with it and they said it was the motherboard.

My biggest fear is they have got it wrong and it's the processor that is dead not the M/B.

But yeah only reason I mentioned the dual core processor is just that while Im getting a new M/B is it worth going to full lot or not?
 
If you can get a new motherboard of the right socket type for the CPU and you actually only use it for email etc then why spend good money on a whole new PC or even on the CPU mobo and memory?
 
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