Switching from Socket A to 754/939?

[Ugley_Matt]

My motherboard has died so i am thinking that it might be time to switch to an Athlon 64 set-up. I currently have

Athlon 1700 xp @2000
2x256 3200 DDR Ram
Hercules 9800 Pro gfx
500W Jeantech ATX Psu
GlobalWin Case
60Gb seagate barracuda

Am i correct in thinking that if i went down the socket754/939 motherboard route then i will have to replace pretty much everything bar the memory (probably look to go to 1GB) and the hard drive?
Hopefully i could sell my older bits and pieces to fund the upgrade, not sure how much thats all worth though.
Is there a real disavantage to going Sempron (754)?

 

[Ugley_Matt]

Been reading up on that Asrock board and it does look to be the ideal solution for my situation, allows me to use my gfx card as its still got a few miles in it yet and it seems like a good board in itsself

I suppose it might be wise to upadate the PSU as that might have caused the original board to blow?