I've decided to replace the motherboard in my old HP Pavilion xt926 in order to get a better CPU and more RAM. I'm looking for one that will fullfil my needs now but is upgradeable in the future. It has to be a micro ATX 244mmX244mm.
In order to spread the cost of upgrading I want to keep my old peripherals and replace them one at a time, but I'm not sure if they will work with the new motherboard. For example: - My Hard drive is a sony CRX200AD. It uses ATAPI (EIDE compliant) interface. The new motherboards I'm looking have an IDE controller and have one IDE slot which is ultra ATA/133 (ATA-7). Will My hard drive work?
Yes it will is the short answer.
Were I in your shoes I would look at three things at once to give you better options along the road.
First. A better case with a decently rated power supply
Reason is to give you more space to add items (extra hard drives rom drives better video card and a whole lot of other benefits later
Two. A motherboard that has many ram AND io (pci pci-e etc)
slots as possible within your budget.
Reason as for case but also expandability with regard memory and video.
Three. An intel cpu.
Reason durability, compatibility, and all round long term reliability.
I know there are those that might disagree with 3. but in my experience I have had less issues with intel in business environments than AMD
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Yes it will
Call tigerdirect.com they can supply the board and all the info.
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