I am planning to buy and Intel Pentium 4 3.2 GHz 640 socket 775 for £55 and a:
Intel Desktop Board D945GTP - motherboard - micro ATX - i945G
Form Factor: Micro ATX
Chipset Type: Intel 945G Express / Intel ICH7R
Max Bus Speed: 1066 MHz
Processor: 0 (1) - LGA775 Socket
Compatible Processors: Pentium, Pentium 4, Celeron D
RAM: 0 MB (installed) / 4 GB (max)
Supported RAM Technology: DDR II SDRAM
Storage Controller: ATA-100, Serial ATA-300 (RAID)
Graphics Controller: Intel GMA 950 Dynamic Video Memory Technology 3.0
Audio Output: Sound card - 7.1 channel surround
Networking: Network adapter - Intel PRO/100 - Ethernet, Fast Ethernet.
I was wondering whether my computer was compatible (system details below) with this hardware. If my system is not compatible will I be able to upgrade to be compatible with the new processor and the new motherboard. For less than £200
MY SYSTEM

Current Processor: AMD AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+ 2210.1 MHz


Current Motherboard:

CPU
socket AM2 Athlon 64X2/ Athlon 64FX/ Athlon 64/ Sempron
Chipset
NVIDIA nForce 570 Ultra MCP
System Bus
2000/1600 MT/s
Memory
Support Max 8GB DDR2 800/667/533 ECC and non memory, Dual Channel memory architecture

Expansion slots
1xPCI-e x16 slot
1xPCI-e x4 slot
2x PCI-e x1 slots
3x PCI 2.2
Other ASUS value added features
Fanless design: Heat-pipe Thermal Solution ASUS Crystal Sound – noise filter
Gigabit LAN controllers AI NAP AI Gear

Memory - 1.00 GB

DirectX - 9.0c

Display device – (NVIDIA GeForce 6200 TurboCache™)

Display Memory – 512

Display Driver - 6.14.10.9131

Sound Device - SoundMAX HD Audio

Sound Driver - 5.10.01.4530a-00.01.00

Operating System - Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)

Hard Drive – Maxtor 6V080E0 – 80GB

Hello Dumpy0, and welcome to the forum.
Im a little confused at what youre trying to do here. Are you planning to take the asus/AMD board out of your case, and install the Intel board ? What is the model of your asus board? You may be better off to upgrade the AMD processor, if your board will support a faster one.

I am trying to replace the ASUS board with the Intel board and replace the Athlon processor with the intel processor. I would go with the Athlon processors but the speed that I want (3GHz+) are about 2.5X more expensive than what i want to do. I can get the Intel CPU and motherboard for about £130 and the athlon CPU is about £330.

The model of my motherboard I think is MNE-2 or something like that.

An athlon single core processor even if it has lower ghz rating is faster and better than an intel pentium 4. Just look at this comparison:

Videos | Tom's Hardware

You are better off just staying with your AMD processor it is far superior to an intel pentium4.

Chris

Upgrader has it right..

if you want to go towards intel - you'd be silly not to save up your money and get a Core2Duo...

they're on top of the market atm - being the best for games.

They are thats why i bought one

But what if a program says it will work on a Intel P4 2.4GHz CPU will it work on a 2.2GHz Athlon 64 CPU? Is it worth saving up for a AMD dual core? It would mean not having buy a new motherboard and being able to buy a better one!