i am not sure its worth it

It's your call.

We are here to help, if you need it. We just can't come over and do it for you. Specially when it's hardware related which this one was.

Good luck with future computers.

thanks alot for your help

might just but a new bare bone pc with motherboard and cpu and add my own stuff to it this time

Sounds like a plan.

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once again thanks for the help mate only wish i hadnt have played about with things but i guess thats how you learn

i am looking at a gx260 dell optiplex bare bone will they take all my upgrades as in my 256Mb agp graphics card my 1gb ram and ide hdd

and desktop dvd drive

Please open a new thread with that question in the appropriate forum.

And, always glad to be of service.

I agree with Gandalf,open another thread in diffrent part of forum or you thread may get a little lost under your chosen above title.And to help get the right advice for you.

Why IDE HDD?Choose SATA?