hi, i have an old abit kr7 with amd athlon with 2x 256 ram sticks. i use an old nvidia gpu that i dont care to replace and professional audio card for recording audio that i also want to keep. i only need the pc to work as an audio recording station. im on an almost nothing budget lol. are there any cheap motherboard, cpu, and memory combos that you suggest for audio recording. the only thing the old setup lacked was ram and cpu speed. oh and i have 2 ide hdds with win 2000 installed. any words of wisdom or suggertions will be appreciated. thanks

AM2 x2 cpu 4200 should do very cheap. Bog standard AM2 motherboard with onboard VGA make sure it has 2 ide ports 2 gig of decent ddr II

You will possibly need to reinstall the Operating System. When you switch a motherboard on a Microsoft operating it makes you need to reinstall. Dang Bill

it will if the chipsets by someone different yes

Hey citizen! If your card is AGP (in the brown slot) then you're pretty much out of luck, new motherboards generally don't have AGP slots anymore.
Instead of replacing your motherboard you can upgrade your ram, your board supports up to 3gb ram (though it has four slots...I don't understand that logic...)
What you might do is get 4 512mb sticks for 2gb ram, that should be plenty.
I can link some if you're interested

you can get boards with AGP slots but your will limit your choice.