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

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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

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

zach, the reason im replacing the mb is because its giving me trouble. a few of the ram slots dont even work. the thing is just full of dust and unstable. sometimes it doesnt even find my 2 hdd. i dont have my windows cd or any of my drivers with me so it will suck if i have to reinstall everything. anyway, thanks guys, ill write down some of these suggestions. i very much appriciate your expertise.

If you replace the motherboard you will have to reinstall everything, period. There's no way around that fact, unless you replace with an identical motherboard/processor.
I looked at newegg and zinglebarb's right, there are new motherboards with AGP slots.
Though I wouldn't call it new though, I found you this one, fairly cheap and socket A so you can reuse your old processor (and maybe save yourself from reinstalling Windows, I'm not too sure...)

Newegg.com - PC CHIPS M848A (V5.0) 462(A) SiS 746FX ATX AMD Motherboard - AMD Motherboards
Or for more upgradability options in the future, there's this one, which features AGP & PCI-E as well as DDR & DDR2 slots
Newegg.com - ASRock 4CoreDual-SATA2 LGA 775 VIA PT880 Pro/PT880 Ultra ATX Intel Motherboard - Intel Motherboards

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If you are looking for a cheap system, i recommend this. And for those who complain about certain components, remember, i always do my research. (coughpowersupplycough)

Newegg.com - Thermaltake Swing VB6000BWS Black 0.8 mm SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Computer Cases

Newegg.com - GIGABYTE GA-MA69G-S3H AM2 AMD 690G HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard - AMD Motherboards

Newegg.com - SAPPHIRE 100195L Radeon X1650 512MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Desktop Graphics / Video Cards

Newegg.com - KINGWIN ABT-450MM ATX 12V Ver.2.2 450W Power Supply 115/ 230 V CB, CE, FCC, cUL, RoHS - Power Supplies

Newegg.com - A-DATA 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Desktop Memory

Newegg.com - AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Brisbane 2.5GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Processor - CPUs / Processors

Newegg.com - Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic SP1 32-bit English 1pk DSP OEI DVD - Operating Systems (XP is discontinued this summer, so upgrading to vista is inevitable D= )

Total (w/o shipping)- $444.94

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Hey there AW!
The user just wants a new motherboard, processor, & ram.
They'd like to keep everything else, including their AGP video card & PCI soundcard
As for Vista, yuck, I'd rather get XP (or if needed by citizen, 2000) on ebay
...I'm anti-vista btw...

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