New Motherboard headache
Ok. So I have an Acer PC with Radeon x700, DDR1 2gb ram, and athlon x2 3800 2.0ghz. It's time for an upgrade!
I'm currently planning on buying:
GPU: 8800 GT, 512MB GDDR3
RAM: PC-6400 800mhz, 2048MB DDR2
CPU: Intel E8400, 3.0GHz
with a good 450W PSU.
Simple enough.
But when I start looking at motherboards (and reviews), I get a headache. I have NO IDEA about anything. It's like jumping into water pool, with needles, looking for the blue needle. Thing is, I can't swim.
Can anyone help me here? I need a Motherboard that works. I don't give a flying pig about overclocking. I want simply that everything works, for the cheapest possible price. I don't want SLI or any of that. That said; I want to play the top games.
Also; since I'm using an Acer PC, my OP is XP Media Center edition - will swapping the Motherboard screw my XP license? If yes, can it be fixed by contacting Acer?
Now the third problem is product availability. If I don't wanna pay huge import tax fee's, I'm pretty much restricted to www.komplett.no.
Could anyone be kind enough and help me? I might be stupid or something, but I've really tried hard to find a decently priced motherboard for said components, and all I found was that I need to flash the BIOS and **** to make stuff work. I'm scared that if I take something, it won't work. Not too fun to pay $10 shipping fees each return.
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