Re: New mobo in old ATX Penguin Computing box?

On 2006-05-12, General Schvantzkoph <schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The case is the least expensive part of the system, it's penny wise and
pound foolish to try to upgrade a system where the only thing that you are
saving is the case. Your power supply is dying do you have to replace
that. A new motherboard will require a new processor and new memory so
there is no savings possible there. Also new motherboards use PCIe
graphics, not AGP, so you'll need a new graphics card. There are some
motherboards still available that support AGP but they are using out
of date chipsets that don't support SATA-II so you really don't want
one of those. You could reuse your disks if you want, moving them from one
box to another is trivial, so the cost is the same if you remain in the
old box or go to a new one. What you should do is price a new system from
MonarchComputer.

Thanks for the reply,

This is actually a 2U rackmount so I'd be happy with whatever onboard
graphics card a new mobo would come with.

I figure if I gutted it, I'd need a new PS, mobo, processors, memory and
probably want to move the existing 9.1Gb U160 SCSI HDD to a SATA drive.
Right now, it's got a gig of PC100 memory in it.

I just don't want to replace the PS just to get the system back up only
to have some other piece of hardware die on me shortly thereafter which
is why I was thinking about gutting it. I'll take a look at Monarch to
see what they have but I was just wondering whether a new mobo would
actually fit in that chassis.

Thanks again!
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