Quote Originally Posted by Vladimir
I need to appeal to the tech gurus for advice on replacing my ancient motherboard. I have given up on trying to find a 400-some pin processor that will fit and I know where to get a Pentium 4 on the cheap. I would like to be able to have my current hardware work on the new board. I would like the following:

Processor: Pentium 4 2.40 GHz 1MB Le-cache, 533 MHz FSB, PGA-478
Ram: 1.024 GHz DDR PC 2100
Graphics Card: NVIDA GeForce FX 5500

to be compatable with the new board. Is there something out there that would make this possible?
I've got to assume that GeForce FX5500 fits in an AGP slot, so your motherboard choices are going to be pretty narrow. Newegg only delivered three hits (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...k=&srchInDesc=), plus a fourth here
(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130062).
Of the four choices, I'd probably opt for the MSI due to the Intel 865 chipset, but if a full-size board is wanted, then the ASUS (with SiS chipset) looks pretty good also.