Upgrade My Computer - Please help =)

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Nightblaze1 wrote:

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Chainer wrote:

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Nightblaze1 wrote:

Thank You heaps guys for all your suggestions.

Now I have one more little problem. My mate told me that I have to make sure that the motherboard will fit inside my PC case. How would i know if it does or doesn't?

All you have to really worry about is whether or not your case is tall enough. That motherboard you have right there is a standard ATX motherboard. Most cases (like 98% of them) will fit this kind. If you are really worried about it buy yourself a nice case too since you have to remove almost all of the components anyway to replace the motherboard.

On another forum someone said that i need sata ODD and sata HDD and my SPU needs to be 500 watts or some shit.

AHHH what is all this????

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Ignore what that person said. Your motherboard has a PATA 133 connector so you don't necessarily need a SATA hard disk drive or optical drive but they're much faster and so I suggest if you're still using IDE technologies to dump them and upgrade to SATA interface.

However, you will need a 500w power supply minimum. Take a peak into your rig and find your power supply's information. Try to find it's maximum wattage output and if it turns out to be less than 500w you're going to have to replace it.

All in all, it would be much easier on you to scrap the whole thing and build yourself an entirely new rig.