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Okay, I finally have a job and I’m getting paid tomorrow. So I have money to start saving, cause bills got taken out already. I want to get a new computer! First off, I want to switch to ATI because I’ve been hearing a lot of bad things about NVIDIA lately. Plus, I’d rather have a card from the manufacture them selves’, not some Joe-blow in his workshop working with NVIDIA stuff. Let’s see, I have a 40GB HD that I can reuse for now. Also, my floppy and CDROM are good. Eventually, I will replace the CDROM and HD, but not now (too expensive). So I will need a new motherboard, CPU, graphics & sound and probably new memory, unless I can keep the sticks I got. Let’s start with the motherboard first, I need it to support PCI Express 2x16 for the Radeon X1900 I wanna get. Plus I need it to support a P4 because I want to switch to intel also (No more AMD! :D). I know I have older DDR, but I’m not exactly sure what type, I think it’s like DDR2 something, I’d have to check. I would like the motherboard to support the new ATA for HDs too. I’ve heard its faster then old IDE. I’m not much into intergraded things at all. My current mother board has intergraded. I Google and Google but I can’t come up with any matches. What is a good motherboard to get? Like, quality brand with good warranties and what not.
