New build help

Rev

Looking for some advice really. The motherboard on my desktop has just blown. And since it's socket 478 I've decide to just upgrade instead of replacing the board. But I'm hoping to be able to canabalise as much from this PC as I can, mainly the hard drives (2xIDE 1xSATA), CD/DVD drives and the PSU, I'm really hoping that hasn't blown too, since it's a hiper modular one I've only had about 10 months.

So I'm basically just hoping someone can recommend me an intel (no real reason for that, just personal preference) motherboard that will have the room for the IDE drives as well as SATA. And it's probably a long shot, but one that has an AGP slot as well as PCI-E as the one that just blew did (Asus P4V800D-X) so I can use the same graphics card.

Thanks for any advice.

Zagu

Have a look at the ASRock VSTA. There are a couple of other variations, so you might have to do some homework before finding the right one for you.

banger9365

you will find it hard to get a board that takes AGP&PCI-E and DDR ram put new gpu's that are PCI-E are cheap and so is DDR2 ram about £30 for a Gig and £30 to £70 for a nvidia 8*** card or ATI card
cpu -Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 2000MHz x2 about £80

Rev

Thanks for the replies.

I was planning on buying DDR2 Ram but I'd like to keep my GPU if possible, I know it's a long shot but it's worth looking. I don't game so I don't really want to be paying for a new GPU if I can help it, since the one I have does all I need it to do and my budget is tight as it is.

Rev

Just been looking on dells site and there seems to be some good deals to be had, and building a ready system would save me a lot of hassle, but there's no info on the motherboards so does anyone know if I'd be able to add the drives if I got a dell? Thanks.

Rev

Also, would anyone recommend checking out the local PC fairs? Or is it a bad idea to get a tower from there?