Can i swap old motherboard for one with a PCIE

**navnut** · #1 18th Jul 2008, 11:46

........ and keep my current hardware cpu etc.
I have a a7n8x2, Anthlon XP 3000, 2GB RAM, IDE DRIVES.

**thingie2** · #2 18th Jul 2008, 14:34

I don't think so. From the looks of it that proessor is a socket 754 prossesor and I don't find anywhere that sell that type of motherboard anymore so my guess would be that if it's too old for people to have stoped selling it, it would be too old to have PCI-E on it.

**serverguy** · #3 18th Jul 2008, 15:07

Nope, I don't think you're going to have much luck finding one. Maybe scavenge around in some old PCs.

Time to upgrade to Intel

**Desertfish** · #4 20th Jul 2008, 15:39

Most new motherboards nowadays come with both SATA and IDE ports, so you should be safe as far as your IDE drives is concerned...

As for your CPU and RAM; I'm affraid it's bad news. As thingie2 pointed out.. The Athlon XP architecture is pretty much dead so you won't find another mobo that will support that CPU.

At the time of the Athlon XP, DDR RAM (184 pin) was the standard to go for. Nowadays, even though you can still get the RAM, most motherboards support DDR2 RAM (240 pin)...

Cheers:
Chris

**navnut** · #5 21st Jul 2008, 01:42

So there were absolutly no old motherboards around the time of the athlon that had both PCIE and took the Athlon XP??????

**serverguy** · #6 21st Jul 2008, 06:30

No, I think there were, but they aren't sold any more.

You would have to scavenge around eBay or similar to find one.

**Desertfish** · #7 21st Jul 2008, 11:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by serverguy

No, I think there were, but they aren't sold any more.

You would have to scavenge around eBay or similar to find one.

Not sure if PCI-E was around at that time... When I bought my Athlon XP 2000+, AGPx8 had just hit the market. I could be wrong but as far as I remember PCI-E hit the market at around the same time that AMD Athlon and Duron processors were on their way out...

**serverguy** · #8 21st Jul 2008, 15:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by Desertfish

Not sure if PCI-E was around at that time... When I bought my Athlon XP 2000+, AGPx8 had just hit the market. I could be wrong but as far as I remember PCI-E hit the market at around the same time that AMD Athlon and Duron processors were on their way out...

They definitely existed....

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/200..._ep-8npa_sli/1

And

http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/article/1746/