Advice needed Please

[Chris Beckett]

Thinking about upgrading by semi-building my own PC.
This site details the bundle I intend to purchase.
https://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?BB-X2MDB
and this site details the Mobo that comes with it.
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?asu-m2n4s&P=1

Need to know if my present Graphics Card (Nvidia GeForce 6600) ; Hard
Drive; DVD Player and CD Rom are compatible with this new bundle and if not
which hardware would you recommend please.
Thankyou.
Chris Beckett

Current System.........
Mainboard : Abit AN8 Series(NF-CK804)
Chipset : nVidia nForce4
Processor : AMD Athlon 64 3500+ @ 2200 MHz
Physical Memory : 1024 MB (4 x 256 DDR-SDRAM )
Video Card : Nvidia Corp GeForce 6600
Hard Disk : SAMSUNG (80 GB)
DVD-Rom Drive : SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616T
CD-Rom Drive : SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-240B
Monitor Type : Maxdata Computer B101927 - 19 inchs
Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.01.2600 Service Pack
2
DirectX : Version 9.0c

 

[Paul]

Thinking about upgrading by semi-building my own PC.
This site details the bundle I intend to purchase.
https://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?BB-X2MDB
and this site details the Mobo that comes with it.
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specpage.html?asu-m2n4s&P=1

Need to know if my present Graphics Card (Nvidia GeForce 6600) ; Hard
Drive; DVD Player and CD Rom are compatible with this new bundle and if not
which hardware would you recommend please.
Thankyou.
Chris Beckett

Current System.........
Mainboard : Abit AN8 Series(NF-CK804)
Chipset : nVidia nForce4
Processor : AMD Athlon 64 3500+ @ 2200 MHz
Physical Memory : 1024 MB (4 x 256 DDR-SDRAM )
Video Card : Nvidia Corp GeForce 6600
Hard Disk : SAMSUNG (80 GB)
DVD-Rom Drive : SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616T
CD-Rom Drive : SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-240B
Monitor Type : Maxdata Computer B101927 - 19 inchs
Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional 5.01.2600 Service Pack
2
DirectX : Version 9.0c

How exactly did you determine an Asus M2N4-SLI ships in that computer ?
The picture in the advertisement, does not show an M2N4-SLI. The picture
is quite generic in nature. Why does the advertising copy for the barebones
not tell you which brand of motherboard is included ? It almost looks
a bit on the deceptive side.

Before buying any motherboard, I recommend downloading the manual. You can
get the manual for an Asus motherboard here:

http://support.asus.com.tw/download/download.aspx

And comments on the motherboard can be found here:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16813131068
http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=1&model=M2N4-SLI&SLanguage=en-us

As long as the motherboard has two IDE connectors, you could connect
up to four drives with that. You have three drives, so I suppose that
will be OK.

If your old computer had a PCI Express x16 video card connector for
the video card, and this new computer does as well, then the
video card should fit. I see a PCI Express x16 in this picture
of your old system.

http://www.ocworkbench.com/2005/abit/an8/g1.htm

The memory in your old computer is DDR and in the new computer is
DDR2. Are you buying new memory ?

Paul