$300 mb upgrade?

[Drifter]

I think it's time to upgrade my motherboard and cpu and $300 is what i have set my limit at.

I'm going to need MB, CPU and Memory.

Anyone care to make a recemendation on what and where to buy?

I was thinking on a ECS 848p-a V2, P4 3.0

Good, not so good, wouldnt touch that peice of junk???

[Ivan]

ECS => junk, get ASUS or MSI instead

ASUS P4P800 for example, takes the same processor but with RAID and a lot of other goodies.

MSI site is slow/down so i can't get the specs from there

[congo]

Gigabyte 8KNS mainboard        = $75

AMD Athlon 64bit 3000 CPU      = $146

1 gb of Kingston PC3200 RAM   = $105

Total = $326     for a 64 bit system with a gb of ram.

Food for thought. Got the prices from pricewatch.com