@cryptid
u r doing a useless upgrade if u r planning to buy an 875 board based machine. 875 boards were made for socket 478 processors which are history now. If you want your machine to be future proof for sometime now go for the new LGA-775 Processors from intel (as u want to go for an intel platform). i suggest the following for u ,
Intel® Pentium® 4 processor 630 supporting Hyper-Threading Technology
( 2MB L2 Cache , 3 GHz , 800 Mhz FSB , 90nm) (This procc supports 64 bit computing and also Execute Disable Bit )
For the motherboard go for ASUS P5GD1 (if u want to buy a separate grafix card) or ASUS P5GD1-VM (if you want integrated grafix) ... keep in mind that the integrated grafix is only decent enough to allow u to play latest games at low settings.
Couple the above procc and mobo with 256*2 DDR 400 RAM modules from kingston/corsair/transcend and run them in dual channel. now ur rig will be good enough and somewhat future proof.
Alternatively u can go for an AMD rig and buy the following,
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (939 pin)
MSI RS480M2 motherboard (comes with integrated ATI graphics)
256*2 DDR 400 RAM (kingston/corsair)
the above option will also be a good consideration as the mobo has integrated grafix (128mb shareable) which offers perfomance alomost equal to that of a Nvidia Geforce 5200. the mobo also has a pci-express slot so u can buy a separate card if u want to in the future for even enhanced gameplay.
If you provide me with your budget for the upgrade , ill try giving u the best advice.
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