mobo advice for spare parts pc

Hello all,

My youngest is using an old yard-sale Acer pc and needs something better. I have tons of spare parts from my own upgrades, and would like to use them on this project. My question is... what (cheap) mobo will work with what I have on hand?

Acer box (has v55la-2 mobo that I want to toss)

Celeron 433 370 pin fc-pga

128mb Micron 168 pin sdram

6.4g ide hard drive, cdrom.......

I'd love to find a board that has audio and video integrated, and that would fit in the old Acer box...

Any thoughts?

Thanks

 

Hi Snow,

If this is your motherboard then you are probably looking at a new case with an ATX power supply.

This Acer v55la-2 motherboard looks as though it has an AT power connector on it and from what I see in the diagram this motherboard has a proprietary layout (as many of the early Acer, Packard Bells etc did), so a standard AT board wouldn't fit in that case.

Secondly, any board you get for that celeron 433 is almost certainely an ATX board. So even if a new Socket 370 motherboard did fit, your old power supply won't work.

So you'll need a case with an ATX power supply to support your new ATX Socket 370 motherboard.

None of the places I usually shop at seem to stock Socket 370 boards any more except Computer Geeks.

Best of luck,

ICE

 

Thanks for the reply. After hours of surfing, I had pretty much figured out that I was going to have to shop for another box/board. An extra thanks for the link! As you said, there aren't many places to find the older boards and I hadn't heard of the one you listed. Hopefully this 'junk' pc will be up and running soon!

Thanks again