'Nother Q about my comp

[CompNEWB1]

Ok, yu al kno that i posted wondering if my comp specs were good.... they weren't, so I was wonderin instead of buying a new comp couldn't I just buy a new motherboard or something??... cuz I got the comp in today and thats all the dam thing has in it a mother board and 3 fans.. so i was just wonderin if I could, and if so which one should i buy?... oh yea whats it mean to OC??
thanks

 

[quartz01]

please repost your specs as well as your motherboard's name. you might just be able to pop in a p4 CPU and disable the onboard graphics w/ a nice AGP card (if you have an AGP slot). anyways, OC means to overclock something. its like making something run faster then it is made to run. i.e. you have an 2.4ghz p4 and want to make it go faster you can go into the bios and change some settings to make it run at 3.0ghz. you can do this with Video cards, CPUs, ram, ect. anyways, when you overclock the thing that you overclocked gets hotter then it should so you need to have really good cooling to keep things stable and safe.

 

[blah blah]

get a diagonotics program that tells you ur comps specs cuz u sound like a noob, DO NOT OPEN UR CASE IF U DONT NOE WHAT UR DOING

 

[blah blah]

try EVEREST 1.0 home edition

 

[blah blah]

OHHHHHH u dont have anything in ur motherboard.....well then get intruction on how to ground and not screw up ur mobo and case....

 

[CompNEWB1]

Motherboard Specs- MSI P4MAM-V
Special Features
• Support Intel P4 Celeron/Northwood/Prescott/Prescott Celeron CPU
• Hyper-Threading Technology
• Supports 2 DDR 200/266
• 400/533 MHz FSB, AGP 4X
• Integrated Graphics S3 Graphics ProSavage8 shared up to 32MB
• 6 SW Channel Audio
• Onboard Ehternet 10/100 LAN
• Live BIOS/ Driver Update
• Fuzzy Logics 4, PC Alert 4

Product Specification
CPU
• Socket 478 for Intel® P4 Celeron/Northwood/Prescott/Prescott Celeron CPU
• Supports up to 3.06GHz with FSB 400/533MHz
• Supports Hyper-Threading Technology


Chipset
• VIA ProSavageDDR P4M266A Chipset
- Supports 400/533MHz FSB
- S3 Graphics ProSavage8 Integrated Graphics Core
- Supports DDR 200/266 SDRAM.
- Ultra fast 266MB/sec V-Link between Northbridge and Southbridge
- High performance 2D/3D and Video Accelerator

• VIA® VT8235 Chipset
- Integrated Direct Sound AC'97 Audio.
- Dual Channel Ultra DMA 33/66/100/133 master mode EIDE controller
- ACPI & PC2001 compliant enhanced power management
- Integrated USB 2.0 controller.
- Integrated LAN MAC


Main Memory
• Supports Four memory banks using two 184-pin unbuffered DDR200/266 DIMM.

• Supports up to 2GB memory size.
• Supports 2.5v DDR SDRAM.

Slots
• One AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) 2X/4X slot.
• Three PCI 2.2 32-bit PCI bus slots (support 3.3V/5V PCI bus interface).
• One CNR (Communication Network Riser) slot.


BIOS
• The mainboard BIOS provides "Plug & Play" BIOS which detects the peripheral devices and expansion cards of the board automatically.
• The mainboard provides a Desktop Management Interface (DMI) function which records your mainboard specifications.


On-Board IDE
• An IDE Controller on the VT8235 chipset provides IDE HDD/ CD-ROM with PIO, Bus Master and Ultra DMA133/100/66 operation modes.
• Can connect up to four IDE devices.


Video
S3 Graphics ProSavage8 Integrated Graphics core upto 32MB.

Audio
AC'97 link controller integrated in VIA® VT8235
VIA VT1616 6-channel S/W audio codec.
- Compliance with AC97 v2.2 Spec.
- Meet PC2001 audio performance requirement.


LAN
VIA VT6103 PCI loval bus single-chip Fast Ethernet Controller.
- with external 10/100 Base-T LAN transformer.
- Integrated Fast Ethernet MAC and PHY in one chip
- Supports 10Mb/s and 100Mb/s auto-negotation operation.
- Compliance with PCI v.2.2 and PC99 standard.
- Supports ACPI power management.


On-Board Peripherals
- 1 floppy port supports 2 FDDs with 360K, 720K, 1.2M, 1.44M and 2.88Mbytes.
- 1 serial ports (COM A)
- 1 parallel port supports SPP/EPP/ECP mode.
- 6 USB ports (2.0/1.1) (Rear x 4/ Front x 2).
- 1 RJ-45 LAN jack
- 1 Line-In/Line-Out/Mic-In port
- 1 VGA port.