Yawl,
I'm trying to revive a daughter's old PC & have purchased a wireless router. The wireless - G pci adapter would not work in that box because of the minimum requirements (500 MHz processor).
I plan to reuse the monitor (& video card if necessary), mouse, keyboard cd rom drive, floppy drive, HDD, & possibly the SDRAM.
I've wasted a lot of time on NewEgg trying to match up the following combination:
motherboard
AMD processor
heat sink w/ fan
512 MB RAM (or I can reuse a 32 & 128 MB SDRAM = 128 MB)
cheap case: ATX mid tower
I'm trying to this this as reasonbly economical as possible.
I found this processor:
AMD Athlon 64 3800+ Venice 2.4 GHz socket 939 89w single core $ 29.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6819103571
combo w/ XIGMATEK HDT S963 92mm rifle CPU Cooler $ 44.98
Trying to match up ASUS notherboards, it looked like that socket type was only for servers. I got frustrated.
I think I can figure out the rest (case, fans, ram) if I can get the most economical cpu / motherboard combination.