Originally posted by Ten of Twelve
now I understand you completely.
Thunder, since you're doing the motherboard-CPU thing, maybe you could give me some details about their compatibility
the most direct relation of motherboard cpu said really simply is that AMD (Athlon and Duron to be more specific) need a Socket A, Pentium III and Celeron require Socket 370 , Pentium 4 goes with Socket 423 or 473. You can get an Socket A motherboard for about 1300 EEK these days (thats some 65-70 USD), with built in soundcard, although I'd reccomend going for an Audigy II, but that requires another 750 EEK.
SDRAM is still out there, and so are motherboards, so that should not be a conflict. I can see right here a perfectly good motherboard for 1200 EEK, with an nForce2 SDRAM chipset.