cmoputer hardware

[Electric Sunday]

I just brought up the idea of getting a larger hard drive for our existing home PC. This thing is laughably archaic (the running joke with a friend is that it was used to map out stonehenge before building commenced ), although it was at least halfway decent in 1998.

anyways to get to the point. It's fairly pointless putting '98 onto a new HD. Personally I wanna put XP on there. XP wopn't run on a 200 MHz processer. Therefore need new motherboard. (Although I"m pretty sure this one is on its last legs anyway)
Father then complains that I've only been home 5 minutes and am already trying to con him out of £1500 . Son goes to www.Kelkoo.co.uk and discovers that you can get a new motherboard for £5.35 (including postage ).

Obviously I wouldn't trust a motherboard than cost a fiver. But at the same time I'm clueless as to what I should be looking for in a decent motherboard.

Can anybody tell me? budget is somewhere around the £30 mark (given that it's probably gonna end up being my money), and I've seen loads on kelkoo for that sort of price, but I wouldn't know if any of them are any good.

Any ideas?
thanks

[Alex]

Get one that is compatible with a good set of RAM and other cards. I think that's the most important thing. Depends what you'll settle for.

-alex

[ben]

That's probably £5 for the board and nowt else:

you'll need a cpu, ram and other gubbins too
[which is where chipsets and such come in ]