Motherboard help

[splootbloot]

Currently have an ancient GeForce 7300 gt with 512mb of memory. I recently got it from my uncle after we were cleaning out his closet. It has all the drivers, cables, and package still included. Only one problem... no motherboard. There are so many old motherboards out there that I could choose, but I haven't a clue about which one is good and which one is E-waste. I need some help!

 

The kind I'm looking for needs PCIe ports (obviously), 4 DIMM slots, and I would prefer an AMD chipset. This is gonna be for a 2005-2008 build, so if the board could be in that timeframe, that would be amazing.

 

Please leave suggestions! I'm desperate!!!

 

Budget (including currency): $200

Country: United States

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: OS testing and light 2008 gaming

Other details : Already have a graphics card and a little bit of ram (ddr2)

 

[mariushm]

Spend around $200 on a refurbished PC, if you're in US. 

examples from cheap to a bit over 200$  

 

$150 : https://www.newegg.com/p/1VK-001E-2NDV7

HP Compaq Pro 6300 Tower Computer Intel Core i5 3rd Gen 3470 @ 3.20 Ghz 8GB Memory 500GB HDD DVD Windows 10 Professional Free WiFi Adapter

you also get a keyboard and mouse I think (probably cheap office crap, but better than nothing) 

cons : not much room to upgrade cpu (max i5 3770 i think) and proprietary psu  but the video card would work 

 

about 4500 cpu benchmark points.. bit weak but good for 2008 build add a SSD and you're good.

 

 $225 : https://www.newegg.com/dell-optiplex-7020-business-desktops-workstations/p/1VK-0001-52CC6

 

Dell OptiPlex 7020, Minitower, Intel Core i5-4690 @ 3.50 GHz, 16GB DDR3, NEW 128GB SSD, DVD-RW, Microsoft Windows 10 Home 64-bit

Newer cpu, around 5500 points ... more ram, ssd, windows 10 license

 

 

225$ : https://www.newegg.com/p/1VK-0001-1GKX7

Dell Precision T3610 Workstation E5-1650 v2 3.5GHz 6-Cores 16GB DDR3 NEW 128GB SSD Quadro K2000

 

No OS.

more power hungry, but better cpu, around 9300 points, kinda similar to a Ryzen 5 1400 or something equivalent from intel these days (a 4 core cpu)

psu seems proprietary but who cares, it's a 685w model so plenty.. 

 

200$ same system without SSD : https://www.newegg.com/p/1VK-0001-1GPJ2

 

Probably lots of systems between $150 and $225  but really don't have the time to browse and pick ... look on Newegg and avoid the SFF ones because those only accept low profile video cards..

[splootbloot]

Thanks man! I'll start searching around for some! Never even thought about the optiplex line of computers... Thank you!