My son's PC has been acting up. Mouse freezes up randomly. I noticed a while back that his Northbridge fan has stopped, so probably associated with that.
I'll be upgrading my PC and giving this one to him.
I'll need a Motherboard, CPU (with cooling), and RAM. I have a case, ps, cd-rom.
Motherboard must have surround built in, I have an old SoundBlaster something gold.... but it'd be just as easy if there were SB support on board. Must also have LAN stuff on board. Video is ok without, by old 6600GT still works fine for what I play.
I'm trying to go frugal, not necessarily cheap, but not water-cooled top of the line either.
Suggestions? BTW, I've always used AMD and had decent luck.