Yeah thats what Im trying to find out wether or not it will need a firmware upgrade on the BIOS....and seeing that you would then need another processor eg. a celeron to do it, I dont want to go out and buy another processor just to do a firware upgrade.
I think Il have a firewire port as I would like to hook up a Camera to it and do a bit of video editing.
Its not going to be used for gaming as Ive never really been a PC gamer.
Im more a console person for games.
UPDATE: Having been advised to check out the newer ranges of motherboard chip sets, eg. 775, I have been looking at this:
CPU: Pentium 4 LGA775 3.2ghz
With this motherboard:
775 socket Motherboard
This combination takes advantage of all the new features, eg. PCI Express.
I hope you dont mind my long topic, but all this help is appreciated and I just have a couple more questions:
1) What do you think of this other solution I've posted here compared to my first choice motherboard and CPU.
2) Can you use normal PCI cards in PCI express slots ?
3) Can an AGP graphics card go into PCI express ports seeing that there are no longer any AGP slots.
4) It takes DDR2 memory. Ive never heard of it. Any good ?
Thanks a million for the help you can give me. I really appreciate it.
Tim.