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That's your best bet. You should only need a motherboard, CPU, RAM and most likely a newer power supply to get you started. Hard drives are bone cheap these days too, 1TB can be had for $100.I appreciate the advice guys. I think i'll actually wait until i have the money for a new MB and CPU before i try this. Again thanks for the imput. Brian
Yeah about the only option is a new system. Even if that board will allow upping the FSB it can screw up the whole system easily. That chipset doesn't lock the pci/agp frequencies when upping the fsb and can corrupt your hard drive and mess with any add on cards in the pc.If you want to muck about in the bios settings you can always use the "reload default" option if you destablize the system...as long as you don't fry something...but it depends on your Mobo whether it changes the clock/bus speed...some do some don't..writing everything down or taking a screen shot of the current settings is an excellent idea...some you can print off right from the bios by using the Print Screen key...
I like the last option you chose though...buy a better system...maybe keep the old one around to play with since you won't need to worry about leaving yourself without computer...