I'm being taunted by the very thing I don't have and that's a decent videocard and I'm being held back by my motherboard that's housed within this computer I've had and I'm wondering if a certain thing I can do to it can be done and that's to upgrade the thing from the inside out.
I'm currently using an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro but I have an ATI x700 Pro and a GeForce 6800 but my motherboard cannot support either of them which is very, very sad since that very thing is holding me back, and all that it's being held back by is the motherboard itself. I thought about something that I could possibly do and that's just replace the motherboard in the computer itself and MAYBE that could help the situation but I also considered the flaws that could happen to it, such as:
Since this is a stock computer made by HP themselves, would me tinkering with the insides itself hurt the build altogether?
Also, is it even possible? I don't even know what kind of socket it uses but I've come to know that it isn't a 939 Socket. It still uses the Athlon XP series CPU but I know I've seen other people run XP series CPU motherboards and still be able to use 6800's, even some other nearly high end, decent mark videocards that still use AGP.
I'd get another computer but I'm dreadly under budget and need to figure out how to compensate since I have good videocards available, but I JUST CAN'T USE THEM BECAUSE OF AN INCOMPATIBLE MOTHERBOARD!
So I'm asking you for help fellow Battlefield 2 brethren, can anyone help me answer the question:
Can replacing a motherboard in a premade factory computer like this Hewlett-Packard a420n be done for the sole purpose to run a much better videocard, and safely?
I'm currently using an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro but I have an ATI x700 Pro and a GeForce 6800 but my motherboard cannot support either of them which is very, very sad since that very thing is holding me back, and all that it's being held back by is the motherboard itself. I thought about something that I could possibly do and that's just replace the motherboard in the computer itself and MAYBE that could help the situation but I also considered the flaws that could happen to it, such as:
Since this is a stock computer made by HP themselves, would me tinkering with the insides itself hurt the build altogether?
Also, is it even possible? I don't even know what kind of socket it uses but I've come to know that it isn't a 939 Socket. It still uses the Athlon XP series CPU but I know I've seen other people run XP series CPU motherboards and still be able to use 6800's, even some other nearly high end, decent mark videocards that still use AGP.
I'd get another computer but I'm dreadly under budget and need to figure out how to compensate since I have good videocards available, but I JUST CAN'T USE THEM BECAUSE OF AN INCOMPATIBLE MOTHERBOARD!
So I'm asking you for help fellow Battlefield 2 brethren, can anyone help me answer the question:
Can replacing a motherboard in a premade factory computer like this Hewlett-Packard a420n be done for the sole purpose to run a much better videocard, and safely?