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Message: [QUOTE="Zenith, post: 1125867, member: 21314"] ASUS make excellent motherboards, I'd definitely recommend one. You'd be better off getting a new motherboard, CPU and RAM. There have been a number of faster speed RAM releases since your 1700 came out, you may as well have this added speed benefit and not make the RAM a bottle neck in the system. Also selling your MB, CPU and RAM on E-Bay will be much easier as a combo. It's hard to know with the harddrive. If you've got five years out of it you've done quite well, these days they don't tend to last like the used to. Also, many of the PCs that come into our place for repair because they're slow end up having harddrives that are on their way out. So if I were you I'd get a new one. If you don't need much space consider getting something like a 10000RPM 72Gb SATA2 drive which will be a good bit faster then the usual 7200RPM 200/300Gb drives out there. [/QUOTE]