Okay, so my secondary desktop (the gf's now) really needs to move up from old architecture, but I don't want to spend a ton on it. Currently I can't move anything from the new desktop to the old desktop because of architecture issues... Its the last of the Pentium 4 kind with the highest possible AGP graphics card left in it. I would really like to upgrade it to a modern socket with a PCI-E slot.
Here's where the cheap part comes in. I want to get the cheapest possible PCI-E graphics card I can, like 30-50 dollars, and I want to get a mobo\cpu combo as cheap as possible. My only stipulation is that down the line I can put a better Graphics card\CPU in it down the line. So really, I just need a mobo with a modern socket and a PCI-E slot that'll do the job. The CPU obviously doesn't need to be even remotely great because anything at this point is faster\more efficient than a 3.0 ghz P4.
Any suggestions? Or do any of you have some really old PCI-E mobos laying around I could get cheap? I would really like the entire upgrade to cost less than 200 bucks. Honestly it wouldn't even really have to be an upgrade, just give me the expandability of a modern CPU socket and a friggen PCI-E slot. Having an AGP slot in a secondary PC is really limiting my ability to give it some "hand-me-down" loving.
