Getting a new Motherboard, help!

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Limp Gawd
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Hey guys, I have a HP Presario SR5152nx to be exact. It has 2gb ram, X2 4000+, 250gb harddrive, and I bought separately a 9600GT and 600W OCZ PSU.

I'm eyeing this motherboard (i live in canada): http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=23404&vpn=M2A-VM&manufacture=ASUS

Clearly im on a budget. I want to know if i can move the ram, processor (x2 4000) and harddrive and everything into this motherboard, and finally be able to overclock my processor as I heard you cannot when using a HP motherboard. Tell me if this is possible please, as my processor holds me back in a lot of games, I would like to overclock it, and get a new one in the future.
 
The 690G is a good chipset however if you can go for a 780 or 790 chipset that would be even better as it has some fixes to small problems found in the 690G southbridge.

This is the sort of board I would reccomend, had no problems with mine. http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=31158&vpn=GA-MA78GPM-DS2H&manufacture=Gigabyte

Not sure how good BioStar is but http://www.ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=33216&vpn=A780G M2+ SE&manufacture=BIOSTAR is about the same price as the one you listed.

Of course, this all assumes you have an AM2 based X2 4000 and your 2GB of ram is DDR2
 
That is an AM2 board if google isn't lying to me. I agree with the 780 board. You'll get more bang for the buck with that over the 690.

I wouldn't have a problem getting the Biostar. Looks like a decent board for the price and should swap all your parts easily. Might have to do a repair install of you OS since you're moving to a new chipset though.
 
Yes my ram is DDR2, and i'm pretty sure my socket is AM2....

So once i xfer everything into this mobo, i should be ok to overclock?

Will it be apretty decent step up?
 
It's not all that much different...just with some OCing abilities. Not sure if that's really worth the cash or not.
 
Yeah I didn't really want to buy a mobo with AMD, don't really like their processors comparatively to Intel. Any recommendations for processor PLUS mobo (either a bundle or separate) for 150-250$? I live in Canada. No newegg :).
 
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