[andrewas]

What the repair guy told you is true enough as far as it goes. M/bs that slow are hard to find first hand, but it just might be worth looking through some stores that might have an old one around.

Personaly I woudnt touch a P4, cost too much and the AthlonXP is a better chip anyway.

The RAM you have might run in a P4 system but youd need more of it and it would become a major slowdown, so its better to upgrade it to DDR ram. Do *not* touch RDRAM, its crap.

For a P4 you need an enhanced ATX PSU which I cant remember the exact name of, but it cant be run off a standard ATX PSU. ALso the P4s heatsink requires extra support in the case, so a new case is in order. Its unlikly youll find a P4 PSU to fit in your old case anyway.

My advice - and this is based on whats available in scotland, not singapore - is to get a Athon XP 2000 with 512 MB RAM and perhaps a new graphics card. If your existing one is pre-Geforce 2 is say definatly upgrade, past that its not really neccesary. HDD - 12 GB is too small for serious CRPG play, I myself regularly have to switch around games depending on who want to play. Id keep it and add a second larger drive as secondary master. The rest of your system should be okay.