New old stock motherboard.. Worth using?

[Fumesucker]

I have an old but still new in the package MSI K8N Neo4/SLI motherboard that I'm considering building into a system, I would have to buy a socket 939 processor, a PCI-E x16 graphics card and some memory for it.. Already have hard drive, case, power supply and so forth..

I only have $10 in the mobo and I'm wondering if it's worth buying the rest of the parts on Ebay, I have about $70 to spend on it and I think I could get into an Athlon 64 x2 processor and a Radeon HD 5450 1GB card and a couple of gigabytes of RAM for close to that..

[hobbit709]

1. The RAM is probably the most expensive part.

DDR isn't cheap anymore. Most of the prices I've seen are close to $40 for 2 1Gb sticks. Socket 939 cpu's are going for about $20-30.

[HopeHoops]

2. You would be better off trying to sell IT on eBay - I bet you can score far more than $10.

[Fumesucker]

4. Upon reflection and consideration, both sober and not, I think you have the best idea..

It'll be going on Ebay this weekend..

Thanks for the replies all.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

3. Which OS do you plan to run? n/t

[timesup]

5. finding parts

If interested in piecing together a fantasy system

pcpartspicker.com is excellent.

Then reduce until you hit your budget. 8)

[Fumesucker]

6. Ouch, even the pauper's special is more than I want to spend..

Cool site though, that one got a permanent bookmark.

My computers are starting to look more and more like Junkyard War refugees.