Looking to upgrade an older system. Would this be a good deal???

AMD motherboard combo

I've never heard of the board manufacture, and the CPU being overclocked that hard kinda scares me.....But the Sempron cores are VERY good. I've only had one for a couple weeks now and I love it.

I have never had a problem with overclocking, but I've only dealt with Intel. My current video editing station has a 1.6A P4 oc'd to 2.13 and has been running 24/7/365 for atleast 3 years now. It even runs grid.org, so the cpu is maxed all the time. Never missed a tick. another grid station runs a P3 460, oc'd to 650 or somewhere abouts with no problems. several others in the same boat.
Foxconn is a good manufacturer, but remember, different companies have different quality standards, so the contract manufacturer in this case is not the weak link. That being said, it'* awful hard these days to find a motherboard that doesn't work at least nominally. As long as you have some warranty to fall back on you should be fine. These days it'* cheaper to just get a machine like Nate did.

And then Haul it to MOS' on a saturday with beer and format the wrong drive and screw up the formatting another time on top of that LOL

I bought a POS HP from someone and the MB died so I figured that it would be cheaper than buying a new system.

if it'* an hp, most likely your power supply won't work with a standard motherboard. alot of the older hp'* were propietary connectors and motherboards. you may be able to ebay the actual motherboard or even the same chassis for less.

If it'* OC'ed, I'd be weary. It'* like buying a car that'* been modded. It'* risky cause you don't know how reliable it may be.

That'* kinda where I was going with my first post......Travis also has a good point about the HP powersupplies working with the board.

Already touched on, but wanted to add:

There'* no way to overclock a Sempron to a Pro. Apples and oranges. The speed may be comparable, but overclocking to that extent as shown above is dangerous. I would suspect some damage unless the person really knew how to keep that sucker cool.

I just built my parents a system with that board and an XP2600+ and i didn't have a single problem. It'* this one here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813186061
But if you're looking to upgrade, I'd go all out and do mobo, psu, ram, cpu, all at once.