Motherboard selection question

I have a small desktop, I think its an earlier version of the dell studio series. I want to upgrade my video card but it has no slot. I want to transfer my cpu and memory to a new motherboard/case so i can upgrade the graphics. I have an Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 cpu 2.80 ghz. My question is, how do i know if a specific motherboard will work with my cpu? If you want to recommend a specific MB that would be cool, I use ddr2 memory. Thanks all.

New socket 478 motherboards are harder to find these days. But here's one:
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...0828&CatId=182

You might be better off looking on local buy/sell sites or flea markets for a good used one. You need a motherboard that has a socket 478 and will take at least a Pentium4 2.8Ghz and has slots for DDR2 RAM.

If you can afford a couple of hundred dollars, go for a motherboard/cpu bundle instead - seems a pity to upgrade something that's at the end of its life.

Yeah the Pentium 4 is on the way out, I mean you can get a far better processor for $60 these days. AMD 64x2 AM2 running TWO cores at 2.6GHz is far beter than what you have now.... and that's somewhat low for the current market technology too.

Sites such as tigerdirect.com or newegg.com will list under the motherboard specifications what type of Processors it supports.