Motherboard.

[Aηdy]

Ok, im buying a new mobo,im looking at this (clicky) (http://www.savastore.com/productinfo/product.aspx?product_id=10286625&catalog_name=Savastore&page=productspecification&pid=207/url), i just want a second opinion before i buy it.

[0=]

Is that euros or pounds? Looks fairly good, spend a good 70 euros, 50 pounds, you could get a better one, I don't know what your budget is though.

[Elscire]

it looks good but i also suggest a better proccessor, gigabyte is a good brand, better than my asus

[0=]

I'm waitin till next year to upgrade, gonna get one of those core 2 extremes.

[Elscire]

I'm waitin till next year to upgrade, gonna get one of those core 2 extremes.

whoa those are even more expensive than the ordinary dual-cores.

[0=]

They use 40% of the power, and process more efficiently, they cost over 1k right now, actually there's only one core 2 extreme. The less expensive version is core 2 duo, they should drop in price quite a bit by the time next Christmas comes around, almost by half, then even cheaper cuz of the Christmas sale, of coruse iI need to get a high end mobo for that, I'll have to replace my ram with ddr2, and my video card with a good 512mb pci express. Anyone wanna buy some parts off me? lol

[Aηdy]

Is that euros or pounds? Looks fairly good, spend a good 70 euros, 50 pounds, you could get a better one, I don't know what your budget is though.

Wow.. i was wrting a reply to this a feww hours ago on my laptop and got a BSOD!! then nothing... i found out it was the ram so i took that out and its ok again now (running on built-in memory)

anyway.. my budget is £50 max inc. vat. and i want 3 ram slots, AGP grapics usb 2.0 SATA sand socked 754 AMD.

i already have an AMD Sempron 2800+ so im limited to that socket.

thanks guys, ill keep looking :)


my dad thinks my laptop is still broken so i cam just put the crapped ram back in and hope he gets me a new one :) cos this is 4 years old now :) lol

[Elscire]

sempron? thats the worst proccessor of AMD, though i 'm using it myself too because i'm broke, get an intel :D
50 pounds, not much to get a fairly decent motherboard.

[Aηdy]

i would never EVER get an intel, my sempron is pleanty quick enough for the internet lol, my computer is more about looks, plus i have 1.25GB ram... so yeah lol

[Elscire]

too much rams don't help much if your prcessor isn't able to send and intake enough data. i perfer a computer with at least 3.0 gigahertz i'm tired of the 2.0's
anyways why not buy from the u.s.? pounds is worth more here. tigerdirect has some good prices though i don't trust their rebates.

[0=]

I always get stuff from tiger, always get the rebate, got this dvd drive for 10 bucks, and huge deals on everything I bought basically.

[Elscire]

stuff from america must be cheaper to people in europe, i'm jealous that their currency is worth more.

[Aηdy]

How does that work? having a credit card in £ and buying in $? plus wouldnt the shipping be alot more?

[Elscire]

you'll be paying overseas shipping like the same way i get my gundams from japan, it shouldn't be much if its just the motherboard, but if its a computer yea i say about $30-$40 depending. just a mother board maybe around $20

[Underage_Thinker]

what exsactly do you plan on doing with your motherboard. Gaming, movie editing, or just surfin the web. That would dictate what mobo you get along with one that fits your processor's socket type.

[Aηdy]

On that computer, mainly internet, messaging, occasional gaming such as games like The Sims 2 or flight simulator, i will put vista on it when i get a copy, the 754 boards support 64-Bit Processors.

I looked on newegg and they are really cheap, but they dont ship to the UK, and when i went to tigerdirect and i selected UK, it redirected me to their sister site calles Misco, and they are more expensive, so does anyone else know good american sites that shup to the uk?

[Elscire]

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=1178
thats a list i came up, when does windows vista come out? i got a really cute wallpaper for it!

[0=]

January.

[Skhorpion]

Gigabyte is a good manufacturer. My heatsink and i-RAM are made by them. Can't comment on their motherboards though. Seems like your staying toward the lower end of things. If thats the max your budget permits I suggest saving up some more and get an ASUS board that has PCI-E, 4 RAM slots, and a socket 939.

[Elscire]

asus....the reason my old comp died was because something burned out in the graphics pci slot. now its just sitting junk in my closet.

[Skhorpion]

My last three motherboards have all been ASUS and i work my computer pretty darn hard when i get a new part :P . If i do a major change like motherboard i put it under a completely full load for a good three days to make sure everything is perfect and even after that my ASUS boards have held up. Also, my fileserver is running on a really old ASUS board.

[Aηdy]

Gigabyte is a good manufacturer. My heatsink and i-RAM are made by them. Can't comment on their motherboards though. Seems like your staying toward the lower end of things. If thats the max your budget permits I suggest saving up some more and get an ASUS board that has PCI-E, 4 RAM slots, and a socket 939.


I would like that, infact i would love that, but i only use it for surfing the web 99% of the time, the RAM, graphics card, processor, everything is all less than a year old.

So i just want a cheap-ish board with socket 754, 3 ram slots, agp graphics, SATA and thats about it.

Ive got about 3 boards in my cupboard, all broken lol, one good one, its an MSI one, brilliand board, wont power on now :(

I do have £100 so i could push the buget to £65 perhaps (got to save some to go to the movies with a special someone ;) )

But for now i shall keep looking at what i can get, thanks for all the input guys :)

[0=]

3 slots? They come with 2 or 4 generally.

[Aηdy]

There are a few of the cheaper ones that have 3 slots, my current one has 3.

[Aηdy]

Just brought this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Asus-K8V-SE-Deluxe-Skt-754-VIA-K8T800-Gigabit-SATA-RAID_W0QQitemZ180030859534QQihZ008QQcategoryZ99244QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphoto hosting

Its almost the same as what i have at the moment, just the deluxe version :P

[0=]

Pretty nice basic board, should do whatever you need it to do.

[Aηdy]

Yup its pretty much exactly what i wanted, at a pretty good price, too :D
I cant wait for it to arrive now :D
Ive taken all my computer apart now and cleaned out the case, so its all ready to go in :D

[0=]

Sounds like fun, I'll get the anti-static wristband! :D

[Aηdy]

Ohh that reminds me. thanks :P

Edit: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Anti-Static-ESD-Wrist-Strap-Band-Protection_W0QQitemZ140031477714QQihZ004QQcategoryZ16145QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Ebay is brilliant XD

[0=]

If you need a fan get this one, although it's rather loud, just designed to instantly cool basically, so you'll need a fan controller.

http://shop4.outpost.com/product/3403933?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=674615&Tab=0&NoMapp=0

They also have a 120mm version.

[Aηdy]

Ive already got 5 80mm case fans + a controller. thanks anyway ;)

[Elscire]

and its done!
i created my own wallpaper for windows VISTA!
http://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e223/Charatman/akibakko-11520848022900.jpg

[Skhorpion]

Sounds like fun, I'll get the anti-static wristband! :D

You know you dont need those right? Just plug in the psu but keep the switch on it off and make sure your touching a piece of unpainted metal on the case for most of the time.

[0=]

Yes, which is rather annoying when you're installing a processor, ram, any pci or agp card, plugging everything into the motherboard, and putting the jumpers on, that's what I did when I built this, and lemme tell you, it's no picnic.

[Skhorpion]

You dont have to touch it the whole time.... just periodicly touch it to neutralize yourself.

[0=]

That only works 100% of the time if you're naked, your clothes rubbing produces a lot of static, and you can pick it up from people and objects around you.

[Aηdy]

I think it will be better to have it on, i have broken a couple of things because of static so i dont want to break anything else lol :P

[Aηdy]

Yesss! It came today :D but i cant get it til tomoro bacause they tried to deliver it but nobody was home. i cant wait :D

was excellent delivery tho, i got three things off ebay on wednesday night, and they all arrived today :)