ok peeps need some advice my curent pc is basicaly dead moast of the hardware is tired so i am biting the bulit and gona build new system
the hard drives in my current system are ok both under 6 months old so i will be reusing them same with the dvd drive and cd drive
rest of the system will be new sooo
idealy would like something good for gaming got about 350-400 for the bits all ready have windows xp home cannot affor dthe 64 bit version atmo maybe that will be something for the future
would like to advoid asus at all costs have had bad experiences with there mobos
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I wouldn't worry about adding the 64bit windows version ever. Some drivers are not available as are some software not able to run on windows 64bit. Best to stick with the version you have until they get all the bugs worked out of the newest windows (Vista).
I like Gigabyte boards. And have used them on all my computers for the last 10 years with no problems. Couple of good ones to start in link below:
I am using a MSI K8N Neo4 with a AMD 64 3200. Could not afford the AMD Athlon 64 3700+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) or video card of choice right now.
And why that chip, 1MB L2 cache!
Seen some reports on the newer AMD 64 X2 chips that I like.
By the way, My old setup is a MSI KT4AV-L WITH A 2500 Barton and the AMD64 3200 does the same projects in half the time! Love that IDEA!
I'll throw in a word for Abit boards. I've been using mine for six months now and it's a blast to tweak if you're into that kind of thing. Easy to flash the BIOS too, the rare times I'd need to. (I did it when I first got it to make sure it had the latest version, won't touch it again unless something major comes along.)
You must have had some bad experience with Asus. Most people rave about them.
ye had to faulty asus boards both replaced by asus direct 3rd board ws still faulty at that stage i gave up with them think i made a decision on what im after it depends on insurance payout on other pc as to what i get but im hopeing for enough to go towards this little lot
Hmmm, i'd consider a larger PSU, 460W isn't that much now that 680's are available, and a nice high end system like that may need more power,lgbpop should chime in with the PSU calculator link soon.
well that was a total pooch screw:/
all the bits arrived at 9 am this morning had the system build by 10.30
too it upstaris and pluged monitor in booted her up to bios then the problems started.
it was takeing over 2 minuits for it to detect the ide drives when it finaly let me into bios i configured it to boot from cd then hdd plonkd the xp cd in and saved changes in bios restarted her then took anouther 2 mins to sort ide drives out would not load from xd hmmm
it has a option on bios to select boot device so i get the cd /dvd rom and off we go instaling xp .
xp instals first time no problems
reboots itself and tries to boot from hdd again 2 mins on bios screen then it goes to variying dmi pool data for abouther couple of mins then it kicked in with the xp slash screen and continued to load windows perfectly .
once all the genral windows bits sorted out i went to install the mobo drivers so took xp cd out mobo cd in all drivers instaled fine system reboots.
again still sits on the bios for ages finaly loads windows so at this stage i get onto tech suport at overclockers who i will say were very helpfull i ended up in a conference call with 3 tech guys for over 40 mins by this stage it had totayly stoped booting would get to dim pool data then say please insert system disk
yet if i booted from the hdd with the xp cd in the drive it bootd up fine.
now for the killer the tech asked if i had acss to anouther comp near by which i have downstairs as he wanted me to try flashing the bios so after a bit of charging about tying to find a floppy disk got the latest bios on and we went and flashed the bios now it would not even boot from hdd with the xp cd in no matter what we tried dam thing would not boot.
ended up haveing to strip the pc down again repackaging the mobo redy to be posted back to em on monday.
the tech and customer suport people got there heads together and recomended that i go for an ausu board as you know i have had major problems with asus in the past but they said if i had probs i could deal with it through them and they would help to try and sort it for me if not they would rma it themselfs so i now have a new asus mobo Asus A8N-SLi SE nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard which will be hear on tuesday so hopefully fingeres crossed will have a working system tuesday evening.
realy has iritaded me that but i guess it hapens sometimes.
the hdd that was in the new pc was the one from my old comp to make sure i wasent going mad i took it out of the new machine and put it back in old one and am useing it now to post this message with the exact origional install on it from the new pc so im guessing that at leastthe hdd is ok lol:/
Last edited by igual; March 25th, 2006 at 01:09 PM.
well bad luck. at least it seems like the people at Overclockers gave it their best to help you. be thankful you didn't order it from a company that takes ages to answer and is located on the other side of the planet. i know your not a fan of Asus but they are generally great boards, so i hope you have better look with that.
Windows 7, Asus P5Q-E iP45 , Core 2 Duo E8400, 4GB Ballistix DDR2 800MHz, GeForce 9600.
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