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October 5th, 2005, 03:27 PM
#1
Finding A motherboard and Graphics Card
ok. first off, im a big gamer, and i use all those programs like adobe photoshops, movie maker and many more. ive been having problems with my computer when i start up a game. When i start it up the sound works for about 30 seconds - 5 minutes and then shuts off. this doesnt happen to all my games only some like half life 2 and counter strike source. and when the sound turns off it stays off until i restart my comp and it works fine again. some people said it was my motherboard and others say its my sound card. this problem happened in the past so i bought a new sound card and the foxconn 650/651 series motherboard. it worked good for a while then the problem started happening again. so can anyone help me out on what i should buy or do to fix this problem. im looking for a motherboard that runs games really well and the sound is good and a graphics card that is better then the nvidia geforce FX 500. im willing to pay at least 150 on the motherboard and at least 200-250 on the graphics card.
my computer:
Intel (R)
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26 GHz
2.27 GHz
480MB of RAM
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October 5th, 2005, 04:53 PM
#2
Not only graphics and motherboard, but for games, up the ram to about 1gb. Games love ram and probably already ate that 480 you have.
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October 6th, 2005, 06:43 AM
#3
I would look to the Asus or Gigabyte mobos and get the highest model you can afford. For the sound card: Audigy 2 or the Turtle Beach Montego or Catalina. For video, I recommend an ATI Radeon X800 or better (the GT is an OK mid-range card).
Photolady is right-on about that RAM...sounds like you will need at the very least 1GB's worth.
Just for kicks, I would try moving your current card to another PCI slot to see if that behavior continues.
Desktop: Intel i7 960 CPU @ 4.0GHz, EVGA Classified 4-Way SLI mobo, 12GB Corsair Dominator-GT 2000 DDR3 RAM, Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB Solid State Drive, Two WD 2TB SATA drives, 2x EVGA GTX 570 Superclocked graphics cards in SLI, Coolermaster HAF X full tower case, OCZ ZX 1250w PSU, Corsair H100 CPU Cooler
Laptop: MSI GT60-004US, 2x Seagate Momentus XT 750GB SSD Hybrid drives in RAID 0, 16GB DDR3 1600 RAM, GeForce 670M 3GB graphics card, Networks 'Killer' N-1103 WLAN card
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October 6th, 2005, 12:07 PM
#4
Ditto on the above really, make sure if you go for a X800/X850 series that you get a compatible motherboard for the socket, as the GT is PCI-E only, whereas the XL/XT/XT-PE are all AGP, 1gb of decent RAM, such as Crucial/Corsair/Kingston etc and i like Asus boards personally....best spec you can afford as Bistro said.
Liam
Desktop:I5 2500K|Asus P8Z68-V|8GB Corsair Vengeance|1280MB Nvidia 560 TI PE|1TB Seagate/60GB OCZ SSD|LG Blu-ray Writer|Corsair 750W
27" iMac:I5 2500S|12GB Crucial DDR3|ATI 1GB 6970|1TB|Superdrive|Mighty Mouse 
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October 6th, 2005, 02:56 PM
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