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buzzsaw, i need your help, My motherboard craped out on me earlyer in my main computer. So I need a new one, and before you numbnuts start telling me to get a new computer or the brand new uber expencive, cant live without massively pwning pos, im poor. Leave it at that.
I had an Asus A7V8X-MX with an AMD Athlon XP 3000+ with a 333 fsb.
For ram, I've got a stick of 1024 MB of PC2700 non-ECC 184 pin DDR dimm and a stick of 512 PC2100 blah blah blah.
Vid card is a Power Color Radeon 9600XT. AGP slot, 4x or 8x, cant remember.
I need a new mobo that i can port everything over from the old one to the new one to. help please I am not an alcoholic... I am a drunk.... Alcoholics go to meetings. Grumpy wrote:WDF? wrote:Our ... is going up today, actually..... so... yeah... I'll section it. WARNING! Times mentioned in the above post are stated in WHUT time... which is not the time normal humans are accustomed. Whut time is relative. Today is defined as whenever Whut happens to get a bug up his ass and thinks he is gotten sorta of close to being in the mood. The actual real life timeframe for these occurences is unknown at this time. Sometimes it happens more than once in a day and during other periods it would be more like for hell to freeze over than anything actuallly getting done. Currently we are in a time frame where it would seem that there would be more of a chance of Dragon getting a girlfriend as far fetched as that might be than there would be of anything actually happening here.  -YourAimSucks -Reaper o'Blood -{pDs} Bloodhands
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Well, if you wanted to only replace the motherboard, then I'd suggest getting an ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe if you can find one. I've still got mine up and running since 2003 with an overclocked 1700+
I would suggest Fry's since theyre the only place that seems to still have socket A motherboards, but they are a little pricey. Also if you see an Abit NF7-S Rev2 I'd say go for that if its the same or lower in price.
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how about keeping the ram and vid card and getting a new mobo/cpu combo I am not an alcoholic... I am a drunk.... Alcoholics go to meetings. Grumpy wrote:WDF? wrote:Our ... is going up today, actually..... so... yeah... I'll section it. WARNING! Times mentioned in the above post are stated in WHUT time... which is not the time normal humans are accustomed. Whut time is relative. Today is defined as whenever Whut happens to get a bug up his ass and thinks he is gotten sorta of close to being in the mood. The actual real life timeframe for these occurences is unknown at this time. Sometimes it happens more than once in a day and during other periods it would be more like for hell to freeze over than anything actuallly getting done. Currently we are in a time frame where it would seem that there would be more of a chance of Dragon getting a girlfriend as far fetched as that might be than there would be of anything actually happening here. -YourAimSucks -Reaper o'Blood -{pDs} Bloodhands
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If you want to do that, then get an ASRockDual939 and a 3800X2. You can pick up the motherboard for around $50-70 and the processor for around $140. If you want something cheaper than you can probably go with a 3700+ San Diego core for around $70
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Oh well, if it wasn't bad enough before, Its gotten worse.
I just droped some cash on an Asus A8N-NM and an AMD 64 3800+
They gave my the wrong one.
I got socket AM2 instead of 939. I am not an alcoholic... I am a drunk.... Alcoholics go to meetings. Grumpy wrote:WDF? wrote:Our ... is going up today, actually..... so... yeah... I'll section it. WARNING! Times mentioned in the above post are stated in WHUT time... which is not the time normal humans are accustomed. Whut time is relative. Today is defined as whenever Whut happens to get a bug up his ass and thinks he is gotten sorta of close to being in the mood. The actual real life timeframe for these occurences is unknown at this time. Sometimes it happens more than once in a day and during other periods it would be more like for hell to freeze over than anything actuallly getting done. Currently we are in a time frame where it would seem that there would be more of a chance of Dragon getting a girlfriend as far fetched as that might be than there would be of anything actually happening here. -YourAimSucks -Reaper o'Blood -{pDs} Bloodhands
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bloodhands wrote:
Oh well, if it wasn't bad enough before, Its gotten worse.
I just droped some cash on an Asus A8N-NM and an AMD 64 3800+
They gave my the wrong one.
I got socket AM2 instead of 939.
Return it and get another board, the ASRock Dual should be the board to get since it has a real AGP and PCI-e slot.
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werent any. I tried frys (not even a display model) comp ussr, and a couple other local crap, er i mean comp supply stores
oh well, i got the CPU switched for the right one, got a new PSU too =( old one was fk'd and caused the mobo to go bad. I am not an alcoholic... I am a drunk.... Alcoholics go to meetings. Grumpy wrote:WDF? wrote:Our ... is going up today, actually..... so... yeah... I'll section it. WARNING! Times mentioned in the above post are stated in WHUT time... which is not the time normal humans are accustomed. Whut time is relative. Today is defined as whenever Whut happens to get a bug up his ass and thinks he is gotten sorta of close to being in the mood. The actual real life timeframe for these occurences is unknown at this time. Sometimes it happens more than once in a day and during other periods it would be more like for hell to freeze over than anything actuallly getting done. Currently we are in a time frame where it would seem that there would be more of a chance of Dragon getting a girlfriend as far fetched as that might be than there would be of anything actually happening here. -YourAimSucks -Reaper o'Blood -{pDs} Bloodhands
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Re: the 939Dual - I have one and it is sweet. It's only got an A64 3000+ in it (OC'd of course) but it has a slot for an AM2 riser card, so not only can I upgrade from my AGP card to a PCI-E card eventually but I can also upgrade from my 939 to an AM2 CPU (have to replace the RAM tho, stupid DDR2!). For a "cheap" board it's pretty bad-ass. Not the best overclocker on the planet, but it does the job. Built-in audio mysteriously crapped out on it once but after some driver trickery it revived and has had no further issues. Razor wrote:Killing people is good therapy.  
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Dick Cheney's Mechanical Heart wrote:Re: the 939Dual - I have one and it is sweet. It's only got an A64 3000+ in it (OC'd of course) but it has a slot for an AM2 riser card, so not only can I upgrade from my AGP card to a PCI-E card eventually but I can also upgrade from my 939 to an AM2 CPU (have to replace the RAM tho, stupid DDR2!). For a "cheap" board it's pretty bad-ass. Not the best overclocker on the planet, but it does the job. Built-in audio mysteriously crapped out on it once but after some driver trickery it revived and has had no further issues.
It's actually a pretty damn good OC mobo. With modified bios's that are easily found (xtremesystems.org) you can get a bios that'll allow the board to get way higher than 300mhz on the FSB
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