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March 19th, 2010, 15:04
Early this year my 3+ year old Asus mobo died, so I went shopping at Newegg. With little money to spend and wanting to use existing parts (CPU and RAM) I found a Gigabyte mobo that sounded good. Installed OK, got Windows going again, but have had to do two additional reinstalls since, due to boot errors. Tuesday I went to Best Buy and got Win 7 Home 64, installed and it seemed OK. Wednesday I had boot problems first time starting, eventually worked things out and got FSX installed. Thursday I had problems when the computer got turned on and it all went down hill from there... Waiting for Gigabyte's support to answer my request, shouldn't take long...
Went shopping at Newegg, as I had been thinking about a new system, after my next release and only if it made any $$$. But a payware scenery designer doesn't make any money with a bad mobo. So despite not having the true desire, I whipped out the credit card and bought the following;
Intel i930 processor
EVGA E758-A1 mobo
Patriot DDR3-1333 RAM at 7-7-7-20
and some various assorted parts to build a system.
I'm planning to reuse my nVidia 9800 GTX+ for now, as I couldn't see plunking down more $$ for a video card. But maybe around Christmas I'll check out the newer models.
For now I'll leave things at stock settings, as I need to finish the project that's 95% ready to sell. Then I'll come around looking for advice to "safely" boost that 930 beyond 2.8. The RAM I know little about, other than it's timings were better than most of the others which were around 9-9-9-24. With my luck this year, it'll probably blow up!
Went shopping at Newegg, as I had been thinking about a new system, after my next release and only if it made any $$$. But a payware scenery designer doesn't make any money with a bad mobo. So despite not having the true desire, I whipped out the credit card and bought the following;
Intel i930 processor
EVGA E758-A1 mobo
Patriot DDR3-1333 RAM at 7-7-7-20
and some various assorted parts to build a system.
I'm planning to reuse my nVidia 9800 GTX+ for now, as I couldn't see plunking down more $$ for a video card. But maybe around Christmas I'll check out the newer models.
For now I'll leave things at stock settings, as I need to finish the project that's 95% ready to sell. Then I'll come around looking for advice to "safely" boost that 930 beyond 2.8. The RAM I know little about, other than it's timings were better than most of the others which were around 9-9-9-24. With my luck this year, it'll probably blow up!