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chaos

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My brother is going to buy my htpc rig so I'm looking for some new parts. Think I want to try the am3 route so need some suggestions on mobo. Looking at these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813153151 (can use ddr2 memory)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135236
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130224R (open box-$40 savings)
Would like to do some overclocking and a little gaming. Will probably get the PII 720 and put my 4850 in it. Any other suggestions would be appreciated also..
 
yeah-trying to keep it under $120 if possible-but I am looking at the G65 -been lucky with open box stuff-been getting all the 'goodies' with the boards and both open box boards I got from newegg were msi..Still think the Jetway
board is a contender-can use older ddr2 ram with it also..
 
if you already have good ddr2 then i would go with that one. why spend an extra 100 on RAM.
 
Honestly all the brands your have chosen are crap! Jetway, ECS, and MSI are junk. MSI is the best of the 3, but they have NO customer service.

Go with ASRock or gigabyte-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157152

Or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128378

The second one has a MIR, so it would take it back under your price limit.


Prices of DDR3 are coming down, here's what I have-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231193

It's a higher latency of 9, but the speed makes up for it and then some. It's faster than my DDR2-1066 ram was at 5-5-5-15.
 
MSI may have no customer service, but the board that I got with them is super. Very good overclocker and great overall board. Asus and Gigabyte are two companies you cant go wrong with.
 
Marshmallow64 said:
MSI may have no customer service, but the board that I got with them is super. Very good overclocker and great overall board. Asus and Gigabyte are two companies you cant go wrong with.
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Yeah as long as you get a good board from them you're fine, it's if you get a DOA one....plus never count on MSI's mail in rebates, it will never come.

ASRock is a subsidiary of Asus, if thats what you were getting at (and in case the OP didn't know).
 
87dtna said:
Honestly all the brands your have chosen are crap! Jetway, ECS, and MSI are junk. MSI is the best of the 3, but they have NO customer service.

Go with ASRock or gigabyte-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157152

Or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128378

The second one has a MIR, so it would take it back under your price limit.


Prices of DDR3 are coming down, here's what I have-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231193

It's a higher latency of 9, but the speed makes up for it and then some. It's faster than my DDR2-1066 ram was at 5-5-5-15.
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^These guys speak the truth... I only use Gigabyte or Asus with my builds and have never had problems (except on my most recent GA-770T UD3P build not running 8gb of 1600ram) I would rate MSI as a distant third. I still have artifacts on my MSI 880GTS at stock speeds! Working on an RMA on this issue right now actually....

Also, why did you recommend old tech for this guy? There is a new chipset AMD 785G with higher spec IGP Radeon 4200! This is much better than the Asrock with Radeon 3300. THIS is the board to get for your midrange/IGP needs at the moment, completely new board redesigned from the ground up with (Gigabytes signature ) 2oz. of copper pcb and ASUS new Xtreme Design with 8+2 phase power:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131398

btw, I just did a build using this board for my in laws-- It is PURRRRDY in person and rock solid stable. Those 8gb of gskill 1600 fired right up in that board w/ absolutely no changes in bios. Something my other 770T Gigabyte board would not do!!
 
He said he was putting a 4850 graphics card in it, so internal graphics are not being used anyway.
The 785g is only a modified version of a 780g, the 790gx chipset is still a better overclocking board than a 785g.
 
87dtna said:
Honestly all the brands your have chosen are crap! Jetway, ECS, and MSI are junk. MSI is the best of the 3, but they have NO customer service.

Go with ASRock or gigabyte-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157152

Or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128378

The second one has a MIR, so it would take it back under your price limit.


Prices of DDR3 are coming down, here's what I have-

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231193

It's a higher latency of 9, but the speed makes up for it and then some. It's faster than my DDR2-1066 ram was at 5-5-5-15.
Click to expand...

MSI, on the AMD side is not crap. They make arguably one of the best high end AM3 board available. I am actually about to pick one up.
 
Ha-Nocri said:
@87dtna

I thought they are the same when it is 'bout OC-ing. Show us some proof for your words...
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The SB750 overclocks better than the 710. The 785g still uses the 710, 790gx uses the 750. Do you own research if you don't believe me.
 
I thought the only difference between SB710 and SB750 was ability for RAID 5 on the later one?
 
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