Motherboard is fried...

Arro · Post by **Arro** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:52 pm

I had an electrical surge at my house, and it basically fried my motherboard.

Any of you have a suggestion for a replacement???

Thank you.

hogleg · Post by **hogleg** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 5:58 pm

Might want to get something that supports Hyperthreading.
http://support.intel.com/support/proces ... 017371.htm

Post by **Rookie One.pl** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:41 pm

Or AMD64.

Jack Ruby · Post by **Jack Ruby** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:56 pm

I recently upgraded, I went with athlon, got an XP 64 3000, got 1gb of ram and im really happy with it, this is the mobo I bought:

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/ ... hp?UID=607

I am totally happy with it so far, had it a couple of months or so.

ps, you might want to look into getting one that has a PCI express slot, my budget wasnt too big so I couldnt get a new gfx card too.

hogleg · Post by **hogleg** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 8:47 pm

? Did you have a real surge protector ?
Or one of those fake ones

General Death · Post by **General Death** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:25 pm

hogleg wrote:? Did you have a real surge protector ?
Or one of those fake ones

That would be my first question....some of them cover damage up to a certain dollar amount.

If not do you plan on replacing anything else?

I just upgraded to a complete new system and used a A8N-SLI board.

Elgan · Post by **Elgan** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:43 pm

you really need to give some info on what routes and cost you wish to go with.,

AMD 64 is nice. or intel if u just like wasting money:D

i have a AMD 64 FX51 with a nice mobo. the mobo is old now though but i love it way more then the new ones.

like gen death said also depends if your going to upgrade with new stuff.

if u get a A8n-SLI u will prob need new ram, gfx card , cpu etc? u didnt say what mobo u had in the first place?

SLi seems to be prooving itself but isnt really nesisary yet. Any single card can punch engough for any game engine atm. whats the point in buying 2 sli cards?

if u waited they wud go cheaper and the new tech will come out for them to run and be worth wile.