Installed new Mobo today

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Aaron1100us

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I've never intalled a mobo by myself and today was the first time. I had a friend that did most of the work to my computer but he had recently moved away. Well, about two weeks ago, my ECS L4VXA2 mobo died after attempting some OC'ing. Well, the BIOS crashed and I was unable to do anything, it wouldn't even read the floppy or CD-Rom. So, I did some research on here to find a decent mobo that I wouldn't have to worry about dieing and would be fairly easy to OC. Since I have an Intel cpu, 512 DDR, and a new HSF, I wanted to keep with the 478 socket platform. Didn't really want to spend the money for a new style setup. So, I ordered an ASUS P4P800 SE. Its a fairly tight fit in my Dynex mid tower, just enough room. I also ordered some round IDE cables to help with air flow, two 92mm tornadoes on a controler and an 80mm fan for the blow hole that I cut out. Installation couldn't have been easier. Since I've never done this before, I figured something was bound to go wrong and I'd be on here trying to figure it out. The mobo was pretty much plug and play, didn't have to change to adjust anything in BIOS at all either. I installed according to directions and I just can't believe how easy it was. Everything is up and running great. I even played with the ASUS AI Oveclock program. Haven't learned how to get it to store the settings yet but wow, overclocking can't be that easy. Got my 2.7Ghz Celeron up to 3.01Ghz and could probably go farther, just haven't yet. Yes, I know, junk CPU but I plan on getting a P4 sometime. So far, I'm pretty darn impressed with this new mobo. I know now why everyone says good things about ASUS. My advice to people building a computer, don't waste money on a junk board. My computer was just built this past January and the ECS mobo died allready. Plus the programs that come with boards like this are pretty cool.
 
Ya after my first build, I was rather shocked how easy it was to put everything together, well congratz I guess.:P
 
yeah, I shocked my dad^

he was assured it wouldn't work and I'd be out $1k.

he'd wanted to find something from a big company, like dell etc. we got a new dell at about the same time, and turned out mine was up and running in way less time. :P
 
Congratulations! When I first started reading I thought you were saying that you messed up by buying the wrong socket or something. But it's good to hear that you had sucess.
 
Its good to hear a sucess story. Im glad that you didnt have any problems, when I popped in my first mobo (about 1 week ago), I had so many problems that My friend came over and had to help me, I was embarrased so I never posted anything about it
 
Thanks for the replies. Usually things don't allways go according to plans:) Now all I need is a new cpu, psu, more ram and a better graphics card, then I should be set for a while.
 
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