Upgrading from a piece of garbage!

Mez

Mez

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I have had soooooooooooooooooooo many problems with my motherboard in my signature! It reads the RAM when it feels like it, BARELY enough room for a STOCK CPU cooler, supports only 4 GBs of ram, and only has 2 slots for RAM, NO overclocking abilities what-so-ever.

Anywhoooo...

I am thinking of upgrading my motherboard. I am looking for an AMD mobo in the 100-120$ price range. It could be AM2/AM2+ OR just plain AM2.

Heres the mobo i've had my eye on: Plus, it has Hybrid CrossfireX, Regular crossifre, and Onboard HD 3200, which in Hybrid X-Fre should support my 2600XT
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138128

Please tell me what you think, or what you would suggest =]

Any help is appreciated :D
 
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MMezna said:
I have had soooooooooooooooooooo many problems with my motherboard in my signature! It reads the RAM when it feels like it, BARELY enough room for a STOCK CPU cooler, supports only 4 GBs of ram, and only has 2 slots for RAM, NO overclocking abilities what-so-ever.

Anywhoooo...

I am thinking of upgrading my motherboard. I am looking for an AMD mobo in the 100-120$ price range. It could be AM2/AM2+ OR just plain AM2.

Heres the mobo i've had my eye on:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138128

Please tell me what you think, or what you would suggest =]

Any help is appreciated :D
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Well your first problem is you have a AMD ...haha...J/K :D

That board you picked out doesnt have many high reviews which is what I tend to look at as something must have happened to make someone list it average or below.Just a red flag to me.I would check some others to see if they were higher rated
 
Scubie67 said:
Well your first problem is you have a AMD ...haha...J/K :D

That board you picked out doesnt have many high reviews which is what I tend to look at as something must have happened to make someone list it average or below.Just a red flag to me.I would check some others to see if they were higher rated
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Ahahaahha I've had alot of experience with AMD and have fell in love with it :P, and I was just looking for a nice computer to play games like BF2, that didn't cost that much. But thanks, and I will take your suggestion and look for higher rated ones.
 
I know... that let my down, but biostars quality (to me) depends on how much you spend on the product. For example: 25-50$ mobo: Good chance of DOA/problems. 75-100$: Pretty much no DOA or problems
 
Biostar is worse than MSI. Screw that hybrid crap. As far as I know Hybrid only works with the 3400 series cards, maybe some of the the 2900 series. This is the best AMD crossfire board for the money.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136044

Like its Radeon HD 3200 predecessor, the 3300 supports Hybrid CrossFire configurations with Radeon HD 3400 series discrete graphics cards. According to AMD, the 790GX's graphics clock boost and performance cache memory allow Hybrid CrossFire setups that incorporate a Radeon HD 3470 to offer performance close to that of a Radeon HD 3650.
http://www.techreport.com/articles.x/15256
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813136044
 
AMD CPU have "no" overclocking ability anyway (Compare to intel), no matter what Mobo you got.

If you have $100-120, the fastest way to uplift its gaming ability is buying a 8800GT.

Also, when you taking about the board only support 4GB RAM, the only issue will be when you want to go over 4GB. I see you only got 2GB, why border about how much RAM your current Mobo support?
 
because, later on im planning to upgrade to 6 GB of ram, and vista ultimate 64-bit
 
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