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Recommend me a motherboard!
Riale
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I'm a little slowRegistered User regular
Long story short, my MOBO is borked and my backup computer has a battery that could go at any second, so I need a new one, pronto!
My old mobo was this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131142
Space in my case is kind of tight, so I definitely need SATA ports that face upward like in that board. However, the locations for screws in my case leave a little space between the end of this board and the next spot to screw it in, so it's never been securely fastened. Something that's 12.0 x 9.6 instead would work a lot better I think, or even smaller than the current if possible.
I don't care about SLI. All I care about is 4 slots for ram (DDR2 800 compatible). Motherboards are the part i know the least about, and after getting burned on this one I'm pretty careful about what I get now. Any recommendations?
My old mobo was this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131142
Space in my case is kind of tight, so I definitely need SATA ports that face upward like in that board. However, the locations for screws in my case leave a little space between the end of this board and the next spot to screw it in, so it's never been securely fastened. Something that's 12.0 x 9.6 instead would work a lot better I think, or even smaller than the current if possible.
I don't care about SLI. All I care about is 4 slots for ram (DDR2 800 compatible). Motherboards are the part i know the least about, and after getting burned on this one I'm pretty careful about what I get now. Any recommendations?
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Any warranty left from the manufacturer?
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Works pretty good, has a ton on SATA ports onboard. Even comes with an adapter to do eSATA, if you need that.
Even so, Get a new board, rma the dead one, and sell it when you get it back - free upgrade.
I was considering that board, so it's nice to have a personal opinion from someone. My only concern was how close the PCI-E slot is to the RAM sockets. I have a honkin 8800GT and I'm worried if it'll all fit in there okay.
Also I saw a couple comments from people on Newegg about the board needing a lot more juice than normal. I'm not changing out any of my other components, but I'm only using a 500W Seasonic PSU, do you think I should upgrade that while I'm at it?
This is a good idea, I didn't even think of that. I'll have to check my documentation.
Oh, and one last general question: Anyone have some tips for applying thermal paste? when I installed on my last mobo I just used the included thermal pad. I assume that because I'm moving the CPU I'll need to take that off and apply the paste, which is the only part of the install I really dread.
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FYI, all ASUS motherboards bought after November 1st, 1999 have a 3 year warranty.