Help Daughters pc died, need some advice for new cpu & Board

chris_geeza · 8 Oct 2011 at 12:04

Hi my daughters motherboard has died and im looking for any sugestions for an new motherboard and cpu on a low budget of £120.

I do have everything else and some spare pc parts from my last system that im going to add.
Listed below is what ive got to put it together with.

mid tower case thermaltake
psu 500 watt
pny gtx 460 768mb (from my old system)replacing nvidia gt8600 from daughter pc
asus sata dvd-rw drive
150 gig hd sata 3
2x 2gig ddr3 budget corsair memory 1333mhz (from my old system) replacing daughters ddr2 2 gig memory.

Got everything but need some ideas for an good motherboard and cpu that will work with windows 7 64bit as that the operating system it will be using.

Thanks for looking

King Damager · 8 Oct 2011 at 12:05

What are the requirements?

At that budget I'm thinking, maybe an i3 an h mobo...

kd

Hyburnate · 8 Oct 2011 at 12:10

What size mbs does the case take?

chris_geeza · 8 Oct 2011 at 12:14

JUst need the system to run games like sims 3 and tombraider and she does her home work on the pc on the internet with her school.
needs to fit in mid tower case also that is compatible with the budget corsair ddr3 memory.
the graphics card from my old system gtx460 should do that a dodle for her, needs to be pci 16 for card and has at least 6 to 8 usb. also she has an camcorder so something that has lot of media connections i think different ports

chris_geeza · 8 Oct 2011 at 12:18

motherboard that died was an asus m2a-vm with an amd 64x2 dual core 4400 2.3ghz cpu

Reaper 392 · 8 Oct 2011 at 12:21

what make + model PSU is it? it needs to be a half decent brand of PSU to run a GTX 460. everything else should be fine though.

CPU and motherboard wise the obvious choice is a socket 1155 pentium and the cheapest H67 motherboard. allows for great upgrade paths being a socket 1155 with SB3 and SATA 6GB/s:

YOUR BASKET
1 x MSI H67MA-E35 Intel H67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Micro-ATX Motherboard - (Sandybridge) **B3 REVISION** £61.99
1 x Intel Pentium G620 2.60GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £51.98
Total : £124.48 (includes shipping : £8.75).

chris_geeza · 8 Oct 2011 at 12:22

http://http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/432

chris_geeza · 8 Oct 2011 at 12:31

power supply is an cit model 500ub i know its not great but bought this to check if the power supply was at fault so stuck with it.
specs below for it are
voltage 230vac /frequency 50-60hz input currrent 5a

+3.3v@28A / +5 30A / +12V1@14A / +12V2@13A / -12V 0.3A / [email protected]

Total max output 500w.
with dual 12v rails 24 pin /atx12 v2.2 /pci express connector just1 and serial sata and floppy connector.

hope that tells you something just took that of the box lol

chris_geeza · 8 Oct 2011 at 12:32

got to go to work now but will be back on later, and thanks for the replys so far.

Reaper 392 · 8 Oct 2011 at 12:46

chris_geeza said:
power supply is an cit model 500ub i know its not great but bought this to check if the power supply was at fault so stuck with it.
specs below for it are
voltage 230vac /frequency 50-60hz input currrent 5a

+3.3v@28A / +5 30A / +12V1@14A / +12V2@13A / -12V 0.3A / [email protected]

Total max output 500w.
with dual 12v rails 24 pin /atx12 v2.2 /pci express connector just1 and serial sata and floppy connector.

hope that tells you something just took that of the box lol

thats enough info to know you'll need a new PSU to run the GTX 460. it might just about cope, but it would be a massive risk on that PSU. the problem with cheap PSUs is that they have far too little power on the 12V lines, which is where ~95% of the power is needed in a PC. they also have very little protection circuitry on them and often take out other parts with them when they die

on the bright side a new PSU will reduce the electric bill because it will be far more efficient

its way over budget, but heres my new recommendation with PSU included:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Pentium G620 2.60GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £51.98
1 x MSI H61M-E33 Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard **B3 REVISION** £46.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L7 530W '80 Plus' Power Supply £45.98
Total : £156.96 (includes shipping : £10.00).

if you look at my signature you'll see that im fairly confident that the PSU can cope with a GTX 460 768MB

also, if you look at the 12V rails on the bequiet it has 2x 18A 12V rails, rather than 1x 14A and 1x 13A, giving it an extra 108W on the 12V rails. its also has an 80+ rating, meaning that between 20% and 80% of its rated power it is guaranteed to be more than 80% efficient, which is going to be way better than what the CiT can do

bobbarley · 8 Oct 2011 at 12:56

Reaper 392 said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Pentium G620 2.60GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £51.98
1 x MSI H61M-E33 Intel H61 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard **B3 REVISION** £46.99
1 x BeQuiet Pure Power L7 530W '80 Plus' Power Supply £45.98
Total : £156.96 (includes shipping : £10.00).

Looks pretty good to me. Like he said gives scope to upgrade later on if needs be.

God I wish I had spare GTX 460's lying around!!

Reaper 392 · 8 Oct 2011 at 13:18

bobbarley said:
Looks pretty good to me. Like he said gives scope to upgrade later on if needs be.

God I wish I had spare GTX 460's lying around!!

sorry to be off topic, but ive just noticed how similar your rig is to mine.... i wish i could work out how to overclock the processor while still keeping the power saving clock slowing features active on it

bobbarley · 8 Oct 2011 at 13:19

I was just thinking how similar they are as well! To be honest I'm having trouble over clocking the system full stop. Anything over 3.5Ghz and programs start crashing, benchmarks blue screen it. No idea why.