need a new motherboard...any recommendation?

jesta · 7 Apr 2006 at 20:27

hi,
i need a new motherboard for my PC(see my sig for spec). i have a budget of £55.the main thing i will need is PCI-Express and supports dual core AMD.

so what do you recommend?

cheers

jesta · 9 Apr 2006 at 18:55

bump

no one at all?how are the gigabyte ones from OCUK? do they support dual cores without updating BIOS?

jesta · 9 Apr 2006 at 19:26

does this support AMD Athlon X2 cpu's?

jesta · 9 Apr 2006 at 19:35

have you got one?
the price sounds great!!
do i need to update the BIOS for Athlon X2 cpu to work(had a disaster with my epox mobo)? how are they for overclocking??

cheers so far

jesta · 9 Apr 2006 at 19:41

lol...yeah updating the BIOS do make the PC performance better but last time i did an update my PC froze and my motherboard was ruined!

.lol

will check it out though. cheers for the help!

jesta · 9 Apr 2006 at 21:12

yeah will use winflash,lets hope nothing goes wrong this time!
i need some thermal compound for the cpu and heatsink now dont i since when i take all the parts off from my old mobo the heatsink and the cpu will be separted so will i need thermal compound thingy?lol...im such a n00b

jesta · 9 Apr 2006 at 22:19

yup its a standard cooler. the artic silver 5 is £12 includind delivery

!!
would any thermal compound do?saw some thermal compound from a competitors site for 46p!

jesta · 10 Apr 2006 at 18:26

lol.yeah ordered some thermal compound from competitors.not too fussed about overclocking, the thermal compound was only 46p so at that price i just couldnt refuse!!

jesta · 14 Apr 2006 at 22:03

got the board yesterday,installing it all later. was wondering do i need a Sata disk set up thing or does it just pick up that my hard drive is Sata?

how much thermal paste do i need on the cpu?

cheers