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yaverick

yaverick

yaverick

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hi guys computer i made in 2007 from this website has stopped working after transporting it in the car while moving house, upon power up it keeps turning on and off constantly. After having a friend take a look at he reckons its the motherboard unfortunately for me I cant find a replacement motherboard. So I guess my only option is to upgrade and sell my old ram and cpu.

I have had a look at 3 options but since I haven't been active in the computer market for the past couple of years I don't know which is better

1)

2) http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-080-OE
Cost £363.18 upgraded option 8gb ram

3) http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-078-OE&groupid=43&catid=2053&subcat=
cost £380 upgraded option 8gb ram

First of all thanks a lot guys and if there is anything else you would like to suggest please do so :), budget is around 350-400, I have no experience with over clocking so the first option will probably remain at stock unless I learn how to over clock :p would like to use everything else from my old pc build is as listed below:

Akasa AK-15-NSBLPC Blue Neon String 150cm - Internal Kit £7.99 1 £7.99
Akasa AK-178-RD 12" Cold Cathode - Red £7.99 1 £7.99
BFG GeForce 8800 GTX OC2 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £329.99 1 £329.99
OCZ GameXStream 600w Silent SLI Ready ATX2 Power Supply £49.99 1 £49.99
Samsung SH-S183ABEBN 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer Serial ATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM £17.99 1 £17.99
Western Digital Caviar Blue 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD5000AAKS) £56.99 1 £56.99
Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £124.99 1 £124.99
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "LGA775 Kentsfield" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £149.99 1 £149.99
 
I have the non sli/crossfire version of that board, comes with an auto overclocker - not used it for long myself but seems to work fairly well along with a turbo button so if anything you can use that. Youd just wanna monitor the voltage/temps to make sure they dont go to high.

As for the spec I cant comment on it yet, not enough time but stulid will be around ;)
 
unless you are video encoding or using programs that make use of hyper threading then for option 1 go with i2500k saving £80 which can be used for a better motherboard, the asrock extreme4 gen seems to be in favour at the moment. the asrock has pci-e 3.0 so when ivy bridge and pci-3.0 graphics cards are relased you can upgrade to them without needing to change the motherboard.

i2500k

Asrock Extreme 4 Gen 3

if you want the kingstom ram then you better get in there soon as the offer is today only.

btw do you have another psu? it could be the psu thats going
 
Tbh pcie 2.0 has plenty of life yet, u can run it at 8x with high end cards like the 580 and not notice any difference at all.
 
maxiboy im pretty sure because we took everything apart and remade it again still the same issue and yes I do have another psu but it is running the machine im currently on, I could take it apart and give it a test just to be sure I guess.

Fowler I don't video encode, just use the machine for gaming so might aswell go with the i2500k then, not planning on changing the bfg card for another couple of years yet or unless something goes wrong with it :p still reckon its worth going for that asrock extreme or better to pocket the money? and shall I ignore the bundles there is the advantage that they will come over clocked but I reckon with a bit of reading I could do that myself.
 
good call on the psu fowler saved me a lot of time any money, just checked it using the 1 from this computer and everything boots up fine so it is the psu then will find a decent replacement dunno if the warranty is still active tho
 
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