reccomend me a mobo pls.

PygmyArr · 30 Mar 2010 at 13:14

hello folks, i've just beenout on a whim and bought a phenom II x4 940 black edition cpu off ebay. :rolleyes:

but it isnt supported on my current motherboard, a foxconn a690gm2ma, and a bios update doesn't seem to fix it.

so i'm gonna have to defer the rent another week and get a new motherboard.

the only criteria is A) 4 ddr2 ram slots, B) pci-e slot for gfx.

i'd prefer it to be as cheap as possible aswell.

thanks in advance.

n1ckkk · 30 Mar 2010 at 13:27

youre gonna defer rent to get a new mobo? lol? thats kinda sad.

thingemajib · 1 Apr 2010 at 16:51

well you're looking at a socket AM2+ board. whatever you go with, it will have at least one PCIe x16 slot, and 99.9999% have 4 memory slots, so those shouldn't be a problem.

i personally wouldn't reccomend foxconn (only got mine cos it was cheaper than competition and it looked pretty ... big mistake).

generally people go for Asus/gigabyte. As you're talking about deferring rent and want cheap, id look at the boards with either a 770 or 780G chipset. (the only major difference is that the 780G has integrated graphics ... and pretty dam good integrated at that.)

stulid · 1 Apr 2010 at 17:01

Go with what Thingy said.

Just before purchase, visit the motherboard manufacture website, and check the CPU support list to check what ever your looking at will take the CPU.

cmndr_andi · 1 Apr 2010 at 17:02

This is a good board and has everything you require.