Yes the saga of my 2am mother board purchase ended at 6:34pm Tuesday July 28, 2009 when it was pronounced DOA. Cause of death the nForce 710a north bridge burned up in a ball of hot silicon, that is the tard design of having a nVidia 8200 GPU in the north-bridge chip with NO cooling or fins finally made it give up. http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en-us/t-series/introduction.php?S_ID=361# The 720a chip was running at 70c ( normal operating temperatures should not exceed 50c on that chip ), I was about to add a copper heat sink and fan but it's dead now ( anyone want to buy a chipset cooler? $12 cheep! )
So I've turned the page and need to get back on my feet ( need a PC to complete my resurch for next month's talk ) here is what I'm thinking of doing: 1) Salvage my 2600+ 65w 64bit Athlon CPU and 4GB of DDR2 memory along with power supply ( 550w ) case etc. 2) Get the following new MB and new Video card: GIGABYTE GA-MA790X-UD4P AM3/AM2+/AM2 AMD 790X ATX AMD Motherboard( since this board has the AMD 790x + SB750 chipset, the best one out currently ) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128387 SAPPHIRE 100255HDMI Radeon HD 4670 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready Video Card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102820 3) Then by Q2-Q4 2010 I will upgrade my CPU to a 4 core since this mother board can easy support AM2+/AM3 versions So before making the 2am mistake again any suggestions, comments, constructive discussion? Joe _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jul 1 - Linux High Performance Computing Aug 5 - TBD Sept 2 - Linux and HDTV
