Originally posted by: GeezerMan
Tiger has some great deals on the FX-60, while Newegg keeps RAISING the price, now up to 608.99 for the retail FX-60 CPU
How about the RETAIL box FX-60 and Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit for 400.00 at Tiger?
Not bad at all.
Originally posted by: Spurst
7900gs - $130
1 Gig dual channel PC3200 - had it
SATA Raptor 36gig - Had it
Cheap DL DVD burner - had it
WD Mybook 250gb External USB Drive - Had it.
I had 2 gigs of ram from my old pc. this board only likes 2 modules, because when i feed it 4, it defaults to 333mhz on my ram speed. So... im using 1 gig until i find a deal on 2 1gig sticks. Had i known my ram wouldnt work, i might have gone DDR2 and AM2, but this works fine for what I need. I am not particularly fond of the motherboard, because I think the LAN card is quirky (im having ping stability issues in games), but it might my my cable modem and not this board.
For my non-internet games, this thing seems pretty quick. I have a gigabit gaming router in the mail, so it should be nice to get a gigabit connection to my lan server.
All in all, i am very happy with this purchase. Plus, my athlon64 @2.6 that i recently got on the neweg deal before christmas gets to work as my new media center pc. I really didn't need this upgrade, but it didn't hurt.
Originally posted by: R Milford
Sorry to bother you guys again, but:
1) I moved the RAM to slots A1 & B1
2) My PSU is an Ultra 500 Watt ATX with the following;
2 Strands 4 4-Pin Molex and 1 each of 4-Pin floppy
1 Strand 2 SATA plugs
1 Strand 6-Pin (2 X 3 Rows) Plug
1 Strand 8-Pin (2 X 4 Rows) Plug
1 Strand 20-Pin (2 X 10 Rows) Plug with 1 Strand 4-Pin Square (2 X 2) that attaches to the 20-Pin plug.
I tried putting them together for the 24-Pin socket on the MB. With this set-up the fans spin but will not boot If I split them to put the 4-Pin in the ATX12 M/B socket and place the remaining 20-Pin plug in the upper 20 pins of the 24-Pin M/B Socket nothing happens (no PSU fan spin, no case fan spin).
I have read about a 20-Pin to 24-Pin conversion set of sockets , but I also read that 20-Pin will work in the 24-PIN socket.
Again, thank you all for the help. I feel like such an IDIOT!
R Milford