Posts by Evere@dy

I currently have 2 2gb sticks of Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 model number KHX1600C9D3. Im looking at some memory on newegg. Its 8gb, 2 sticks of 4gb Kingston HyperX blu red model number KHX16C9B1RK2. What is the difference between hyperx...

Thanks for everyone's help. I think the biostar should be good enough

You have a good point about the crossfire part. The TA990FXE looks like a really nice board. Its a little over my budget but it has a $25 mail in rebate. Might go with that one

Was looking at tigerdirect and newegg

Oh I see. Yep $75-$100 is my price range. Kinda like the idea of the crossfire option of all of those boards even though they run at 16X and 4X

phase VRM? whats that? I got to 3.3ghz at stock voltage. I can get it to 3.4 on stock voltage but i would have to increase the voltage on my memory

I thought about used, but I think new would be best. I like having that average 3 year warranty on new motherboards. I would be doing gaming for the most part. As well as some audio and video encoding. Maybe some slight overclocking....

Ive been needing to get rid of my DDR2 memory and AM3 mobo for a while. Im thinking its about that time. Ive got a couple of boards in mind. The Biostar TA970XE for $85 (and a $15 mail in rebate) and the Asus M5A97 for $90. I was set on...

Im going to be upgrading my motherboard soon to a GIGABYTE GA-970A-D3 and it has a Realtek ALC889 audio chipset. Is that better or the same as my old creative x-fi xtreme music? Will the sound quality be the same and will integrated take...

Thanks for all the help. Il try some paste that i have now and see if it will make contact. if not then il get some of those pads. seems handy to have around anyway