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Current motherboard has cancer, need replacement recommendation

Bulldog13

Bulldog13

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Good morning

The SATA ports on my EVGA 132-CK-NF78-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard are going bad and I am down to my last 2 of them.

I need a recommendation on a replacement motherboard for it.

The CPU I am current using is Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 Wolfdale 3.16GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor BX80570E8500. Not overclocked.

8 gigs ram CORSAIR XMS2 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X4096-6400C5

And finally, EVGA 896-P3-1267-AR GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked Edition 896MB 448-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI in SLI.

Thoughts? I was also considering jumping over to an AMD CPU/MOBO if the price & performance was right, but I wanted to hold off on a major upgrade until around Christmas.
 
ModestGamer said:
You should be able to get a comparable AMD CPU MB combo for something of this level of performance for under $100
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Can you point me at a quad core combo that supports AMD virtualization (AMD-V) with comparable (or more) performance to the Core 2 Duo E8500?

Also what would be a good bargain based motherboard replacement if I didn't want to swap to AMD, but instead wanted to continue using the E8500 ?
 
If you want to run SLI on an AMD platform you don't have much choice as far as motherboards go. Looking at newegg they still have 5 motherboards using old nvidia chipsets but these things are a dying breed.
 
The cheapest way to solve your problem now would be to RMA the board and be without your desktop during the RMA period.

Or, since the E8500 is still a very potent cpu especially for gaming, unless you really want a quadcore, just replace the motherboard. (And sell the refurb when you get that back from RMAing your current board.) Plus you're already heavily invested in DDR2.
This would be a good solution.

Or, reconsider that major upgrade and make the switch to DDR3 w/ either Intel or AMD right now. You can get an AMD quad, board, and 4gb DDR3 for ~$300. What are you doing that requires 8gb, anyway?
 
I've looked at this thread a few times, so here's my recommendation. Either buy a cheap P43/45 board to hold you over until the end of the year when you upgrade, or pick up the ASUS P5N-D recommended earlier. The P5N-D is the only way you can use your SLI setup cheaply right now, at least after looking at a couple major e-tailers.

ModestGamer said:
Is it really helping him that much in the first place ?
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That's not your call to make and is irrelevant. We're talking about his PC here. What the OP wants, goes. Since he has an SLI configuration, we should be helping him find a cheap SLI-capable board or something that can adequately hold him over for a few months. Besides, that e8500 is plenty powerful enough to game with still. No need in trying to convince the OP to spend more money than is necessary when he's already planning on doing a serious overhaul in December.
 
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