Got an i7 875K but mobo died -- what to do?

[Arachnotronic]

Okay, so my mobo died a day after I installed this shiny new 875K. I don't want to sink tons of money into a dead platform (especially the gouged prices on P55), but I don't want to "side-grade" for hundreds of dollars.

So what should I do? Try to pick up a used P55 mobo for this chip? Or should I just go full on 2600K and sell this i7 875K while I can?

 

[blackphoenix]

Geeks.com has a couple of 1156 motherboards for less than $100. Isn't a bad price to get the machine running again.

http://www.geeks.com/products_sc.asp?cat=1217

 

[Sunburn74]

sell the chip if you don't want to sidegrade.

i owned one it was a lousy overclocker. ran hot, drew lots of power, etc. Bought a 2600k and never looked back.

Sandybridge is where its at. Get what you can and call it a day

Thing to note: if you have ram that is >1.5v vdimm requirement it won't work well with the sandybridge chips.

However if you were happy with its performance and not an overclocker, then you'd not really notice a whole lot of difference and should just pick up a used board.

 

[Arachnotronic]

I think I will sell the chip and buy a Z68 + 2600K + SSD (and use the caching). Can't stomach paying anything more for a dead platform. I'll make sure my Z68 board is Ivy Compatible.

Thanks everyone.

 

[Edrick]

I think I will sell the chip and buy a Z68 + 2600K + SSD (and use the caching). Can't stomach paying anything more for a dead platform. I'll make sure my Z68 board is Ivy Compatible.

Thanks everyone.

Or you can wait 12 days and get a X79 system

 

[Arachnotronic]

*Looks at bank account balance*
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Yeah, that'd actually be a pretty great idea. 3930K it is, then.

 

[RussianSensation]

Well Asus, Gigabyte and MSI P55 boards have a 3 year warranty. I am pretty sure you may still have warranty on your board. As far as I know, the first P55 motherboard and LGA1156 CPU was on sale around September 8, 2009.

 

[Rvenger]

Well Asus, Gigabyte and MSI P55 boards have a 3 year warranty. I am pretty sure you may still have warranty on your board. As far as I know, the first P55 motherboard and LGA1156 CPU was on sale around September 8, 2009.

There you go... problem solved. Then you can sell the setup as a whole for a nice down payment on that new SB-E setup! :awe:

 

[jacktesterson]

Or you can wait 12 days and get a X79 system

Yeah at double the cost and probably 15% performance increase. Makes sense.


I'm not singling you out, I'm just stating the Answer on this forum is way too often go new. Save some money.

 

[Arachnotronic]

Well Asus, Gigabyte and MSI P55 boards have a 3 year warranty. I am pretty sure you may still have warranty on your board. As far as I know, the first P55 motherboard and LGA1156 CPU was on sale around September 8, 2009.

D'oh! I didn't realize that these boards do have a warranty!

However, it seems like the mobo *may* be alive -- once I disabled the quick POST, I got "RAM R/W Test Failed", meaning, well, my memory's probably bad. I don't mind dropping some money on a new kit...

But after pressing the continue key, the computer just reboots -- it doesn't even try to get to Windows. So I don't know...

 

[Edrick]

Yeah at double the cost and probably 15% performance increase. Makes sense.

Double the cost huh? I expect a $100 premium on MBs by going to x79. Everything else is the same price. (the quad core lga2011 cpu may actually be cheaper than the 2700k, and yet be slightly faster.) And for that $100 MB premium, you get more PCI lanes (40 vs 16), quad channel memory, ability to go to 6 and 8 core CPUs, higher memory OC, BCLK OCing.

Makes perfect sense to me.