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lga775 motherboard replacement?

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dagnisaun

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I think the motherboard in my brothers PC needs to be replaced.. I briefly looked on Newegg and didn't find anything that looked good, should I buy an older one used?

needs to support C2D E8400, 4x DDR2 800/1066, and one PCI-e x16. I just want something reliable, doesn't need to be able to overclock, but I don't know much about which motherboards are good or bad. could someone help me out?

thanks for reading
 
I'd just get the cheapest one I could find, or talk brother into upgrading. The MSI looks OK, it supports two memory standards?
 
Lol, for about $120-ish he could be looking at an H81 and a Celeron G1840 with 4GB instead of crutching an old C2D along. So no, don't waste money on a nice LGA 775 board unless a used one pops up.

Edit: $126.97, to be precise. I just checked.
 
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thanks jjmIII and Burpo, but I don't think those have 4 ddr2 slots.

schmuckley said:
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any particular p5k or p5q? I'm looking on ebay and see a bunch of different kinds.

crashtech said:
Lol, for about $120-ish he could be looking at an H81 and a Celeron G1840 with 4GB instead of crutching an old C2D along. So no, don't waste money on a nice LGA 775 board unless a used one pops up.\
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ok, thanks for the advice. you're right, I should do some research on newer stuff.
 
Well even a lowly G1840 will be 20-30% faster than the E8400, and then of course you get much better access to CPU upgrades and a much more modern platform with USB 3, SATA 6, etc.
 
crashtech said:
Well even a lowly G1840 will be 20-30% faster than the E8400, and then of course you get much better access to CPU upgrades and a much more modern platform with USB 3, SATA 6, etc.
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wow, I'm way behind with tech then. never thought today's celeron would be better than this old e8400! that changes everything 😳
 
Since Core2, Intel has had Nehalem, Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, and now Haswell. Each increment, while small, really adds up over four generations of CPU.
 
I am in a similar situation. Motherboard is almost dead so i am getting a new one.

I am going for the Gigabyte GA-G41M. It can accomodate both DDR2 and DDR3 RAM. You might find that suitable.
 
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