MB died and now E6600 is dead. Please Help

[TheWhoDat]

Hello all,

I have spent the last few days reading through as many thread as I could and I still need some advice. I have a nForce4 MB die and on first testing, it looked like my E6600 was fine, but after another test, it too is gone.

This may be my last upgrade for a while, in Jan., my wife and I are expecting our first child. So while I have the time and money 😉 I need to get a new MB and CPU.

I mostly play games on this computer, and do some video encoding but not much.
I do not want to overclock, I will leave it at stock speed.

I have a Dell 24" monitor, and I try to play at 1900x1200.
also 8800 GTX.

So between these three, which would you go with?

e6850
q6600
q6700

I will be playing some old games and a few of the new ones:

BF2142
Company of Heroes
World in Conflict
C&C III
Crysis
ET: Quake Wars
Sup Com

Thank you for any help/advice

 

[JSt0rm]

go quad if you wont be upgrading for a while.

 

[CurseTheSky]

If it's going to be your last upgrade for a while, go for a decently-overclockable P35 motherboard and Q6600.

Edit: processors don't "die" very often, unless they're zapped by static or overclocked to the brink of destruction. Just curious, how do you know for sure the processor is dead?

 

[JustaGeek]

Congratulations, and good luck with the child.

Well, he/she will be your main "game" after January - the Quad is probably the best option then...

 

[o1die]

I would send both in for warranty. You don't say what happened, but if both don't have any burn marks, then maybe you can get replacements.

 

[E6700]

if your not going to overclock then go with the e6850