question about replacement of GIGABYTE GA-X48-DS4 LGA 775 motherboard

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Bacillus98

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Hello. I recently had my GIGABYTE GA-X48-DS4 LGA 775 Intel X48 ATX intel motherboard die on me and I am in the market for a replacement. Unfortunately this particular model is not available anywhere I look so I was hoping you guys could help me find a replacement. I do plan to eventually upgrade to more modern motherboards/cpus however I need a temporary stopgap in the meantime. My current specs are as follows:

Intel Core 2 Duo E8500
GIGABYTE GA-X48-DS4
Radeon HD 4870 X2
G.SKILL 4GB SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500)
Windows 7 64 bit

I am trying to find a motherboard that supports my video card (it needs a PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot) and my RAM speed (DDR2 1066). I have looked at some mobos such as MSI and it seems a lot of them only support RAM speeds of DDR2 667/800. I am not sure if that would mean my RAM would not be able to be used. I am willing to buy some RAM as well as long as its relatively cheap. I am trying to spend no more than 100 dollars. Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated.
 
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DaveSimmons

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If you are not overclocking, you can run the DDR at lower speed 666/800 without any problems -- that is just the fastest speed for your RAM.

When my Gigabyte P35 board died, I replaced it with a $35 Foxconn G31 micro-ATX and it worked fine with my E8400, 4 GB and 6850. mATX does fit into regular size cases.
 
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janas19

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Gigabyte GA-EP45-xxxx would be my recommendation. I have the Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3L and it works great. Supports the Wolfdale processors and RAM speeds up to 1333mHz. Basically any P45 Gigabyte would work. I think the lite models go for $50 on Ebay, and the ones with SLI or DDR3 are about $100.
 
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vailr

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I bought a used Intel DG43NB motherboard off eBay for ~$20. Socket 775, DDR2, G43 chipset, full-size ATX board.
http://ark.intel.com/products/35360/Intel-Desktop-Board-DG43NB
Works fine with E7500 CPU. Some business place was upgrading their machines, and had several of these slightly outdated socket 775 boards to sell. I just use the onboard video, but there's a 16x PCIe video card slot available, if you wanted to add a video card.
 
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DaveSimmons said:
The Newegg.com specs for that board say it only has a 90-day warranty, so you might want to pick one of the other 5 or so G31 / G41 boards that Newegg stocks.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N=100007627 600007879&IsNodeId=1&name=LGA 775

This Biostar G41 is $50 with a 3-year warranty:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138314
Click to expand...

OP, this looks good to me. It's a basic, inexpensive board that will tide you over until you can upgrade your CPU/mobo/RAM. There's no reason to spend a bunch of money on a new LGA 775 mobo these days.
 
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engiNURD

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You can also check the FS/T forum if you want something better than a GXX chipset, but don't want to pay too much.
 
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DaveSimmons said:
The Newegg.com specs for that board say it only has a 90-day warranty, so you might want to pick one of the other 5 or so G31 / G41 boards that Newegg stocks.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N=100007627 600007879&IsNodeId=1&name=LGA 775

This Biostar G41 is $50 with a 3-year warranty:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138314
Click to expand...
The only thing to note about this is that G41 boards with 1333MHz FSB chips are practically un-overclockable. G31 boards are actually a little better in my experience. Of course, if you're not overclocking, no worries. :cool:
 
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