I've got a nice Phenom II 905e cpu, 8GB of ram, but this is the second motherboard to die in this system, first was 780 and either onboard audio or video died, replaced with 880gm-p51, and I failed to fully seat a PCI card and now POST dies at attempting to load cmos. This system is in a decent "media" case intended to go in the shelves with all my AV stuff, but fixing little issues and some LONG cables and it never left my work desk.
Since it croaked I built a new work system, Ryzen 5 1600 on a B450 MB, and got a couple of old Dell i5 mini towers fixed up, and I am even working on an older Dell Hybrid 140 media system, but none of those exactly fill the niche I had in mind for a system to go with all my hifi and video equipment. The system to go with the hifi gear needs to look nice in the living room, ie in the media case, and be robust enough to manage all media formats (old dell will have some issues with newest media).
Question is; find a new/used MB that works with the cpu and ram, AM3+, or move on with all new parts?
IF replacing only the MB, with what?
Since it croaked I built a new work system, Ryzen 5 1600 on a B450 MB, and got a couple of old Dell i5 mini towers fixed up, and I am even working on an older Dell Hybrid 140 media system, but none of those exactly fill the niche I had in mind for a system to go with all my hifi and video equipment. The system to go with the hifi gear needs to look nice in the living room, ie in the media case, and be robust enough to manage all media formats (old dell will have some issues with newest media).
Question is; find a new/used MB that works with the cpu and ram, AM3+, or move on with all new parts?
IF replacing only the MB, with what?