So against some common advice, I bought an open box MB from Newegg. It was $47 off a $139 Asus, so i figured I'd take a chance. They had a limit of 5 per customer, so I'm hoping it was just an overstock. It's coming with a 30 day return, not 15.
Is there a systematic way to test a MBs functionality, other than plugging items into all of the ports and checking on functionality?
Components I bought to add to the case PSU, GPU and HD in my sig:
I know it's not good to be running multiple new items at once, but it's hard not to with the MB being the component in my old system that is dying.
I also was going to plug in my old HD with WinXP on it to do the testing rather than build a new one and add more degrees of freedom. I will soon add a new SATA drive that would likely run the Win7 32 bit RC.
Thanks,
Is there a systematic way to test a MBs functionality, other than plugging items into all of the ports and checking on functionality?
Components I bought to add to the case PSU, GPU and HD in my sig:
- ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 AMD 790GX HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Athlon II X4 620 Propus 2.6GHz Socket AM3 95W Quad-Core Processor Model ADX620WFGIBOX - Retail
OCZ Gold 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1066 (PC3 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model OCZ3G10664GK - Retail
I know it's not good to be running multiple new items at once, but it's hard not to with the MB being the component in my old system that is dying.
I also was going to plug in my old HD with WinXP on it to do the testing rather than build a new one and add more degrees of freedom. I will soon add a new SATA drive that would likely run the Win7 32 bit RC.
Thanks,
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