- Sep 7, 2010
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After a slew of random controller errors that happened when I was burning discs and once while I was gaming (1. had to unplug my SATA DVDRW from the board due to a controller error on \Device\CdRom0, which made the system stable again until 2. alternating events of parity error was detected on \Device\Scsi\nvgts1 and driver detected a controller error on \Device\Harddisk0\D that just happened out of the blue while I was playing D3 and there was a lag followed by a crash to desktop), I have decided to just pick a new motherboard and somewhat start from scratch.
While controller errors may be the common denominator (suggesting that the board is at fault), I am not overlooking the fact that these errors started after I replaced my 500gb hdd with a 1 tb and my GTS250 with a GTX560 2 months ago. Since it's a new drive, I did a fresh format, so the lingering registry entries/profiles/old drivers thing is a non-issue. Of course I may just need to reset the CMOS, but there's the possibility that my system logs will have those nasty red symbols sometime in the future.
Anyway, I have narrowed down my choices to MSI and Gigabyte. MSI because I've been using MSI for almost 13 yrs and this is the only time I've had a problem with it (and that was due to upgrades). Gigabyte because, apart from the reasonable price, I am willing to venture to "unknown territory" with another reputable brand. And this time, I'll be using a non-Nforce chipset...
Choices:
1. MSI A75MA-G55 - looks appealing on paper
2. MSI A75MA-P35 or MSI A55M-P35 - cheaper than #1, but lacks the "Military Grade Components" and Crossfire to name a few, but I can live with that
3. Gigabyte 880GM-D2H - looks good as well, although I recall reading parity errors or some errors with 880s and 770s (or something like that.. involves removing the sata drive and replacing it with a slower IDE one to remain stable).. not even sure if it's MSI or Giga
The components I'll be including:
- Athlon II X3 445 (Rana)
- 1 Tb Seagate Barracuda Sata3 (and possibly an additional 500gb)
- Corsair TX 750 (1st gen)
- 4 case fans
- 1 optical drive (Sata, unless otherwise suggested)
- Audigy 2
- GTX 560
- Corsair 4gb RAM
- the OS will still be XP SP3 for this one
Additional questions:
1. Having an ATI/AMD chipset, will my GPU cause conflicts/problems/errors with any of them?
2. Choices 1 and 2 only listed Llanos as compatible CPUs. I assume they are backward compatible with my cpu?
Thanks! And please choose among these mobos only.
While controller errors may be the common denominator (suggesting that the board is at fault), I am not overlooking the fact that these errors started after I replaced my 500gb hdd with a 1 tb and my GTS250 with a GTX560 2 months ago. Since it's a new drive, I did a fresh format, so the lingering registry entries/profiles/old drivers thing is a non-issue. Of course I may just need to reset the CMOS, but there's the possibility that my system logs will have those nasty red symbols sometime in the future.
Anyway, I have narrowed down my choices to MSI and Gigabyte. MSI because I've been using MSI for almost 13 yrs and this is the only time I've had a problem with it (and that was due to upgrades). Gigabyte because, apart from the reasonable price, I am willing to venture to "unknown territory" with another reputable brand. And this time, I'll be using a non-Nforce chipset...
Choices:
1. MSI A75MA-G55 - looks appealing on paper
2. MSI A75MA-P35 or MSI A55M-P35 - cheaper than #1, but lacks the "Military Grade Components" and Crossfire to name a few, but I can live with that
3. Gigabyte 880GM-D2H - looks good as well, although I recall reading parity errors or some errors with 880s and 770s (or something like that.. involves removing the sata drive and replacing it with a slower IDE one to remain stable).. not even sure if it's MSI or Giga
The components I'll be including:
- Athlon II X3 445 (Rana)
- 1 Tb Seagate Barracuda Sata3 (and possibly an additional 500gb)
- Corsair TX 750 (1st gen)
- 4 case fans
- 1 optical drive (Sata, unless otherwise suggested)
- Audigy 2
- GTX 560
- Corsair 4gb RAM
- the OS will still be XP SP3 for this one
Additional questions:
1. Having an ATI/AMD chipset, will my GPU cause conflicts/problems/errors with any of them?
2. Choices 1 and 2 only listed Llanos as compatible CPUs. I assume they are backward compatible with my cpu?
Thanks! And please choose among these mobos only.
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