Author Topic: A new mobo (Read 281 times)

RTSigma · « **on:** January 24, 2006, 02:38:21 AM »

My mobo took to the ghost yesterday (just when I was working on one of my two papers that were due) and I have some questions:

1.) Will I lose anything on the hard drive? The technician said to have a copy of Windows XP ready and I'm fearing that it means that the HD will be empty or something. If this is true, is it only for when the new mobo is hooked up, and can I just slave the HD to a friend's computer and backup from there?

2.) The mobo is 4 years old. I'm not sure what the full specs of it were, but is it possible that an old mobo will slow down games? If this is true, will a new same-brand mobo improve performance or remain the same?

3.) A side question: After the mobo replacement, the computer might be replaced. What is a great gaming computer I can make using these parts that I will be taking out of the old computer: 1 gig of RAM, a 128mb 6600 GT and 40gig HD. The processor is a 2.0ghz and is obviously a bottleneck. What do you guys recommend from there?

WindX · « **Reply #1 on:** January 24, 2006, 03:14:17 AM »

If it was the mobo you can save your info on hdd if you replace motherboard with same make and model OR if you buy another hdd to go along with the new motherboard and use it as a slave and boot off of and install the OS on the new one. The reason being is that the OS installs certain native drivers for the hardware that is on the motherboard when you install it for the first time. If you use a different motherboard there may be a hardware conflict due to windows native drivers sensing a new type of hardware. As we all know driver conflicts can be a pain in the arse. If you want to go to the trouble of slaving your hdd into a friends machine you can do that as well. Just make sure to set the jumpers on your hdd to slave and the jumper on his hdd to master before putting it in his machine. Also make sure to put the master drive on the end of the IDE cable. As far as processors go... If you buy a newer motherboard youll probably have to get a new processor and fan/heatsink combo to go with it. Also make sure what type of vga socket your using. If you run AGP vga youll need to get a motherboard with agp and same for pcie if thats what your running. As far as gaming performance goes... If you replace your mobo with exact same unit youll have same performance. Also if you buy new motherboard you may have to buy new ram as well. Your old board may take pc100 pc133 and these arent compatable with the new ddr or ddr2 ram mobo's.

I am currently running a P-4 3.2 extreme edition on Abit Ag8 third eye motherboard. Its a great setup and I get arround 120 fps with my ATI X800 pcie video graphics card. I am getting ready to build a new system which will have the new Asus AN8 SLI premium motherboard. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131540 I have a friend who has one and it is a beast! I also like the new AMD processors as they tend to run a bit cooler than the P-4's not to mention they are 64bit. Hope this helps you!!!! Feel free to pm me with any questions you might have and I'll be glad to do my best to answer them.

JTs · « **Reply #2 on:** January 25, 2006, 05:39:18 PM »

Windx check this board better video. 2 full 16

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131568

WindX · « **Reply #3 on:** January 25, 2006, 10:57:17 PM »

Thats a great board and I have already built a system using it and it didnt have that much more frame rate over the other board (maybe 8fps) with same video card and ram etc. Plus its almost about 80 bucks more. Can buy an extra sata hdd with the money saved or put it towards more ram. just my thoughts. But it is a great board none the less!