[ARMIGO]

Hi everyone,

I got myself a system 6months ago. It's running fine. It always did at my thrustworthy Asus P5B. Anyway a friend of mine had a Gigabyte P35 DQ6 with Geil blackdragon PC8500 2x1GB memory from a friend. His board got broken he said. And he lost his coupon so did his guarantee. Well he handed it over for 40quid with the memory included.

So i ran to my place and installed the motherboard on my computer becose Id really wanted to know if it dit worked in my machine after checking if my components coud fit onto it. I turned on my system. And I experienced the same things my friend did.

So what happened. Well when running on his Geil blackdragon memory. I had to set the CAS latency and voltages manually. Which really wasnt a problem. But then my computer doesnt get beyond the loading bar of windows vista.

So I putted in PC5300 not supported memory sticks. Ofcourse with issues since it isnt supported. Just to test out if it worked on some older supported hardware components since I didnt wanted to damage my 8800GTS and all that kind of shit. And i browsed to the gigabyte site and took a look at the ram supporting list. They didnt showed the Geil blackdragon Pc8500 memory. I coudnt find any further tests about people who coud run that memory on it. So I assumed that it was the wrong ram. Later on I seemed to be half mistaken since that was not the only cause. Possibly the non supported geil memory have damaged the motherboard.

So I took the board to a local computer shop. The shop owner and most associates there are real life friends of mine. So they tested out the motherboard. The cause of the problem was? broken capacitors near the 16x pci slot. How? I dont know, probably the cause wasnt the memory since it would be kinda strange if inappropriate memory coud litteraly brake a capacitor. Quite strange that that would cause it in any second place since the motherboard has the Ultra durable function. But the shop associate was straight to the point and was quite sure that the broken capacitors were the cause of the memory issues.

So I assembled my old config with The Asus P5B back into my system. The problem is. I bought the geil blackdragon PC8500 from my friend becose I wanted to run such high end memory. But since the P35 Doesnt even support the memory and since I only got a Asus P5B Id like to have a new motherboard which does support it and all my other components.

Here is some enumeration on what's going on here.

1:I have a Broken motherboard. Which I already throwed trough the valve of the garbidge can. Tested by a computer shop associate. Hes quite an expert so hes sure about what he says.

2:I have Geil blackdragon 2x1GB PC8500 memory left which I bought from my friend. And I cant put it on one of my available motherboards I have stored at my place. So I need a new one.

The motherboard Must also support the following components.

Powersupply:Antec NeoHE 550Wattage
CPU:Intel core 2 duo E6600
GPU:Nvidia Geforce XFX 8800GTS (The 640MB version)
HDD'S:2x1GB Geil blackdragon 2x1GB PC8500 (Running on 1066MHZ)
2x250GB + 1x500GB WD Caviar RE/SE Harddisk with 16MB Cache.
Drive:LG Multireader Double layer burner (WHITE)
Soundcard:Soundblaster X FI Xtreme Gamer.

The motherboard needs to support all the components I listed. I've not found a board yet. Currently Im just running everything on my P5B right now with apacer Apacer PC6400 memory. My budget? around 100quid. Id prefer to buy anything for less. I would also like a board who makes it possible to overclock my E6600 to 3,66ghz which is the speed its running on right now.

Thank's already, See YA!

[mcbee]

Take a look at the Asus P5K boards.

[ARMIGO]

ah I know that board. Didnt knew all features of it. So It should run with all my components. If yes, im sure it would be that one. But if you might have a better alternative you can ofcourse still post it.