Personal computing discussed
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The Swamp wrote:Brew! How's it going?
The Swamp wrote:It seems like the 750i chipset is one hot mess. From what I have been able to gather, the culprit in my situation might be the south bridge. People who have been able to successfully do what I'm trying to do have reported that speeds are not much better even with a SATA card. For some reason, the 750 doesn't like SSDs. I don't think there is a workaround. The fact that Nvidia got out of the chipset business tells me they just wanted to wash their hands of the entire thing.
The Swamp wrote:I think my only two options at this point are to find a replacement LGA 775 motherboard that doesn't have an Nvidoa chipset,
The Swamp wrote:or (more sensible) to make the jump to a more modern architecture. All I would need would be a new motherboard, new memory sticks, new CPU, and cooler. I have everything else. As long as it has at least one PCI slot (audio card), I'm golden.
If you were in my shoes, how would you proceed?
The Swamp wrote:Lol, that doa was a typo. I didn't catch it when I was typing. But, it checks out, I have to admit.
Not that I want to disparage the board too much. It's lasted a really long time. But, as you guys pointed out, Core2 is obsolete for most anything but the very basics. I don't do much gaming, although I love Homeworld Remastered and Complex. Both get bogged down pretty fast, even with a new AMD Polaris GPU.
I like the parts list. I trust the i3 is a lot faster than the Q8300?
ETA: That board is perfect. That's exactly what I would be looking for. We must have done a Vulcan mind meld.
The Swamp wrote:I didn't realize DDR4 comes in so many flavors. It goes all the way to 4600. Why is there such a huge difference from top to bottom?
The Swamp wrote:Until Raven Ridge APUs (Ryzen 5 2500G and Ryzen 3 2200G) show up in stores next month, the currently-available AMD Ryzen CPUs have no integrated video. You'll need a graphics card.Any caveats about AMD?
The Swamp wrote:I know AMD had allowed their tech to get pretty stale. They were still using DDR-3 long after Intel had moved on to DDR-4. I checked prices on NewEgg on the AM3 hardware, but it's not exactly priced to move. Not that I would want to buy into AM3 given it's age, unless it was a complete steal. I read a review of an MSI board for Ryzen that got mixed reviews. Seems the platform has/had some pretty big bugs, especially with BIOS issues.