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PostPosted: Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:42 am 
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Greetings:

Perhaps I need a recommendation for a new motherboard. I have been using a Dragon 1+ system. I just upgraded the system to LINHES 6. 03, and was playing around with vimeo streams, when all of a sudden it looked like a quick forced shut down happened. The power supply seems okay, that is, it has plus and -12 Volts, three and 5 V too. I removed all the PCI cards the CPU and RAM, essentially everything, and the case switch, which works, still cannot power up the motherboard. The fact that it appeared like a forced shutdown makes me wonder if something failed or overheated.

Anyway, can anyone recommend a replacement motherboard for the ATX k8n ne04 MSI motherboard? The current board is four years old, and could use more power for flash videos.

Well thanks a lot for your suggestions.


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PostPosted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 4:26 pm 
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I too am searching for a new ats mobo.

I'm using a decent ECS mobo but I want to upgrade to a gpu with vdpau capabilities. Unfortunately I only have AGP and I'd pay about $70 for a card with this ability.

I'd rather pay $200 for a combo deal with onboard nvidia and have more fun.


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:15 am 
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In January I put together a dual core system and it has worked well. Details are documented here:

http://knoppmyth.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=20686

Version 6.02 has the video drivers for this motherboard.

I would go with a Tier 1 Mobo.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 2:30 am 
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I went with:

Intel i3-530

GIGABYTE GA-H55M-USB3 LGA 1156 Intel H55 HDMI USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

The i3-530 has on chip intel hd graphics, so I will be able to get rid of the Nvidia 6200 card. Silent pc review measured 25-30 watts dc (from the psu) at idle for the board and cpu.

So far I like it. It has enough power to be recording a show, flagging commercials, updating the data base, and playing back Hulu Desktop perfectly. Hulu Destop takes about 140% cpu right there, its a hog. My old system would stutter, freeze, etc. It didn't have enough power to even flag commercials, and watch HD.

I just used the same disk, and to get it to boot used the fallback system. I will switch over to Intel HD graphics and loose the 6200, as the cpu graphics takes less power.


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PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:11 am 
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@luxluthor

Please consider posting your experience (the how and why of the decision) in either Tier 1 or Tier 2 Hardware Recommendations:

http://knoppmyth.net/phpBB2/index.php?c=5

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 4:18 pm 
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luxluthor wrote:
I just used the same disk, and to get it to boot used the fallback system.
Could you explain what the fallback system is?
Thanks.


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I'm very happy with my system. Specs and review at that link to the Tier 1 forum.

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:17 pm 
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"the fallback system"

For booting up, there seem to be 2 profiles; I guess one is optimized for specific hardware, the other is more universal.

One worked, one didn't when I changed hardware.


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