Replacing fried motherboard. Need suggestions. Money limited.

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Doing this on my phone, so forgive me.

Replacing 4 year old motherboard after I shorted it during disassembly. Have gone through a couple tutorials and have found the mobo to be the problem.

Mobo: GMP ASUS P6T X58 LGA 1366 MB (that's what it says on case)

Specs:
Proc: Intel core i7 - 920 2.66 ghz LGA1366 boxed

GPU: Radeon Sapphire HD 7970 - 3gb

Ram: Corsair 12gb DDR3 1333mhz

HD: HDO 1TB SATA DRIVE



This computer has worked well for the past 4 years as a gaming computer. I am no expert as some of you may be able to tell from my specs. All I've upgraded before was my video card. I am looking for a new mobo suggestion under 120 dollars as well as any other advice on building the PC properly. Thank you.
 
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The RAM should be compatible* as well as the gfx card, hard drive and optical drive.

This pair of current-gen parts fits in at $275 (with rebate offer): http://pcpartpicker.com/p/13fWe

That CPU is a quad-core, which loses the hyper-threading feature of the i7 (that creates a second "virtual core" for each physical core so that Windows sees eight cores) but will be much faster per core. A current i7 by itself if almost $300.

If you could look at the RAM though, I can double check. They both take DDR3 (that and the current board) but check that the voltage is 1.5V.
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OP here.

I tried to clean the inside of the computer. I disassembled everything and upon reassembly, it wouldn't start. It was that 1/2 second start and fan twitching. I removed the mobo and got it to start outside the case, but in the process of that start up, something sparked and it would no longer start after that.

I went through countless threads and various tutorials, as well as swapped the power supply with my girlfriends old PSU and got the same 1/2 second start up. Through what I read, I concluded the mobo was fried.

And I know the mobo is highly out of date. Is it possible to replace it with a newer upgraded mobo or was your suggestion meant to stay under the price limit I put above? or is that mobo a solid upgrade? my hardware knowledge doesnt go much farther than GPUs
 
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It's not possible to swap in a newer board. This isn't due to price but because newer generation Intel boards aren't compatible with that CPU.
 
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So I don't have many options then. Would replacing the CPU help?

I guess my main priority would just to get the computer up and running again, so that mobo is my best choice then?

 
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Is there anything else on my computer that would be obsolete should I wait and invest in upgrading both cpu and mobo? I have a decent gfx card, and if possible, for 300ish dollars would like to upgrade more. I do occasionally run into games that test my computer more than I would like.

any compatibility issues i need to be concerned about?
 
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The RAM should be compatible* as well as the gfx card, hard drive and optical drive.

This pair of current-gen parts fits in at $275 (with rebate offer): http://pcpartpicker.com/p/13fWe

That CPU is a quad-core, which loses the hyper-threading feature of the i7 (that creates a second "virtual core" for each physical core so that Windows sees eight cores) but will be much faster per core. A current i7 by itself if almost $300.

If you could look at the RAM though, I can double check. They both take DDR3 (that and the current board) but check that the voltage is 1.5V.
 
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Yes, the ram is 1.5v.

Corsair TR4X6G133C9 ---- 1333mhz, 2048mb (x6). I see there are only 4 ram slots. I need 6 for my current ram.

 
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I take it you had 6x2GB sticks of RAM? You can keep 8 of it then.

As to the extra two sticks and the old CPU, sell it on ebay to recoup some money back!

 
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might end up doing that if it wont be a huge performance dip. thank you so much for your help today.
 
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