Replacement motherboard and CPU

pmk031 · May 3, 2014

My motherboard died and am looking at replacing it and the CPU. The unit was built in 2010 with DDR2 ram so it will have to be replaced also. What I am looking for is to replace with something to will give comparable performance to what it was originally built to.

The original Motherboard was a
GIGABYTE GA-MA770-DS3 AM2+/AM2 AMD 770 ATX All Solid Capacitor
AMD Motherboard

CPU was a
AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ Windsor 3.0GHz Socket AM2 125W Dual-Core
Processor Model ADX6000CZBOX

Power supply is a
Mushkin 550250 ATX12V / EPS12V 580W Power Supply

Once again I am not really looking for an upgrade, if possiable I would like to keep the CPU and Motherboard under $200 but low as possiable

Thanks in advance
Pk

hans_pcguy · May 3, 2014

You can generally find AMD Socket A2 motherboards pretty inexpensive. I don't know if they still sell them new but you could probably get a New old stock one on eBay. You should be able to get an AM2 board for around $50. But you will probably have to reinstal Windows unless you get one with the same chipset.

junkeymonkey · May 3, 2014

I got a asrock n68c-gs fx board to use up some of my old spare parts and it works fine for what it is don't know if its what you need but the compatablity coverage was a lot and has 2 slots for ddr2 and 2 slots for ddr3 memory to cover a long list of amd cpu's but its not a gaming board seeing that it just got pci-e.1 slot for a vid card . but for an everyday house hold or office use it works just fine and all I needed was the board and a fresh psu to run it

look at the cpu support on this board wow

http://www.asrock.com/mb/NVIDIA/N68C-GS%20FX/

Dark Lord of Tech · May 3, 2014

This combo is great and the board has a 8+2 power phase design.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: AMD FX-6300 3.5GHz 6-Core Processor ($109.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3P ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($84.98 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $194.97
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-03 18:12 EDT-0400)

Vic 40 · May 3, 2014

If you really just want a replacement vould you look at the next,

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

CPU: Intel Pentium G3420 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($69.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock B85 Pro4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($69.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($44.99 @ NCIX US)
Total: $184.97
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-05-03 18:30 EDT-0400)

junkeymonkey · May 3, 2014

sorry dude I now see its gone from the market for $50 and covered all those amd chips old and new I don't get it and it had a 4 egg rating at new egg I got one for what it is and happy with it due to the fact it worked and covered a lot of hardware . I had near the same winsor chip and memory that came off a board that went bad put them in this and fired right up and runs fine. figured that a guy wanting to reuse good parts on the cheap this was the deal.

hans_pcguy · May 3, 2014

I think that Vic has the right idea there. Intel is better. More upgradeable. Better in the long run.

junkeymonkey · May 3, 2014

maybe I just switched to intel for the first time and all seems good infact coming from am3+ I cant say I did wrong

pmk031 · May 4, 2014

Thanks guys, I have been thinking about this, I was going to try and just get this computer running, but after some thought I beleive I am going for a full upgrade. So I am going to check PCPartspicker and see if I can finda a build in my price range. As you can tell I have very little knowedge on PC builds ( parts spec) so I am going the copy cat route and hope it all works out

I have decided to go Intel, just need to figure out now if I5 is the way to go for me, Thanks for your help

Vic 40 · May 4, 2014

If you use your pc only for daily stuff like browsing and such is an i3 or pentium already more than enough or an amd socket fm2 apu=amd cpu with integrated graphics..For intel just go with the latest socket which at the moment is 1150/haswell.

pmk031 · May 4, 2014

Thanks Vic, the original build was for Microsoft Flight Sim X. I do some gaming, and will continue to do so

(60 year old dude who wished he could play titan fall) But really hope I can get flight sim up and running mainly. Thanks for tip on sockets, Had me lost for there for a while.
Again thanks vic
PMK

Vic 40 · May 4, 2014

Which gpu is in your current pc since you can reuse that if it still works?

junkeymonkey · May 4, 2014

not to claim this is the best or the greatest thing but I went budigt build for me and what covered what I wanted in one was asrock extreme6 i5 4670 2x500gb wd harddrives [black] then used my parts from the AM3+ build--- 7850 card my seasonic x850 psu and gskill cl10 1600 2x8gb ram cpu cooler optical drive and all seems well I realy like it compaired to the AM3+ it replaced. so good lock on what you decide

pmk031 · May 4, 2014

Not much will reusable if I am readying every think correctly.
GPU is
EVGA 512-P2-N757-TR GeForce 8600GT 512MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express
x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card (not sure if it will work on new mother board, would lke to use and the upgrade it just to get pc running.

Power supply should be reusuable
mushkin 550250 ATX12V / EPS12V 580W Power Supply

Along with Hard drive
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200AAKS 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s
Hard Drive

Case is good but need to upgrade Operating system as old XP is gone by by as I understand it LOL

junkeymonkey · May 4, 2014

ya... looks like its time for a fresh new more up to date build for you.. good luck

Vic 40 · May 4, 2014

junkeymonkey :

Yes,looks like it.

You could use that 8600GT if you needed to though.

If you need help with a build would it probably better to start a new thread.Tell what you want with the pc and a max. budget would help a lot if you did.

junkeymonkey · May 4, 2014

ya I had a 8800 card it was nice for its time but I don't think it has dx11 support if needed. I'm surprised it still works a lot of them had ''timebomb'' on them..[evga]

pmk031 · May 4, 2014

Thanks to all for the help and advice, first I am gonna count my change, sell my beer cans and scrap copper, stand out at the corner stop light with a sign that says "please help need to build new PC" and then adjust my budget LOL. The first 3 are true, stand at the stop light will not happen

Thanks again guys

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