Wich motherboard is fit for:

Atdendreu · Jan 16, 2017

Yet another question for a noob like me into IT, please help me with good answers:

What i wish from a motherboard to handle are the following:

Core 2 Duo E4600,
8-16 gb DDR3-DDR4,
2 HDD sata 3 and to be able to run fine with nvidia gygabyte gt 730 GDDR5 64 bits.

I have a MS-7387 (P4M900M3-L) motherboard but i am not satisfied with DDR2 rams cuz 4gb ram ddr2=8gbram ddr3 in price and reverse, in quality i think

I have the graphic card already and the E4600, PSU 300w + a sata3 with 300 gb storage and i want to buy another one of 1 tera.
All i need is that motherboard that can use ddr3 and support my other pieces

The Paladin · Jan 16, 2017

well the first thing you will find that the DDR3 boards that handle E and Q series CPUs are going to be limited to 4 or 8gb.

example I found with a quick ebay search a new retail board for a ASRock G41C-GS R2.0 LGA775/ Intel G41/ DDR3&DDR2/ A&V&GbE/ MicroATX Motherboard Model (G41C-GS R2.0)
selling for 89.99$ this will handle what you asked but only 2 DIMMS of DDR3 -1333 Max 8GB

very typical for the kind of board your describing, I personally never have seen a board that does LGA 775 that handles 16GB of ram at all

cilliers · Jan 16, 2017

For that CPU & DDR3 support, you will need a LGA 775 board with DDR3 capabilities. A very popular board for this that I remember was the ASUS P5E3. Good luck finding LGA 775 boards that support DDR3. It might be really cost ineffective.

Math Geek · Jan 16, 2017

here is a list of models partpicker says will support that cpu and ddr3 ram. a few can handle 16gb. https://pcpartpicker.com/products/motherboard/#L=3&sort=d5&page=1

you're gonna have to do some serious looking on ebay or other used sources cause they are likely not available new anywhere anymore. but at least you have some models to look for. there are even some more filters for number of sata ports and so on you can narrow it down some more with.

note: ddr4 will not be available at all for that cpu since it was not added until recently to the newest cpu's and chipsets. ddr3 is the best you can hope for.

Atdendreu · Jan 16, 2017

Thank you all

i think that i should only buy a 2x2gb ddr2 ram and go on with it for now, what i am more interested is if i can somehow manage do run my gt730, if not, i'll look for a motherboard that you all showed me here <3

Math Geek · Jan 16, 2017

the board you have has a single x16 pcie slot. gen 1 more than likely which would be enough for a gt 730 gpu. the cpu will slow it down more than the pcie slot so you should be fine there. but the card is compatible with the mobo. i have an lg 775 mobo with an r9-270 installed and it runs great with the q6600 it is paired with. i'd not worry there.

i found 2 x 2 gb ddr2 ram on ebay pretty cheap last time i looked. maybe $15 if i recall right. but i got 4 x 2 gb for my system for $25 (replaced 4 x 1 gb it had) and not had any issues. you should be able to get 2 x 2 gb pretty cheaply as i did.

your motherboard specs https://us.msi.com/Motherboard/P4M900M3L.html#hero-specification

Atdendreu · Jan 16, 2017

Math Geek :

so the magic trick to make 730 to work on my motherboard would be to set it to pci e from bios?
last time went black and didn't try that

Math Geek · Jan 16, 2017

you will want to uninstall the drivers for whatever video you are using now. reboot to bios, set it to pcie and then shut it down and install the card. hook up your monitor to the card and not the motherboard and then boot it back up. should now be using the card and not onboard anymore.

then once it is running from the card, install the new drivers and you should be set. uninstalling the old drivers first helps keep other issues from popping up during the new driver install.

if for some reason it does not like the card and won't go back to the mobo video, simply reset the cmos and it'll default back to the onboard video so you can try again

Atdendreu · Jan 16, 2017

Math Geek :

Thx, i will try everything you just writed.
Just in case, can you give me a link where to download my old driver?
my current gpu in pc is quadro nvs 290, 256 mb ddr2 (can run cod 4 and 5 and some others

)

Math Geek · Jan 16, 2017

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us&QNF=1 for the old card, select the card and your OS to get the right ones

then http://www.geforce.com/drivers for the new card's drivers. same there. select your card and OS, then download

Atdendreu · Jan 16, 2017

Thx a lot Math, i will save everything in here and ask a friend who does it stuff to proceed with these things on my bios

If i didn't inform in time, i had to buy an i5 earlyer than planned but is still postponned to summer or sometime before 2018

My aim atm is to play most of pc games up to 2014, even at medium settings and most at ultra like fc3, bf3(maybe), witcher 2 and xenoverse, Tera Rising i hope to be playable at ultra

Math Geek · Jan 16, 2017

no problem. come on back if there are any issues. but should not be too difficult to do, especially if your friend is familiar with bios set-ups

Atdendreu · Jan 16, 2017

Math Geek :

With 2x2 GB rams ddr2 and a second hdd 1 Terra, i can get them for 50$ each from some reliable sites where i can pay at delivery

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