Tom's Hardware > Forum > Motherboards & Memory > General Motherboard > [Solved] What mobo would you recommend for a AMD Athlon II X2 240 Regor cpu

[Solved] What mobo would you recommend for a AMD Athlon II X2 240 Regor cpu

Forum Motherboards & Memory : General Motherboard - [Solved] What mobo would you recommend for a AMD Athlon II X2 240 Regor cpu

Tom's Hardware: Over 1.4 million members in 6 different countries available to answer all your high-tech questions. Sign up now! Its free!
Ask the community Add a reply

Best answer from scarhart.

Word :    Username :           
 
mikekazik1   09-28-2009 at 02:44:21 AM

I'm going to build my first desktop using this processor:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819103688

It's an AMD Athlon II X2 240 Regor 2.8ghz. I want a reliable mobo for this processor. It would be nice to have either onboard audio or a PCI slot so that I could reuse an old sound card from my P4 desktop. With respect to graphics, it would be nice if it was onboard (or if it had an AGP slot, so that I could reuse the graphics card from my P4). I want to be able to put at least 2gb of ram (preferably more) onto this mobo. What do you guys recommend?

Add a reply
Best answer from scarhart
I'm having good luck with the Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H and the same chip you want to use. It has onboard audio (Realtek ALC889A codec supporting up to 7.1 channel surround sound), onboard video (ATI Radeon HD4200) integrated in the NorthBridge (AMD785G) with HDMI, DVI-D and D-Sub outputs, 1 PCI-e x16 slot, 1 PCI-e x 1 slot, and 2 PCI slots, onboard networking, more USB2.0 ports than you could probably ever use, 4 DDR2 memory slots w/ dual channel support and memory overclocking up to 1200 MHz, and can be used for any AMD CPU up to and including the Phenom II.

If you have used MLB.TV premium, this setup will deliver a picture at the highest picture quality setting without freezing. If you haven't, this takes a LOT of graphics and CPU horsepower. I got mine in a bundle with the same processor for $135 from Tiger Direct, but I'm sure you can find it from quite a few sources. MB alone was $80.
Sponsored Links
Register or log in to remove.
digiex   09-28-2009 at 12:55:29 PM

Any AM3 motherboard with 785 AMD chipset. Check out the reviews. Nvidia just recycled its 6100 chipset for the AM3 platform.

Reply to digiex
Daggs   09-28-2009 at 01:35:46 PM

for your own shake, stay away from nvidia chipsets.

Reply to Daggs
mikekazik1   10-08-2009 at 02:26:02 AM

But what's the cheapest one that functions reliably? Keep in mind, this will be for my first build. I don't want something ultra complicated.

Reply to mikekazik1
Daggs   10-08-2009 at 07:41:50 AM

how can that be a ultra complicated?

Reply to Daggs
scarhart   10-22-2009 at 06:48:33 PM
Best answer

I'm having good luck with the Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H and the same chip you want to use. It has onboard audio (Realtek ALC889A codec supporting up to 7.1 channel surround sound), onboard video (ATI Radeon HD4200) integrated in the NorthBridge (AMD785G) with HDMI, DVI-D and D-Sub outputs, 1 PCI-e x16 slot, 1 PCI-e x 1 slot, and 2 PCI slots, onboard networking, more USB2.0 ports than you could probably ever use, 4 DDR2 memory slots w/ dual channel support and memory overclocking up to 1200 MHz, and can be used for any AMD CPU up to and including the Phenom II.

If you have used MLB.TV premium, this setup will deliver a picture at the highest picture quality setting without freezing. If you haven't, this takes a LOT of graphics and CPU horsepower. I got mine in a bundle with the same processor for $135 from Tiger Direct, but I'm sure you can find it from quite a few sources. MB alone was $80.

Reply to scarhart
Ask the community Add a reply
Tom's Hardware > Forum > Motherboards & Memory > General Motherboard > [Solved] What mobo would you recommend for a AMD Athlon II X2 240 Regor cpu
Go to:

There are 531 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here.

Forum map
Bestofmedia Forum ©
2000-2009 Bestofmedia Group
Page generated in 0.457 seconds
Sponsored links
  • Ask the community now
  • Publish
Ad
Related Topics
See all relatives topics
They won a badge
Join us in greeting them