What do you want it to do? I recently bought an Nvidia 8100 chipset mobo
from Asrock, Athlon II X2 240 and Nvidia 9600 GSO for a dirt cheap price
and some RAM from Ebay. Super inexpensive upgrade to the socket 939 unit
it replaced and a fast machine for a dual core with the 3.36 GHz
overclock it's running at.
Had some problems with the board not POST'ing reliably until realizing
that my Corsair RAM rated at 1.8v would not run reliably at that setting
(2 separate sets of Corsair). The EPP SPD was defaulting at 1.8 during
the initial boot after being built and I had to reset the CMOS to get it
started up which caused me to believe the board was defective. A simple
BIOS error on the part of Asrock engineers but simple to fix now that I
know the cause. I've had 3 of these boards now which makes me feel like
an idiot but the box was dirt cheap to build and quite competent, stable
and energy efficient. Just set the RAM at1.9v and everything is peachy.
Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
What's the best "bang for buck" base system right now? Not looking
for top of the line, just reasonable power per $$.
