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Adjudicator on 15 April 2010
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Adjudicator said:
Garcian Smith said:
Adjudicator said:

In the OP the hobo box has a motherboard that is only limited to 4GB of RAM. I was thinking of getting one with a bit more expandability such as
MSI 770-C45

MSI AM3 NF750-G55

Biostar A770E3

These can all go up to 16GB and the Biostar is only about $6 more. Should I stay away from these brands or what ? Thanks

 

Edit: Also your opinion on the Antec 300 case.

Sorry if any of this was answered already, please note that I am unable to shop at newegg because of where I live ( I recognize it as the standard here for pricing) amazon or ebay is where I am limited to.

MSI is an excellent mobo manufacturer, right up there with ASUS. Biostar a bit less so, but you should be fine with that one too.

As for the Antec 300, I've heard it called the, "Centurion 5 for people who don't know better." It's basically the same price as the Centurion, except with no reset button or toolless mounts or room for 3.5" floppy drives or card readers and less room and manual-control fans that can't attach to your mobo's fan controller. So basically if all you have to spend is $50ish then either get a Centurion 5 or pay a bit extra for a Mini P180.

Thanks for the reply but unfortunately it came a bit too late. I ended up going with the centurion 5, which is cool. However due to supply and shipping constraints I ended up going with a Biostar TA785G3HD, for about $75.

I figured i'd use the onbard video for testing purposes until ny next bit of cash is freed up to by a good videocard. Acceptable as there aren't any games I really want right now.

Thanks again

So I finally got the chance to put my Hobo box together and I have a couple questions.

The motherboard only sees 1796 GB of RAM even though AMD Overdrive software recognizes that there are 2 1024 GB sticks. Also the speed is really slow like 500 - 600Mhz, is this normal?

And lastly the Bioware configurator that comes with Mass Effect 2 says that I only have one core in my processor, Athlon X2 240.

 

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks