I need to get a new mobo

[toonarific]

It appears my current mobo has crapped the bed. I have

en.kioskea.net/guide/1014808-asus-m2n-mx-se-plus

in my system, and recently it has started to act up. I have checked my hard drives, cables and everything else, and even sent it to a repair shop for them to check it out. They also said it was the mobo. Ive tried reinstalling Windows to see if that was why it was running so poorly lately, but when it gets to the "loading windows" of the install, I get the blue screen of death. It wont go past it and crashes every time. The power supply is brand new, as is the RAM. What would be a good mobo to get, thats about the same dimensions as my current one, with preferably 2 IDE slots besides all the SATA slots? My budget is around $200 for a mobo/ processor combo. Thx in advance.

 

[red1776]

This is a a micro ATX MB as well I dont know if your case requires one or not, if you can use a an ATX form factor, you have a few (not many) but a few more option.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130237
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103921

or

AMD Athlon II X3 455 Rana 3.3GHz http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103911 ( if bios rev is not out for the 840)

 

[toonarific]

There is plenty of room for a longer board, actually. The mobo I have is just what I had gotten when I first built the box, but it obviously isnt enough anymore. I could get a larger board and better processor to boost the system

 

[Greg S]

I have to agree with red on the processor. You can't really beat the price for the performance. As for the motherboard, the the msi one is pretty nice. I would also recommend the board below. It allows up to 16gb of RAM instead of 8gb. The RAM is also ddr3 instead of ddr2. Although the board I found doesn't have sata III (6gb/s) and it has less usb ports. It is about $15 cheaper than the msi board.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131669

 

[spiderman1957]

mobo

I'm a newbie I know but this motherboard is great under $200.00 ad is future proof for a while.

 

[toonarific]

so its better to still stick with the micro boards and not something standard size?

 

[Greg S]

Size doesn't determine the speed and quality. Smaller boards will often leave more room for air flow in the case, but if you have all your pci slots populated the graphics cards or other cards may be more likely to reach higher temperatures, but it all depends on your case and how much stuff you cram into it. If you are planning on using SLI or crossfire you almost definitely need a standard ATX board. Also consider how many DIMM slots there are. If you need 2, 4, or 6, this also can determine what type of board you will get. Many micro atx boards have only 2 DIMM slots, while pretty much every standard ATX board has 4 or more DIMM slots.

 

[spiderman1957]

mobo mobo

M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 Socket AM3 ATX Motherboard, AMD 890GX Chipset, Supports AMD AM3 Processors, Dual DDR3 2000(O.C.), ATI CrossFireX, SATA 6.0Gb/s RAID, Radeon HD4290 GPU, IEEE 1394

When I was putting mine together just few weeks ago I found a lot of good reviews on this board worth checking out. :wave:

 

[AshleyTechGuy]

Does it have to be AMD?

 

[AshleyTechGuy]

Motherboard
BIOSTAR TA870U3+
Cpu
AMD Phenom X4 640

the Motherboard is very good it has all the new Features like Sata 6 and dual Pci express Usb 3 good old fastioned PS/2 and upto 16gb of ram (ddr3)

 

[IPJKL4]

I'm a newbie I know but this motherboard is great under $200.00 ad is future proof for a while.

not mentioned the name of the board...

 

[syntaxbreaker]

I'm a newbie I know but this motherboard is great under $200.00 ad is future proof for a while.

Sir, what board is that?

 

[spiderman1957]

Mobo

It is listed in my comment and on my system specs
Hope that helps