Gigabyte G33-DS3R about US $ 150, 3 years ago. still working

I recently paid $169 for the asus p7p55d-e pro 1156 motherboard. My very first intel board. I love it! It has everything I need and want on it. Nice layout as well.

My asus m3n-ws Amd board is older and cost me around $180. I'm still using them.

My old asus m2n32 deluxe wireless still works as well!

I'm an asus user.

A long long time ago I did pay $300 for 2 different boards.. One was an soyo dragon deluxe premium something.. It came and weighed like a brick.. and lasted 2 months.. lol 939 amd ..

Then I got an msi platinum 939 and that died after 1 year...

I got the m2n32 deluxe wireless and never looked back.. plus they were cheaper and better quality boards.

I did have some good msi .. but only 2 soyo before they stopped making mb.

My epox were total crap.

almost as bad as that skywalker piece of crap back in 1999..

This last weekend I built a new system using:
- Gigabyte x58A-UD3r from Microcenter for 200, after rebate,
- i7 930 from Microcenter for 199
- 6GB OCZ 1333 Gold from Microcenter for 106 after rebate.

$505 for motherboard, memory and processor at this level is fantastic.

In addition I am using:
- Antec 300 case - 50
- CM 500w PS - 29 after rebate
- Radeon 5670 card for 80 after rebate.


I am not real happy with the video card, but I got what I paid for.

Running the I7 930 at 3.3, it shows a 25.47 on the Fritz benchmark and it goes up to about 65 degrees under stress using the stock cooler.

I was running an i7 870 orginally and it scored a 22.07 on the Fritz OOTB.
The i7 930 scored a 22.47 on Fritz OOTB.

I am very happy with the CPU performance and price.

You can get a great motherboard for around 100$-200$. RAMs are sold separately, a 1GB Stick costs around 15$.
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My current board cost $300 and out-performs my previous $400 board that died in 6 months. I couldn't claim warranty because I had replaced the stock chipset coolers.

Just $50. Bought Biostar G41 DVI to replace my broken Biostar TP35D2A7.

Somebody paid ME £30 to take it off them...thats why i have an ECS G41T-M5.

Nah..i paid £40 for it...i wish i didn't though.