Jubilant Lancer
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Backstory of the build:
Okay so my buddy wanted help upgrading his PC. He wanted to get a new graphics card in his prebuild POS. He currently has a HP Pavilion HPE h8-1214 Desktop PC (I will put the specs detailed in the next section if you don't want to skim this link). As you can see it needed a bit more than just a GPU.
I recommended he get a GTX 770 and a new PSU. Now before you say "Hey that's going to bottleneck he is wasting his money, you gave horrible advice!" let me just say he does plan on upgrading further and making his system better, so I recommended a good future proof option that will be good once he upgrades more.
So yesterday we got the parts and started to install them.
Holy shit what a nightmare.
Needless to say I told him he needs to buy a new tower ASAP as to avoid overheating issues.
Well after putting in everything and making it fit (kinda) we could not get the fucker to boot past POST. I did uninstall the drivers beforehand, update the bios, yadayadayada no matter what I got nothing even after hours and hours and hours of trying different methods. So after a good amount of research I found that the GTX 770 (and the whole 7xx family really) just has some incompatibly with HP shitboards. So after some disappointment I told him we could still get an upgrade underway but he would need to spend some more cash and get a new MOBO and in turn a new case due to his being a micro and just shitty in general.
TLDR start here
Where I need advice:
So now to the meat of the matter I need help picking a good MOBO for him that matches his price range of $140.
Here are his specs:
CPU: AMD FX-6100
Memory: 10GB DDR3-1333 (PC3-10600)
GPU: ASUS GeForce GTX770 (Just upgraded to old is Radeon HD 7450)
PSU: Corsair CX600
HDD: 1.5TB (5400rpm)
Optical Drive: SuperMulti DVD Burner
He also has a Multimedia card reader
He already has a case ordered (not great but decent) the APEVIA X-Sniper2.
The ones that I found that best match the price range are:
MSI 990FXA-GD65V2
ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Killer
GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3
ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0
Which one would you guys recommend that he buys for his set-up, and why do you think whatever one you choose would be the best option? Any advice or insight would be much appreciated.
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Backstory of the build:
Okay so my buddy wanted help upgrading his PC. He wanted to get a new graphics card in his prebuild POS. He currently has a HP Pavilion HPE h8-1214 Desktop PC (I will put the specs detailed in the next section if you don't want to skim this link). As you can see it needed a bit more than just a GPU.
I recommended he get a GTX 770 and a new PSU. Now before you say "Hey that's going to bottleneck he is wasting his money, you gave horrible advice!" let me just say he does plan on upgrading further and making his system better, so I recommended a good future proof option that will be good once he upgrades more.
So yesterday we got the parts and started to install them.
Holy shit what a nightmare.
Needless to say I told him he needs to buy a new tower ASAP as to avoid overheating issues.
Well after putting in everything and making it fit (kinda) we could not get the fucker to boot past POST. I did uninstall the drivers beforehand, update the bios, yadayadayada no matter what I got nothing even after hours and hours and hours of trying different methods. So after a good amount of research I found that the GTX 770 (and the whole 7xx family really) just has some incompatibly with HP shitboards. So after some disappointment I told him we could still get an upgrade underway but he would need to spend some more cash and get a new MOBO and in turn a new case due to his being a micro and just shitty in general.
TLDR start here
Where I need advice:
So now to the meat of the matter I need help picking a good MOBO for him that matches his price range of $140.
Here are his specs:
CPU: AMD FX-6100
Memory: 10GB DDR3-1333 (PC3-10600)
GPU: ASUS GeForce GTX770 (Just upgraded to old is Radeon HD 7450)
PSU: Corsair CX600
HDD: 1.5TB (5400rpm)
Optical Drive: SuperMulti DVD Burner
He also has a Multimedia card reader
He already has a case ordered (not great but decent) the APEVIA X-Sniper2.
The ones that I found that best match the price range are:
MSI 990FXA-GD65V2
ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Killer
GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3
ASUS M5A99FX PRO R2.0
Which one would you guys recommend that he buys for his set-up, and why do you think whatever one you choose would be the best option? Any advice or insight would be much appreciated.
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