Motherboard for a Intel Core 2 Duo 8400 Wolfdale - Page 3

jackfridman · 07-16-2008, 11:05 AM

There are some decent new mother boards from Intel, MSI, asus and gigabyte which all use DDR2 memory and have an IDE / SATA connection (so you can use your old H.D as a 2nd drive) you can fine some here: http://www.dww.net.au/catalog/id/160...herboards.html or just go to http://dww.net.au

you can alwayes connect your old HD as an external drive (just get a USB case) available at http://www.dww.net.au/catalog/id/130/n/storage.html

**linderman** · 07-16-2008, 03:25 PM

I have used MANY P5K-Deluxe and P5K-E wifi all the asus P35 chipset motherboards are awesome

Doombot · 07-17-2008, 12:13 AM

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Originally Posted by markdude

SO how did your build work out wiht that mobo and CPU ? I plan on doing the same type setup. Are you liking your mobo and CPU choice ? any suggestions about setting it up, BIOS, etc ?

It worked very well.

Sorry about the lack of Thank You's after the completion of my computer. I was in a fairly bad accident. (Broke both arms, two teeth, and various scrapes)

Basically I finished the computer, had my accident and had all my data waiting for 2 months to be transferred and I couldn't play many games. Let me tell you, it's infuriating to have a brand new spanking computer and not be able to play games. But surfing was fast!

Anyway, I'm better now and the computer is awesome. No issues for me besides the installation of the cooling fan/heatsink. The plugs are very hard to put in and I broke two of the plugs even though I thought I was being gentle and slow with the installation. I went to Home Depot, got a few paper washers/plastic washers, some nuts and bolts and the heat sink was installed.

Everything else was very easy. Flashing the hard drive was a snap since it reads off a USB drive. Vista 64 has no issues for me after I set the user permissions to stop asking me if it was ok to start a program. Some programs don't work but the only one that didn't work for me was ZoneAlarm. It's always been my firewall of choice and so I'm just using Windows Firewall for now but I'd rather use ZoneAlarm.

Transferring the data was easier than I thought. I didn't need the kits. I just disconnected the CD rom's wire and plugged it into the old drive. Besides some bad sectors on the original drive, all my data was transferred over to the new one. It reads all 4 gigs of ram and Portal, Half Life 2 and Team Fortress look awesome.

It's a good system and thanks to everyone who helped a first time user create her computer!

Thanks! =)

07-16-2008, 11:05 AM	#41 (permalink)
jackfridman Registered User Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 4 OS: XP SP2	Re: Motherboard for a Intel Core 2 Duo 8400 Wolfdale There are some decent new mother boards from Intel, MSI, asus and gigabyte which all use DDR2 memory and have an IDE / SATA connection (so you can use your old H.D as a 2nd drive) you can fine some here: http://www.dww.net.au/catalog/id/160...herboards.html or just go to http://dww.net.au you can alwayes connect your old HD as an external drive (just get a USB case) available at http://www.dww.net.au/catalog/id/130/n/storage.html

07-16-2008, 03:25 PM	#42 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,441 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Re: Motherboard for a Intel Core 2 Duo 8400 Wolfdale I have used MANY P5K-Deluxe and P5K-E wifi all the asus P35 chipset motherboards are awesome __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial