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Way back about 2001 I built an Athlon XP system with a Shuttle AK31 V 3.1 Motherboard. Well, I retired it a couple of weeks ago. It still ran pretty good. Had a PS blow out, had to add some RAM and HD space but it gave me 10 years of good solid service.
So I had not kept up with all the new stuff so I had to study for days to see what to buy.
I got the Asrock board:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ..._re=am3+_6gb/s_usb_3.0-_-13-157-244-_-Product
I put in a Phenom II X4 955 BE and 8 GB Ripjaws DDR3 (4GBx2) with a Seagate 7200 64 MB/1TB HD. I also put in a Raidmax 530 watt PS.
I am not a gamer at all and this board has HDMI,VGA and DVI output. It has two PCIe x16 slots...well, take a look.
It has the buldozer black socket and wow...This is the reason I didn't buy an X6, I hope to buy a BD and build a X4 with my old chip and recover some of the cost of the X4.
I seen all kinds of post with speculations on the BD and and the black socket boards. So I thought I'd post what I have found with this board. I am no newbie but it seems like it after years of not keeping up. Lost my [H} ID...I guess it got deleted, not sure, so this is a new one.
It is running Mandriva Linux 2010.2 and Win7. Both run very well but the Gb lan was a pain to install in linux. Had to edit the makefile and manually install it.
I have benched it with Hwinfo but most others want to bench the graphics which it is not built to do. It is way up there on FPU and I just ordered the 2nd stick of RAM. If I didn't like it I was gonna sell it as a 4GB machine. So the RAM is not running dual channel yet.
It clocks easily to 4Ghz at 1.4v and they say it'll do it at 1.3. It does have the 8 pin power connector for the CPU. With the stock cooler it runs like 112F which I have read to ditch the fan... Put a better fan on it and the heat sink will do the job pretty well....they say.
All the parts cost $457 including the RAM I ordered yesterday. I put in a Liteon 24x DVD RW too. I just used my old case, but not the PSU.
There is not a lot to read about this board. Newegg only has 6 reviews and I am 2 of them.
The machine runs rock solid except for after some MS updates, I left the room and came back and it was at the Linux logon screen meaning it blue screened in Windows. I don't know why, but it has not done it again. Not a single glitch anywhere.
It installed Win7 and linux without a problem (except Gb lan in linux). I worked it pretty good and it never got over 115F or so with quiet N cool off.
Hope to add a BD CPU and improve it, but I am not goind to wait 10 years again. It was a money, ole lady thing and lets just say I have the XP rig and a new Phemon II rig!
I do hope it lasts, but no one expets 10 years these days.
I bought a Openbox S9 HD FTA satellite receiver (1080i) that will record to external HDD. This is built to edit the recordings, cut commercials and that type of stuff.
So I had not kept up with all the new stuff so I had to study for days to see what to buy.
I got the Asrock board:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ..._re=am3+_6gb/s_usb_3.0-_-13-157-244-_-Product
I put in a Phenom II X4 955 BE and 8 GB Ripjaws DDR3 (4GBx2) with a Seagate 7200 64 MB/1TB HD. I also put in a Raidmax 530 watt PS.
I am not a gamer at all and this board has HDMI,VGA and DVI output. It has two PCIe x16 slots...well, take a look.
It has the buldozer black socket and wow...This is the reason I didn't buy an X6, I hope to buy a BD and build a X4 with my old chip and recover some of the cost of the X4.
I seen all kinds of post with speculations on the BD and and the black socket boards. So I thought I'd post what I have found with this board. I am no newbie but it seems like it after years of not keeping up. Lost my [H} ID...I guess it got deleted, not sure, so this is a new one.
It is running Mandriva Linux 2010.2 and Win7. Both run very well but the Gb lan was a pain to install in linux. Had to edit the makefile and manually install it.
I have benched it with Hwinfo but most others want to bench the graphics which it is not built to do. It is way up there on FPU and I just ordered the 2nd stick of RAM. If I didn't like it I was gonna sell it as a 4GB machine. So the RAM is not running dual channel yet.
It clocks easily to 4Ghz at 1.4v and they say it'll do it at 1.3. It does have the 8 pin power connector for the CPU. With the stock cooler it runs like 112F which I have read to ditch the fan... Put a better fan on it and the heat sink will do the job pretty well....they say.
All the parts cost $457 including the RAM I ordered yesterday. I put in a Liteon 24x DVD RW too. I just used my old case, but not the PSU.
There is not a lot to read about this board. Newegg only has 6 reviews and I am 2 of them.
The machine runs rock solid except for after some MS updates, I left the room and came back and it was at the Linux logon screen meaning it blue screened in Windows. I don't know why, but it has not done it again. Not a single glitch anywhere.
It installed Win7 and linux without a problem (except Gb lan in linux). I worked it pretty good and it never got over 115F or so with quiet N cool off.
Hope to add a BD CPU and improve it, but I am not goind to wait 10 years again. It was a money, ole lady thing and lets just say I have the XP rig and a new Phemon II rig!
I do hope it lasts, but no one expets 10 years these days.
I bought a Openbox S9 HD FTA satellite receiver (1080i) that will record to external HDD. This is built to edit the recordings, cut commercials and that type of stuff.
