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Fried Mobo... need recommendations?

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Weaksauce
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SG05
Dual Core CPU
4gb ram
GTX 460
Silverstone 450w PSU
Zotac H55 WIFI

Im pretty sure I just fried my MOBO from overworking the thing with long gaming sessions (BF2 -__- haha) ... Connected to all ports on GPU and stock video with no signal and no startup on Win 7 ... Switched GPU to older model and still same thing ... Mem sticks and everything work out ok but nothing

So I'm thinking my cooling was horrible considering the GTX 460 probably turns the whole thing to a hot toaster... And I was just going to switch to an H50 or aftermarket CPU cooler...

What would be the best way to cool my unit ...
My options i was thinking was

1) re-buy new H55 mobo and H50/Other CPU cooler
2) New case (Q-08 or something similar) with H55 mobo
3) New mobo (maybe Zotac isnt all that reliable???) and H50 cooler

Thanks guys ...
 
Already bought an H50 with a Scythe fan

Looking into either Lian Li A05NB / Silverstone TJ08-E (i believe out of stock at the moment) and for motherboard maybe the ASRock H55 and Ill just pick up a pci express wifi adapter or something


I just hope my hard drive is still good have been too scared to wanna touch or mess with anything until i get parts to swap over
 
I would go with the TJ08-E, as matter of fact, i just went with it, the case was a little hard as its out of stock in most places, but i found it here, Silverstone Technology TJ08B-E $98.99. Here is a build (not mine) with the H50 on a TJ08B-E.

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I have that case on order now... Its been sold out everywhere Silverstone is getting refills for sometime next week.

Is it possible my Dual Core CPU was running too hot also with the stock cooler...If thats the case I was thinking of going to get a Core i3 or something like that ... feels like im just building myself a new comp haha 0_o ...


Motherboard wise I'm looking at the ASRock H55 or EVGA P55V micro ATX boards ... I need to have a pci slot or pci express slot to run a wifi adapter ... Partly its the reason why I went with the Zotac board, but at 150 its already a bit high for my budget to wanna put into rebuiding with what I have
 
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