ManofGod
[H]F Junkie
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Well, I see an original poster dropped off the planet, again.
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Well, I see an original poster dropped off the planet, again.
Principally it just rubs me the wrong way that i'd have to go to such lengths to get this machine working again under one of it's only two officially supported Operating Systems. (it shows right in the bios and on the freaking box that it supports Win7/Win8.) I already had all of the latest drivers installed from Gigabyte and just feel that it shouldn't be as big of a hassle to simple install Windows as it is.
I've decided to just sell this computer. I ended up cobbling together a full sized Athlon II X4 based system to use while I was working on this Gigabyte computer and I might as well just continue to use it. I ordered some Startech rubber feet for this big thing so i'm just going to put feet on it and lie it on it's side under a table to where I won't be able to see it. I'm sure it probably uses 3-4 times the electricity, but screw it, it's user friendly to me. Thanks again so much for the great help you guys have offered here.
Hell, I'll buy it from you if the price is right. I have a thing for attempting to fix unfixable shit.
On the one hand, that is unfortunate as I was really very curious if the integrated installer would get it done. On the other hand, you can almost certainly put a stronger CPU in that Athlon II system for next to no money. You should be able to use any Phenom II chip except * maybe * the 6-core Thuban ones as a straight-up chip swap. Phenom II may have been slower than Intel's Core 2, but it was still in the same ballpark.
What mainboard are you using, and what firmware revision is it at? I have a LOT of experience with AMD systems and might be able to point out where you can improve it easily and cheaply.
mvmiller12 My newly constructed HTPC is using an Asus M5 A97 AM3+ board with an Athlon x4 610e CPU & 16GB of Single channel DDR3. It's got 6 great sata3 ports, unlike my main PC and the one it replaced so i've taken advantage of that and loaded it up with a bunch of hard drives for media. I originally bought this board back in I think 2013 or 2014 just in case my cheapy Biostar board I was using at the time ever failed, and it eventually did so i'm happy I had this spare available to save me from the hell of working on this micro Gigabyte computer. At this point it probably isn't worth pouring any more money into the machine. I've got a personal machine and a guest PC that are both faster than this thing is ever going to be, so if I ever needed at some point to do some serious gaming, i'd use one of my more powerful Sandy Bridge machines. One thing I would like to add to it eventually, is a videocard that can decode H.265 video in hardware because the CPU isn't powerful enough to play the brand new 4k remaster of Start Wars, but the only cards that can do that now seem a bit outside of my price range. I actually stupidly bought a Nvidia 1030GT videocard for it, foolishly assuming that it could decode H.265, but it can't so i've been waiting for another newer card to eventually be released that can do it that's not a super expensive gaming card.
I have the EVO version of that board in my media center PC running an FX-8350. That board will easily take a either a Phenom II x6 chip or the FX-8350. The reason you would consider this is if you're using Plex. The FX-8350 may be a lackluster CPU in a lot of ways, but it actually makes for a pretty potent Plex server. Plex actually plays to the chip's strengths. The Phenom II x6 is also good at this, but the FX is actually better at it (and can generally be found for cheaper, believe it or not - AMD sold a ton of FX-8350's and not all that many Phenom II x6's, it seems).
Not yet. Haven't had much time to work on it.ryan_975 did you fix this yet? We must know what fixed it.
Not yet. Haven't had much time to work on it.