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Thanks for your reply, however, I bought these boards used with nothing other than the boards themselves.

Hello everyone, I have been scouring the internet trying to fix my screw up. I just bought 2 Asus P8H61-M Rev 1.01 motherboards. They both worked perfectly but do not work with ivy bridge chips, so I thought I needed to update the bios, which I did. But it turns out I updated it to the P861-M 3.0 Motherboard bios. Seems like there should be something in EZ Flash to keep me from doing that but no matter, what's done is done. Anyway I retrieved a copy of the other (not broken) motherboard bios and when I try to downgrade to my old bios version it says "image outdated". So I need to find a way of making it believe its a newer version without being one. I was attempting to do it through DOS but the broken bios won't allow me to boot to anything. So whatever I do has to be done in EZ Flash. So my main question being: is there a way to fool EZ Flash into thinking that I am updating the BIOS while really downgrading it? Thank you in advance

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-ASUS-P8H61-I-LX-RM-SI-LGA1155-DDR3-ITX-Motherboard-3rd-2nd-CPU-J2W3/283702708962?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908131621%26meid%3D7742458ad8aa44d2b8a625a5335c23c7%26pid%3D100678%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D15%26sd%3D283702708962%26itm%3D283702708962%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2380057&_trksid=p2380057.c100678.m3607&_trkparms=pageci%3A0462b2f8-2a87-11ea-b847-74dbd1807ae3|parentrq%3A53af548a16f0aa169c4722efffc3737c|iid%3A1 I found this really sketch board from china for $37, any thoughts?

I thought of that as well, but it seems any board worth its salt is still going for about $45 where I am, and then we would be confined to 2 ram slots. We already have 4 2gb ram sticks that we would like to use if at all possible, and an 8gb (2x4gb) kit is still going for about $40 where I am. but I do appreciate the reply and its probably going to be the route we go if we can't find any other viable alternative.

Hello, I'm trying to put a super cheap build together for my friend. It will be lga 1155 and the cpu we will be using will be a I5 3470, paired with a gtx 950. The problem is the motherboards for lga 1155 are still around $60. I have looked at some people using oem boards from dell or lenovo. Could anyone who knows point me in the right direction for the best cheap motherboard for my purpose. Also requirements from the board include: standard cooler mounts, fit in standard case, use standard atx psu, have a pci x16 slot, and 4 ram slots if possible. thanks in advance

So I remember when the GTX 780 was the big dog gpu, with its massive 3gigs of VRAM and crazy performance. During that time period I was running the beastly (not) HD 5770 1GB and a lga 1156 pentium. I remember being able to play GTA 5 at medium settings at 60-80fps, I could play Mad Max on high and get a solid 60fps. Now it seems in 2019 these cards are really only good for paperweights, a good example is the GTX 570, It has pretty decent performance even by todays standards, about the same as a rx 550 give or take. Or at least it would if it wasn't bottlenecked to heck and back by its measly 1.25gigs of VRAM. Now I have alot of these 1GB cards around, such as a HD 5770, HD 6770, HD 6790, GTX 460, GTX 560TI, GTS 250, and a few others. Is there anything of value I can do with these or just keep them as shelf pieces? My friend is upgrading his gaming setup and he had a HD 6770 but hes "upgrading" to a gt 730, which is a downgrade in every aspect other than memory, its such a shame to see all these great budget cards have no use anymore. Any ideas on what to do with them?

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So I got bored today and had some extra metal flake paint left over from my project car, and I thought what better to use it on than a busted old Sparkle GTX 560TI. So just for kicks I popped the shroud off and got to work, I've included pics of the finished product. I would have done before shots but I didn't realize it would come out this good, It was just more of an experiment to see how car paint looks on a computer part. Here's a youtube link that shows how it looks when you pan across it with a light source https://youtu.be/qWn8FB2i0xM feel free to reply with comments or questions on my methods so you can recreate this, It also looks like this on case exteriors as I painted a Optiplex tower front grille with the same paint and came out great.

Hey guys I got a system with these specs currently CPU: I7-3770 (non K) RAM: 16GB DDR3 1600mhz GPU: RX470 8gb SSD: Kingston SATA 120gb (boot drive) HDD: 500GB seagate X3 (total of 1.5TB, for games and stuffs) PSU: 500 Watt EVGA bronze So I have a few questions, firstly is an older E5-2650V2 Xeon or Ryzen 3 1200 a better budget choice, I know the processors themselves will run about the same, but the 2011 mobo will be about twice as much as the am4 one, but the 2011 supports ddr3 memory so I won't have to buy anymore ram. The E5 has double the cores of the 1200, but is locked where the 1200 isnt. I've heard from sooo many people that "games don't use more than 4 cores" and that may be true for older games, but on newer games from my examinations is simply not the case, my friend has a lga 1366 build with a xeon x5650 and its a 6 core 12 thread cpu, 16gb of ram, and my rx 470 8gb for testing. His machine was pulling a constant 15 more fps in the 2013 tomb raider on all max settings than I was with my I7, even though its a full 1 Ghz faster. So will the extra 4 cores on the E5 beat out the single threaded performance of the 1200, overall which would be better for gaming? I usually stick to racing sims like assetto corsa and PC2, both games run like butter now, so I'm not really upgrading to have better performance in those games, but my pc can't keep up with my friends x5650 1060 3gb machine in any of the newer games like FC5 or SOTTR. I also want to be completely VR ready when I scrape some money together to get a headset, and I know a guy who has a stock fx 6300 paired with his vive and he says for 80% of the time its fine, and my I7 will wreck a 6300 in any task so do I really need to upgrade my cpu for VR or is a 3770 "good enough"? Also my friend with the 1060 3gb offered a trade for my rx 470 8gb cause he wants the extra vram for modded skyrim and such. Is that a good trade or no? On paper its better than mine, but in games like GTA 5 on max it will use a good 4.5Gb of my 8 so how would that fare with a 3 gig card? Anyways thanks in advance, peace.

So I know its receiving power from both the 6 and 8 pin connectors as well as the motherboard slot, if you disconnect either of the two external connectors the card doesn't show video, and if i disconnect both the fan will spin with no video. Is it possible for a alarm to be "stuck on"? and if I were to take it off would it damage anything?

I was planning on trying to disconnect it, but it is soldered to the board.

So i have this HD 6970 that is determined to sound its built in low power alarm at all times, I've tried it on 2 different psus and to different mobo/cpus. Although the card seems to think it has low power for some reason, I am sure it does not. I am running it on a thermaltake 1000 watt gold psu, and a corsair 800 watt silver psu. The card functions normally and will pass benchmarks and play games with no problems. It just continuously emits this obnoxious alarm anytime its powered on. PLZ HELP. can I remove the alarm manually? will it damage the board? thx in advance

Thanks everyone, I'm going for the 580.

Hopefully I don't bottleneck it too bad, I ran my friends 770 with this system and it was godly

Ok, thanks and the CPU im using is a i7 920