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Animal901

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  1. A radeon hd 8490 or quadro 600 can play those games. not fancy just budget stuff. avoid a geforce gt 610 at all cost.
  2. Just try to learn from it. Aisle9 had some good advice up there. if you want power on a budget you could try out an older xeon, but the boards aren't the easiest to work with sometimes. you're going to have to decide a platform and stick with it on product purchases for a bit. sell anything that is too old or not compatible with what you mostly have now. My son plays minecraft on an old circa 2005 athlon xp 64 x2 5600+ msi board with IDE and SATA. bios updated to 2009. has a IDE optical plextor dvd burner lol..... amd firepro v5900 4gb of ram right now want to upgrade to 8gb. windows 10 home on a adata su650120gb. I might put an Opteron 1218he in it cause the thread speed is faster even though it clocks slower. Do not build something this old it is not fast enough for todays games. great desktop though. make a list of what you have. What games are you trying to play?
  3. This is good stuff to learn on. lol not ancient. I still have my kid computer. Asus A7V8X with an athlon xp 2400+ plus overclocked at 2.2ghz with 3 gigs of ddr ram, and an ati 9550. cause my ati 9800pro broke a few years ago. It runs windows 2000 sp4 beautifully on a hitachi IDE 250gb HD and it still surfs the web on an older firefox install. plays half-life and Morrowind.... lol... right now typing im using an I3 4130 on a biostar tb85 with 8gb corsair ddr3, amd firepro v5900, adata 120gb su650 ssd on windows 10 pro. its not the best bench but it does cinebench alright. userbenchmarks pretty good. Im not gona act like the gpu is amazing but it is a workstation card. . i will update the cpu when the price is right. just like all the other parts. make sure you move the clear cmos jumper with the battery out. leave the clear for at least 3 seconds move the jumper back. this is your last hope. other than that. save the parts throw the board away. focus on working reliable systems before you worry on being up to date. Some science stills happens on Windows 98 Second Edition.
  4. well, give it a go. try a different cpu, ram stick, and power supply if you can.
  5. the only last ditch effort would be to pull everything from the board leave the clear cmos jumper on with the battery out and put it away for a bit. come back to it later, and pray. It sounds dead. I'd hate to advise you to chunk it. it sounds the changes made were beyond what the board could handle. Is there a light on the board that tells you if you have power?
  6. straight out the box the I7 6700 should work without the bios update. you have the bios update that lets you use the I3 7th gen. at this point all i can think is the cpu could be unstable. I have an junk athlon 64 x2 5200 that does the same thing. try putting the i7 back in and lower the clock speed. try optimized defaults or whatever you can find like that in your bios. try pulling the battery for a bit. maybe it wasn't seated quite right... whats the chance its shutting down from a spike in temp?
  7. Is there a way to clear cmos? Have you pulled the battery just for fun?
  8. darn.... you sound close... look at the I7 contacts. what can you say about your bios? never used this board but it looks nice. Gigabyte the site is quick to say update your bios for 7th generation but it looks like your I3 is a 7th. can you confirm the I7 will work in another board?
  9. Did you try booting a second time? Windows doesn't acknowledge the processor change until you've successfully booted to the desktop twice.
  10. I have a pegatron m2n68-la motherboard that i cannibalized out of a old compaq I found. I have a variety of am2 cpus that will go in it. right now it has a Opteron 1218he. might put a phenom or phenom II in it based on what the board will give me. I don't really need to, but i was curious if it is possible to flash the bios at all. (splash screen is hideous. stickman doing hand plant. the only way to disable the splash screen is a quick boot. I like to see options) I've tried the hp site, and they have basically shunned the compaq 5300f off. (like they should) I installed the useless hp assistant app with no help. Should I figure out what other hp computers have this motherboard to find a bios? I'm doing a junk build into an Antec case to make an audio workstation. thermaltake psu, 8gb ram, adata 120gb ssd 320gb WD blue. gona say screw it and throw a radeon hd 8490 gpu with DP. (may upgrade later based on supply/demand.) not really intended for games. Just work. also there's a Windows 10 home key for this bord. I use alot of externals with adobe audition 1.5 so having amazing storage inside the case just bogs you down over time. Any help is highly appreciated. This is my first post here. I did try searching first. Thank you..........
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