Asus Z170-P D3 Testing

[George_Bud]

So I have this motherboard but I dont have a cpu for it, only ram. It therea way to see if the board is good with only ram ? I dont want to buy a cpu just to test it. I got the board from someone online for a few "lei" ( money ). Or any opinion on the board ? It is good, bad, let me know.

[themctipers]

plug in power supply, short the power jumpers, plug in some things.

 

eg, if you have RGB ram see if it lights up

if you have a fan, plug it in

 

leave it on for a while and see if the northbridge heats up a bit

 

[W-L]

1 minute ago, George_Bud said:

So I have this motherboard but I dont have a cpu for it, only ram. It therea way to see if the board is good with only ram ? I dont want to buy a cpu just to test it. I got the board from someone online for a few "lei" ( money ). Or any opinion on the board ? It is good, bad, let me know.

There isn't a way to test it you need the minimum, CPU, motherboard, RAM and PSU to test/post the board. 

[George_Bud]

11 minutes ago, W-L said:

There isn't a way to test it you need the minimum, CPU, motherboard, RAM and PSU to test/post the board. 

Mobo, ram, psu. But no cpu.I would buy a celeron just for testing but I probably would get stuck with that celeron because no one would buy it.

[George_Bud]

16 minutes ago, themctipers said:

plug in power supply, short the power jumpers, plug in some things.

 

eg, if you have RGB ram see if it lights up

if you have a fan, plug it in

 

leave it on for a while and see if the northbridge heats up a bit

 

northbridge ? Where is that located ? And whay will this test reveal ? edit : about the mobo.

[W-L]

1 minute ago, George_Bud said:

Mobo, ram, psu. But no cpu.I would buy a celeron just for testing but I probably would get stuck with that celeron because no one would buy it.

See if anyone is willing to lend a CPU that is probably the best solution if they are willing to help. 

[George_Bud]

1 minute ago, W-L said:

See if anyone is willing to lend a CPU that is probably the best solution if they are willing to help. 

Can you give me one ?

[themctipers]

2 minutes ago, George_Bud said:

northbridge ? Where is that located ? And whay will this test reveal ? edit : about the mobo.

this test will reveal that the motherboard will work

 

its under the big heatsink near the bottom right corner (well on most of the motherboards ive seen)

[George_Bud]

1 minute ago, themctipers said:

this test will reveal that the motherboard will work

 

its under the big heatsink near the bottom right corner (well on most of the motherboards ive seen)

Ohh...So that chip unde the heatsink is the northbridge ? I did not know what was that.

[themctipers]

1 minute ago, George_Bud said:

Ohh...So that chip unde the heatsink is the northbridge ? I did not know what was that.

 cpu connects to:

northbridge

ram

GPU

 

northbridge connects to:

ethernet

wifi

sata

ide

fan stuff

vrms

monitoring

addon PCI/PCIE cards

m.2

PCIe ssd

usb

 

etc etc

[W-L]

6 minutes ago, George_Bud said:

Can you give me one ?

No spares on hand, as said you can do a basic power test without the CPU but not a lot more to see if it is actually see if it's a fully functional board. Maybe check local electronics stores to see if they have some they are willing to lend or just tossing out in their e-waste. 

[George_Bud]

4 minutes ago, W-L said:

No spares on hand, as said you can do a basic power test without the CPU but not a lot more to see if it is actually see if it's a fully functional board. Maybe check local electronics stores to see if they have some they are willing to lend or just tossing out in their e-waste. 

My country is not that rich to just "tossing out" expensive celerons. :)))