Well, Awesome, My motherboard is dying

[Dasfinc]

The long and short of it:

My computer is going on 3 years old now, And I never really planned/thought about upgrading it till June/July...

My co-workers bought me World of Warcraft to play with ALL of them, and sure as shit, I start installing it, and my computer BSOD's (I immediately assumed my computer was just screaming "NOOO DON'T DO IT!")... This is common of memory issues for WoW installs, ran MemTest to find that my memory is running at like 345mhz instead of 667, and bios settings being changed just gave me more loopy results.... Tried different memory, pulled all my stuff, etc, etc, Same problem, so Its safe to say my motherboard is on its merry way out the door *STILL works PERFECTLY right now, but this is not a good omen...*

Here's my board:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135040R

I'm running a AMD Athlon 4...200?+ X2, AM2, I'd like to keep it just to save a bit of coin, and my vid card is a 8600GTS *again, I'd like to keep it for the moment*

I've found a few on newegg that appeal to me, but I guess I'm just kinda open for input, my memory is all DDR2/667/5300, so I'd like to keep a DDR2, AM2, *Prefferably SLI board still as well*

annnnnd GO!

*And a side note, not that it matters since memtest is showing weird results, my computer is a fresh *2 week old* format with Vista 64bit Ultimate.

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[Eagle]

I've been looking at getting an HP referb box and moving over my vid card into it...

Something like this:

HP Pavilion Elite e9110t VHP-64 Core2 QC 2.6GHz 640GB SATA 8GB DDR3 1333 DVDRW(LS) 512MB(vid) NIC


For $464.

 

[Dasfinc]

I'll have to check my Employee cost for one of those new quad core machines... May be cheaper to do that instead of build my own unfortunately :-\

 

[RebelGTP]

check all of your capacitors on the mobo to see if they have popped... if so, good luck on getting a good deal...

 

[bikrboy128]

fix it mr. geek squad