I would but I'm in the USA. So not only would that 150 in your currency be more for me due to conversion rates, shipping would be a bit expensive. Just go to Amazon to see how absurd the prices are sellers are trying to sell the boards for. Even ebay isn't much better although I'm wary buying off ebay so I would prefer to stick with Amazon or Newegg if there were more LGA 1366 boards in stock that were reasonably priced which isn't the case.
Will ~90 USD do it? If you don't find anything I'll help you^^
@Xtreme2damax
Try harder. I punched in US only, $0-100, used, x58 motherboard as search parameters on ebay and got 15 perfect matching results. I have no idea what you're doing wrong since they're so easy to find.
Well yeah there are other results but they aren't related lol. There's only like maybe three or so LGA 1366 boards that are absurdly overpriced with the other results being for newer generation boards such as Sandy/Ivy bridge and Haswell.
Ebay ugh.. I owe them money and hate Paypal. It's ridiculous barely anyone stocks LGA 1366 anymore, even used boards and the few there are left are either absurdly priced or cheap no name crap I wouldn't dare use for an everyday system. Well anyway in at least a couple months I'll have enough to upgrade so I guess I can wait it out providing no one comes after my money.
SSI is after money from 2011 when I briefly worked. The state/county agency providing me housing and mental health services neglected to turn in my pay stubs and now I'm left appealing this mess. This summer I might get a job again but it's a tough situation because I live in a rural area with no transportation so I would have to hike 3 - 5 miles to a job and back everyday until I could afford a license and vehicle.
If it wasn't for all this bullcrap I would have replaced my old hardware and upgraded. Currently I have $533 in saving that I'm letting build up for a few more months but I'll lose over $300 if SSI doesn't rule in my favor.
Xtreme2damax Wrote:Ebay ugh.. I owe them money
Then pay them....
Xtreme2damax Wrote:and hate Paypal.
Why?
Xtreme2damax Wrote:It's ridiculous barely anyone stocks LGA 1366 anymore, even used boards and the few there are left are either absurdly priced or cheap no name crap I wouldn't dare use for an everyday system.
You've actively decided to exclude all the retailers who are selling them though. So your claim that nobody is selling them is flawed. If you don't like ebay then use craigslist.
(03-26-2014, 03:04 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Xtreme2damax Wrote:Ebay ugh.. I owe them money
Then pay them....
It's too late now, the expense was from 2010 and was charged off and the account terminated. With what little income I have it's an unjustified expense when I need the money for more important stuff like paying bills and replacing hardware that keeps failing.
(03-26-2014, 03:04 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Xtreme2damax Wrote:and hate Paypal.
Why?
Well when they hold my bank information hostage due pulling a bait and switch with my funding sources, charging to my bank account with insufficient funds rather than my debit card or Paypal balance that is why. I get hit with not only one RET ACH fee on my bank account due to insufficient funds but a second fee because Paypal doesn't want to let me remove my bank information and insists on automatically retrying the transaction. If the transaction gets declined the first time they should not attempt to retry it again without my consent while holding my information hostage until the second transaction also undoubtedly fails. Besides that their shady practices and horror stories I read makes them someone I don't want to conduct business with. They literally have no direct line to human support and everything is automated making resolving anything beyond the scope of automated support excruciatingly frustrating or impossible. I read stories about funds in Paypal accounts being seized for no reason, ruling in favor of fraudulent buyers who buy items in the described condition then open a dispute, the seller gets boned and is out both the money and their item, sellers that have no recourse if a buyer initiates a chargeback. I could go on but I think I mentioned enough reasons why I prefer to steer clear of Paypal.
(03-26-2014, 03:04 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Xtreme2damax Wrote:It's ridiculous barely anyone stocks LGA 1366 anymore, even used boards and the few there are left are either absurdly priced or cheap no name crap I wouldn't dare use for an everyday system.
You've actively decided to exclude all the retailers who are selling them though. So your claim that nobody is selling them is flawed. If you don't like ebay then use craigslist.
But at least with Amazon and Newegg there is more of a guarantee I'll actually receive the item and in the condition it is listed as. Plus I don't have to deal with someone face to face, can use my preferred payment method and not be out money because someone took it and ran without delivering. There's more risk making purchases on ebay and even more risk doing so via something like Craigslist.
Oh but let me share something funny. This motherboard or something is indeed screwed up in the most unusual and amusing of ways. In my power profile in Windows 7 I have power options set to "balanced" i.e. turn on screen saver after five minutes, turn off display after ten minutes and put the system into sleep mode after thirty minutes. I walked into my kitchen to make myself a bowl of cereal where I watched my system start the screensaver within one to three minutes, screensaver running at warp speed for around a minute before turning off the display.
I knew something wasn't right, the clocks appear to be very screwy and might be causing issues with some applications or in my case adverse performance with TF2, system instability and frequent crashes. On top of that I also have an issue where all usb devices die if I plug in another usb device when they system has been running for a while forcing me to reboot, switch off the psu and sometimes hold down the power button to get my usb devices working again. For right now all I can do to have a stable, decently performing and functional system is replacing this old neglected board with a new board until I can afford new hardware for a semi-upgrade.
Well when the screen saver kicked in when I left to check the mail it was running normal. Maybe the clock messes up on random and causes adverse results.
TF2 seems to be running slightly better now but still runs more crappy than it should. Did some reading and found out it might be a driver issue and the way TF2 is coded that causes poor performance for some folks. Got the new motherboard and everything is running stable, major pita hooking everything up on these tiny micro atx motherboards but I managed to do it. After switching out the board system stability is better and in some cases better performance. Cpu is running at the correct clock and Windows system information is reporting the correct overclock speed. No issue with usb devices dying yet like the old board but I am taking some time to test everything out. This month I might purchase an LGA 1150 motherboard and later purchase a Haswell cpu.
Trying to figure out what voltage to use for this Core2Duo E7500. I currently have it overclocked to 3.66 Ghz but it's running a bit hotter than I'd like it to. Running at stock clock the temperature is 25 Celsius idle and overclocked the temperature is 34 to 35 Celsius.