New Motherboard required

Hi all,
I am looking for a mobo & DDR3 ram 4GB for my PIIx4 955 cause for some reason my older mobo ASUS M3A78-EM ' PCIx16 slot is not working after a BIOS update :cry:

. See my older thread .

Features required on mobo :
1. onboard graphics
2.1 PCIx16 (Gen.2 will suffice) slot

Budget : 6k

i am looking into Biostar A880GZ Motherboard

& corsair value ram

if any body has a better suggestion by increasing the budget please do suggest .

get Asus M5A88-M EVO @ 6.8k on delta peripherals.

@topgear that mobo now is more than 7k

is the biostar board not good?

How is ASUS M5A88-M
@ Rs. 5457

Biostar mobos are good but the mobo you have selected don't has support for BD cpus.

for the price Asus M5A88-Mis aso very good - supports all of the AMD's latest cpus including yours.

BTW, if you don't need onboard gfx then you can get a more Oc friendly mobo under 7k.

i would have gone for a 990 based mobo but they dont have onboard gpu

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why do you require onboard gfx in the first place - if it's for safety ( backup gpu solution ) reason then at 9k you can get a good OC friendly mobo + a backup gpu.

For the mobo consider getting Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 @ 6.6k

ya it's for backup gpu solution.

^^ which gfx card do you have ?? and your maximum budget 6k/9k ?

Go for Gigabyte ga-880g M/B , it is good for pIIx4 cpu.

^^ that's indeed a good mobo but the cpu vrm area has no heat sink and it's 4+1 phase only mobo - Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 @ 6.6k is lot better though it has no IGP but for IGP Op can always buy a cheap 1.5k/2.5k priced gfx card later.

Ok, if Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 is available then go for it. i have Gigabyte GA-880g-usb3 M/B @ 6k,
at the time of purchasing this M/B is only available in the market. The other one is GA-990 @ 9 to 10 k.

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Go for GA-970A-UD3 or the ASUS M5A97, both will suffice for medium overclocking but as the Gigabyte mobo has 8+2 phase VRM, its recommended to buy that if you are going to hit 4Ghz+ overclock.

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Maybe stupid question but I think corrupted/incomplete BIOS updates can be fixed right?

^^ in short : yes though the process may be tedious and lengthy.

BTW, if you need to do it make a new thraed for that.

Tech_Wiz said:
Maybe stupid question but I think corrupted/incomplete BIOS updates can be fixed right?

Complete BIOS flash + new installation of BIOS is needed. Remember not many users can do that.

i have xfx 9600GT.

then you are all set to get Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3.