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What Motherboard for this RAM

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by Scuderia, Apr 7, 2007.

  1. Scuderia

    Scuderia Guest

    About a month ago I got some upgrades, A new 400 watt Power supply, A (AGP) BFG 7800 GSOC GPU and, (2x) 1gb RAM sticks for my PC but low and behold the ram does not work for some jacked up reason because I have a DELL.Everthing is compatable from what I read but I have been told that Dell MB's are picky. So... after many over and over attempts at tkaeing it in and out and trying to get it to work... I blew out my processor. My 1yr old son charged at me and I droped a few screws in the case and I guess 1 got behind the processor... then I turned it on not knowing. I want replace the dell motherboard with one that is compatable with what I have and just bought. What do you all think would be the best Pentium 4 motherboard for my needs

    Ok I have:
    My 4600i Dell Mini Atx case
    4-PCI cards
    1- AGP BFG 7800 GSOC
    400 watt Power supply
    2- NCP 1GB PC 3200 DDR 400 Mhz 128x64 HIGH DENSITY SUPPORTS DUAL CHANNEL

    Now I have looked and looked for the best motherboard and am just not sure as I haveent got much motherboard choosing knowledge. Here is a ebay link to the memory listed I got from ebay.
    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270090858366
    and here is the ncp website compatabilty link.(PDF file)
    http://www.hexon.com.sg/hexon_tech/products/NCP-DDRCompatibility.PDF

    Please help me as I am on a Pentuim 2 right now and it massivly bites! Also I dont have a ton of money so keep that in mind. Also I will need a new Pentium 4 cheap if anyone has a good one not in use over that is at leat a 2.8 Thanks guys
     
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  2. dazila

    dazila Regular member

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    go to www.crucial.com
    run the memory advisor post back what it says.
     
  3. Scuderia

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    dazila Regular member

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    First you need a motherboard.
    Ok can you give me the model of you current stuffed mainboard?
     
  5. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    if your current psu is by dell than need a dell motherboard because supposedly the dell psu is wired differently & might fry the non-dell motherboard.
     
  6. Scuderia

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    this ia what belarc advisor showed the MoBoard as being last time I ran it I printed a copy:

    Main Circuit Board :

    Dell Computer Corp. 0F4491
    Serial Number: ..CN481113C5011Y.
    Bus Clock: 400 megahertz
    BIOS: Dell Computer Corporation A07 11/06/2003
     

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