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Earthkanu · 01-08-2009, 05:38

The situation:

My dad's finally ready to retire the 2.8Ghz Northwood I built him a few years back. I decided to give him my socket 939 Athlon 64X2 (4600) system & build myself a Core i7 920 rig. The i7 build went fine, but in the course of removing the graphics card from the old 939 board (Asus A8N-E), that damn plastic retention clip wouldn't let go & ended up coming off with the graphics card. I plugged the card back in & now there's no video signal. The card works fine in the i7 board (which has a much better retention clip design).

Conclusion: I busted the PCI-E x16 slot on the A8N-E that has already been promised to dad.

Two possible solutions:

1) Bring my Abit AV8-3rd Eye out of retirement & use that with dad's current AGP card (GeForce 4Ti 4200-8x)

2) Buy a used A8N-E on Ebay, take the 7600GT out of the Core i7 machine, give that to dad as originally planned, & get myself a newer graphics card.

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Question: What's the bigger gamble?
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A) trusting an Abit AV8-3rd Eye (Via K8T800 Pro chipset) motherboard to be stable enough for dad
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B) buying used hardware off ebay?

01-08-2009, 05:38	#2
Earthkanu Junior Member Iscritto dal: Aug 2009 Messaggi: 3	small problem while rebuilding my old pc to give to my dad The situation: My dad's finally ready to retire the 2.8Ghz Northwood I built him a few years back. I decided to give him my socket 939 Athlon 64X2 (4600) system & build myself a Core i7 920 rig. The i7 build went fine, but in the course of removing the graphics card from the old 939 board (Asus A8N-E), that damn plastic retention clip wouldn't let go & ended up coming off with the graphics card. I plugged the card back in & now there's no video signal. The card works fine in the i7 board (which has a much better retention clip design). Conclusion: I busted the PCI-E x16 slot on the A8N-E that has already been promised to dad. Two possible solutions: 1) Bring my Abit AV8-3rd Eye out of retirement & use that with dad's current AGP card (GeForce 4Ti 4200-8x) 2) Buy a used A8N-E on Ebay, take the 7600GT out of the Core i7 machine, give that to dad as originally planned, & get myself a newer graphics card. ***************************************** Question: What's the bigger gamble? *************************************** A) trusting an Abit AV8-3rd Eye (Via K8T800 Pro chipset) motherboard to be stable enough for dad -or- B) buying used hardware off ebay? __________________ milf * Rakeback on Absolute Poker