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Help me find a decent but cheap AM4 motherboard
August 17, 2023 at
08:57 AM
About 2.5 years ago during the bad times I picked up that Asus ROG Strix G10DK prebuilt (5700G, 16GB RAM, 256GB NVMe, 2060 Super 8GB) from Walmart for $999. I moved the GPU and motherboard into a nice Lian Li LED case, paired it with the 3700X from a steaming pile of Alienware R10 I bought to get an RTX3070, and gifted it to my son. He's gamed with it daily since then.
1-2 weeks ago it started crashing more and more often until it wouldn't stay up for 60 seconds before a BSOD. I spent all of the past weekend troubleshooting the thing by swapping each part into my own PC to run tests. I think I've narrowed it down to the motherboard, which is long out of warranty. I already have an extra 3600 from back in the day that will probably never get used again, so I'd prefer not to bench yet another CPU.
Does anyone have ideas to get him back up and running reliably and cheaply for another year or two? Sadly, I no longer live within 6 hours of a Microcenter.
Preferably $150 or below
WiFi not mandatory
4 DIMM slots preferred
1-2 weeks ago it started crashing more and more often until it wouldn't stay up for 60 seconds before a BSOD. I spent all of the past weekend troubleshooting the thing by swapping each part into my own PC to run tests. I think I've narrowed it down to the motherboard, which is long out of warranty. I already have an extra 3600 from back in the day that will probably never get used again, so I'd prefer not to bench yet another CPU.
Does anyone have ideas to get him back up and running reliably and cheaply for another year or two? Sadly, I no longer live within 6 hours of a Microcenter.
Preferably $150 or below
WiFi not mandatory
4 DIMM slots preferred
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1-2 weeks ago it started crashing more and more often until it wouldn't stay up for 60 seconds before a BSOD. I spent all of the past weekend troubleshooting the thing by swapping each part into my own PC to run tests. I think I've narrowed it down to the motherboard, which is long out of warranty. I already have an extra 3600 from back in the day that will probably never get used again, so I'd prefer not to bench yet another CPU.
Does anyone have ideas to get him back up and running reliably and cheaply for another year or two? Sadly, I no longer live within 6 hours of a Microcenter.
Preferably $150 or below
WiFi not mandatory
4 DIMM slots preferred
I'm not super keen on motherboards and I have been a little out of touch with recent technology for PC building but I did set up a list on PC Part Picker [pcpartpicker.com] that you could take a look at for AM4 motherboards.
Here is a list of AM4 Motherboard deals on SD and here is a recent deal for an ASRock B550 Motherboard ($90 shipped on Newegg) as well.
I have used this MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX [pcpartpicker.com] ($75 shipped on Amazon) as well in the past and loved it for my budget build.