Recent content by Gerry Murphy

Do you think it would work or am I barking up the wrong tree?

What does the 970 mean in the nomenclature? My board is by Gigabyte but I see some of these are by MSI. Is this a case of sellers slapping their brand on hardware they only sell? I see that a lot with GPUs. What do you estimate to be the likelihood of successfully moving the components to...

I actually believe I've got one or more of these if I can lay my hands on it. (I'm a bit of a pack rat.) Thanks.

Yes. If the replacement mobo I'm getting doesn't solve the problem I'll keep that in mind.

Found a replacement motherboard locally on craigslist so, once I get that this issue should be resolved. Not that it matters but the machine does in fact boot up and runs fine, except it won't connect to the internet because of a socket failure.

Would a different socket be compatible with my CPU?

Are there other socket options for my cpu? Except for the mobo everything else works well. I could easily reuse the other components except the CPU.

Built a PC over a decade ago for gaming and in the last year or so it's showing annoying problems related to hardware. I mostly use it for email, web surfing and some gaming. The components on the motherboard CPU, Graphics card etc. are: AMD Phenom II X6 1035T processor 2.60 GHz 8 GB Corsair...