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Update: Ebay has refunded me the money so I'm very glad that things have worked out. Maybe next year I could try to upgrade my main gaming rig to a Haswell i5 again though I might have to be careful of which seller to purchase from next time. ^^

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel - Core i5-4440 3.1GHz Quad-Core Processor ($150.00) Motherboard: Asus - H81M-A Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (Purchased For $0.00) Memory: Crucial - 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For $0.00) Memory: Crucial - 4GB...

Bad News: Apparently even following the guide on how to overclock the CPU, the bios doesn't show the "overclocked" clock speed as 3.9 Ghz (or 3900 Mhz) instead showing 3212 Mhz for some reason. What should I do in this situation to fix this problem? =(

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel - Pentium G3258 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor (Purchased For $59.00) Motherboard: Asus - H81M-E Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (Purchased For $65.00) Memory: Crucial - Ballistix Sport 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For...

Another update: Good news is that the new motherboard had arrived yesterday and I've managed to get the PC to POST with the new motherboard. And this time I checked twice to make sure that the standoffs were screwed in the case properly and tightly. So the installation of the new motherboard...

Update: When I was reseating the motherboard I noticed that two of the standoffs were loose and were even screwed onto the bolts. So I had to reseat the two loose standoffs and tighten the standoffs that were loosened. I also noticed that the motherboard was very slightly bent so that probably...

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Celeron G1840 2.8GHz Dual-Core Processor (Purchased For $0.00) Motherboard: MSI H81M-P33 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (Purchased For $57.62) Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory (Purchased For...