Used Motherboard question

[Corsair1]

Hey all,

A little bit ago, I got a dell Alienware Aurora R4 for helping a friend in his PC shop. Well... It turns out that one of the Memory dimm sockets was bad on the board. This thing had an Intel I7 4930K and a GTX 780 GPU. I decided to buy another Mobo and build from the CPU and GPU that was in it. I was told by a few forumers here that the CPU was a really good CPU and the GPU would serve my purpose for what I use my PC for. (Pillar's of Eternity) and (Tyranny). (Not very GPU or CPU intensive games). Anyways... I bought an Asus SaberTooth X79 LGA 2011 socket board (used) on Amazon. I've seen this is quite the good combo (SaberTooth and Intel 4930K) a lot of builders did this combo back in the day and people still to this day praise LGA 2011 Boards. I started putting it together, and wanted to ask before I finish building it, is there anything I should do or know before booting this used motherboard? Clearing CMOS? I saw there was an option about clearing the memory setup as well on this board. Any suggestions would be really appreciated. I will not boot this up until I get info from others who are knowledgeable in this department.

Thanks so much,
Chris

 

[geofelt]

Nothing special.
Likely, what you get will be at default settings.
Regardless when you enter the bios, you can select to reset to default.

If there is anything to be particularly careful about it is to drop the processor into the motherboard cleanly.
If you try to smoosh it about to seat the processor, you can easily damage the socket pins.

 

[larrycumming]

the sabertooth series usually come with some sort of armor plate and vrm heatsink fan.

i'd take off the plates and inspect the board to see if its clean & free of burn marks, etc. before I power it up. clean up the dusts as they tend to build up under the cover.

if you're too lazy to do that, i'd atleast flip it over and check the solder points to see if its been repaired. nothing against with repaired mobos, but that tells you something


having that said sabertooth is a great series, I personally like them.

 

[Corsair1]

Nothing special.
Likely, what you get will be at default settings.
Regardless when you enter the bios, you can select to reset to default.

If there is anything to be particularly careful about it is to drop the processor into the motherboard cleanly.
If you try to smoosh it about to seat the processor, you can easily damage the socket pins.

Thanks so much for your reply. I have built quite a few PC's before, but never 2011 socket PC's. I definitely did my research before dropping it in. 😀 Thanks for the great advice. Glad to know it's just a normal procedure with bios. Thank you.

Chris

 

[Corsair1]

the sabertooth series usually come with some sort of armor plate and vrm heatsink fan.

i'd take off the plates and inspect the board to see if its clean & free of burn marks, etc. before I power it up. clean up the dusts as they tend to build up under the cover.

if you're too lazy to do that, i'd atleast flip it over and check the solder points to see if its been repaired. nothing against with repaired mobos, but that tells you something




having that said sabertooth is a great series, I personally like them.

Hi Larry,

Thank you for the great advice. Definitely not lazy when it comes to building PC's. Dusting was already done before I posted this. Yay me!

I looked at the board also before posting this, but did NOT look under the plates. I dusted under them though. I will remove them and inspect them before booting the PC up. Again, Thank you.

Chris