Hello all.
Recently I've not had much luck with a new PC build I put together off the back of advice taken from this here forum:
Asus M4A785TD-V EVO 785G Socket AM3 onboard DVI VGA HDMI
AMD Athlon II X3 435 2.9GHz Socket AM3 1.5MB L2 Cache
Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 1TB HD
Crucial 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1333MHz/PC3-10600 Ballistix Memory Kit
Coolermaster Elite 335 Case
OCZ 400W StealthXStream PSU
The main issue has been when I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on this system, there seems to be a compatability issue with the motherboards BIOS / hardware, something extremely technical anyway, which means the internal clock on the chip itself pulses at double/treble/quadruple speed.
O.K. already you're thinking I'm crazy, but I'm not. I've tried everything from turning off HD Audio, resetting/updating the BIOS, and any other wild suggestions. There are numerous unsuccessful threads about this on the net, one can be found here: http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?...Language=en-us
In essence, we are all ****ed and ASUS have no solution, at least until some kind of BIOS upgrade. In the meantime I do not have a working PC at home, so I'm biting the bullet and sending the motherboard back. I'm going to buy a new bleeding motherboard that won't have the same problems. And in a kind of protest against ASUS it will not be ASUS!
So can anyone suggest to me a good AM3 motherboard (with video graphics on board) or alternatively a AM3 motherboard plus another suggestion for a cheap graphics card. I'm willing to spend between £50 and £100 to kill this ridiculous issue.