So I went to a car boot and I saw a pc motherboard and a few other bits and pices for pc iwas just wondering if you could answer a few questions

What cpu is the one with holes in it ?

How can I tell what ram slot it is without the actual ram?

I will post a pic when I go this weekend

I actually got something that can seriously help you out, dude.

Found this on IMGUR a little while back and it's fucking gold, so here ya go.



Big because that way you can tell.



also, somewhere on the mobo will be a sticker or an etched serial number or model number. google that, BAM instant details.

plus you'll need to find the manufacturer's site too, so you can get downloaded drivers and whatnots.

Holy shit, Rusty actually posted outside of YRYR!

Also, which car boot was it? I only ask cos I notice you're only in Brighouse and I'm up the road in Wyke...

DAMN RIGHT I DID. I'm like a ninja though. I post with deadly precision and without anybody expecting it.

For a PC perv like myself thats almost porn.

what do you mean "almost"?

Question where is the AMD AM3 cpu port?

>mfw this whole thread

True that picture I showed WAS pretty much old, like pre 2009 in fact, so it's less useful for modern hardware, but it is still a very sexy chart.

If you can take a photo of the full motherboard, with nice detail of zoom so I can read what's on the chips at least, I can find you the manual and everything, almost guaranteed.

sorry i did not check the post for a while the were not there the week after but i have not been down since but i have not taken a pic i cannot remember what it looked like, it was the car park across for the black swan ( also thank you for the chart of the hardware)

this may also be off topic but i have looked at the rig ax sudgested and it is a bit out of price but i have made a list of parts that i think is suitable for a simple rig i have a hdd and a diskdrive (sorry they are all links) will they be compatable

http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/comp ... -zch2.html
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/comp ... a-ds3.html
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/comp ... gusbx.html
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/comp ... 00ceu.html
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/comp ... ouga5.html

Hawh, sorry, thought you'd actually picked up the mobo. ^^;

Those parts all look fine to me actually.

Regarding the HDD, providing it's SATA you wont have a problem. If it's EIDE though, you are screwed. It has no EIDE on board, so you'd have to get an EIDE controller or something. The discdrive however? I... am assuming you mean like a DVD or BD-ROM drive or something? Again, if SATA, no probs, just make sure you have enough SATA cables. Otherwise you be fucked yo.

SATA for information and identification: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA
EIDE for likewise: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIDE (Yeah it says Paralell ATA but I've only known it as IDE, and EIDE being enhanced IDE It's like calling vaccuum cleaners 'Hoovers' over here. The brand name just sticks)

Also as a side note, that mobo looks p. cool. It's nice and compact but it's laid out in such a way that things don't appear like they'll get in the way of your graphics card or memory. I had that problem with one mobo I had. It was too compact and laid out in a horrid way so that I couldn't fit a graphics card I wanted in, simply because the graphics card would be in the way of the Sata cable connectors on the mobo, meaning I couldn't have connected any drives. Awful design. That one you posted though looks great.

One FINAL FINAL FINAL word of note, that graphics card? You're going to want to put it in the blue PCI-E slot nearest the CPU socket. That one's the PCI-Ex16 slot. The other one is a x4 which is purely for if you get an identical card and want to run it in Crossfire mode.