What inbuilt GPU does a GA-A75M-D2H have?

[rotNdude]

What CPU does your dad have now?

[broadwey_again]

Originally Posted by rotNdude

What CPU does your dad have now?

Not sure, it's under some thermal paste I think and I can't turn it on yet because as I said the current motherboards dead and the new one hasn't arrived yet.

I'll look on it and check (I think I have some spare paste to put on afterwards).

EDIT:

AMD Athlon 64 x2

[General Jameson]

Originally Posted by broadwey_again

Not sure, it's under some thermal paste I think and I can't turn it on yet because as I said the current motherboards dead and the new one hasn't arrived yet.

I'll look on it and check (I think I have some spare paste to put on afterwards).

EDIT:

AMD Athlon 64 x2

That CPU will not work with that motherboard "GA-A75M-D2H", they are incompatible. I am thinking your RAM is most likely DDR2 so that would not be compatible with that board either.

[broadwey_again]

Originally Posted by General Jameson

That CPU will not work with that motherboard "GA-A75M-D2H", they are incompatible. I am thinking your RAM is most likely DDR2 so that would not be compatible with that board either.

I got him some DDR3 and if the CPU doesn't work then I'll buy him a new one.

[-RASCAL-]

The Athlon 64 X2's are socket 939 and AM2. The GA-A75M-D2H uses the much newer socket FM1. You need a socket FM1 APU (CPU+GPU in one chip) to function.

Which GPU the chip has depends on what APU you decide to buy.
A8 > HD 6550D
A6 > HD 6530D
A4 > HD 6410D

I built a APU system last month with:
- A6-3670K APU
- GA-A75-D3H (step up from the board you got, but still has many similarities)

If you need help getting around with your board / chip, feel free to give a shout out.

[broadwey_again]

Originally Posted by -RASCAL-

The Athlon 64 X2's are socket 939 and AM2. The GA-A75M-D2H uses the much newer socket FM1. You need a socket FM1 APU (CPU+GPU in one chip) to function.

Which GPU the chip has depends on what APU you decide to buy.
A8 > HD 6550D
A6 > HD 6530D

I built a APU system last month with:
- A6-3670K APU
- GA-A75-D3H (step up from the board you got, but still has many similarities)

If you need help getting around with your board / chip, feel free to give a shout out.

Thanks

Okay so I have some compatible DDR3 so that should be fine.
I may get my brother and I to buy him that APU.

So currently as it stands I'm looking at:

GA-A75M-D2H
4GB DDR3 RAM (supported I checked the list)
AMD A6-3670K
Delta DPS 250ab 22a PSU (This should be enough power hopefully)
His monitors 1280x720

That should do it right?
He usually plays TF2 and L4D2 and I'm going to get him into CSGO.
These specs should run these games okay right?

[broadwey_again]

Bump.

[-RASCAL-]

Looks good.
The power supply is a little "small" but for a bare system (no add-on graphics card, sound card, several HDDs) it should be fine.

These APUs favor faster frequency RAM (since the GPU VRAM is the memory that you have installed). DDR3 1600MHz is okay, but preferably and from experience, get DDR3 1866MHz.

DDR3 RAM prices are at a all-time low, so if you are willing to shell out a couple bucks more, go for 8GB (2 X 4GB) instead.

The A6-3670K has an unlocked multiplier. If you don't plan to overclock you can save a bit of money by going for the locked variant - A6-3650.

[broadwey_again]

Originally Posted by -RASCAL-

Looks good.
The power supply is a little "small" but for a bare system (no add-on graphics card, sound card, several HDDs) it should be fine.

These APUs favor faster frequency RAM (since the GPU VRAM is the memory that you have installed). dDR3 1600MHz is okay, but preferably and from experience, get DDR3 1866MHz.

DDR3 RAM prices are at a all-time low, so if you are willing to shell out a couple buck more, go for 8GB (2 X 4GB) instead.

The A6-3670K has an unlocked multiplier. If you don't plan to overclock you can save a bit of money by going for the locked variant - A6-3650.

Thanks
Okay so looking at the APU's I though I'd shell out a bit more and go for this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/AMD-A8-3850-...cp_computers_1

It's compatible and seems better than my previous plan so yeh I'll go for this I think.

Thanks so much for your help everyone

[-RASCAL-]

Yeah I was going to update my reply and suggest the A8-3850 haha. You're a quick one.

The faster in-die GPU will certainly yield better performance in those games.

[broadwey_again]

Okay so I'm sorted now.

In the end I decided not to get an APU and just go for one of the compatible CPU's on the list (One of the Athlon II's).

Anyways the motherboard came and I've put it into the case but there's a few problems.

-My regular fans have 3 holes but the motherboard has 4 pins for system fans

-also my System things which plug into the slots with the colours are grouped together and are as a plug in the format

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They aren't labelled and as I said are grouped as one plug so I cannot move them around. There's a place where they CAN fit in fine but I'm not particularly sure whether that's where they should be.

[rotNdude]

A 3-pin fan can plug into a 4-pin fan header just fine. Make sure you don't force it in.

Here is the diagram for a 9-pin front panel header.

http://www.intel.com/support/motherb.../cs-009016.htm

[broadwey_again]

Originally Posted by rotNdude

A 3-pin fan can plug into a 4-pin fan header just fine. Make sure you don't force it in.

Here is the diagram for a 9-pin front panel header.

http://www.intel.com/support/motherb.../cs-009016.htm

Thanks

Which side of the 4 pin do I plug the 3 pin into the left or the right?

Also there's still some gaps in the header if I plug it in like that.
Should there be?

[rotNdude]

http://www.intel.com/support/motherb.../cs-012074.htm

I don't know what you mean by gaps in the header?

[broadwey_again]

Originally Posted by rotNdude

http://www.intel.com/support/motherb.../cs-012074.htm

I don't know what you mean by gaps in the header?

Okay so i have a cable like

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And the header is like

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