Bringing Back My Older Desktop To Life.amd Phenom Ii X4 965 Black Edition

Ok so today i decided to order new motherboard and a new video card.For my AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb Quad-Core 3.4 GHz Socket AM3 125W.

Story time.

This MSI motherboard i built back in 1996,lasted all most 20 years of life.The motherboard finally gave up this year.After that amount of time,that is a very long time to run.The desktop only shut off during power outages .It basically ran 24/7.

The MSI 870a - G54 motherboard finally stopped posting BIOS.The system will turn on and the fans run and every thing.But No beep codes no nothing.I tried every thing.Taking out the cmos resetting the cmos jumper.And nothing just a black screen.Video monitor works perfectly fine.I have it connected to my laptop HDMI port.

So what to do buy a new board i guess.

So last time the system was running good.The RAM checked out fine.The system turns on but no bios.So i would say the cpu works perfectly fine.

The power supply is new only been used once or twice.

So i ordered this items to replace my motherboard and my EVGA 550ti which was about dead as well.So you can tell i had this system for a while.

This is the replacement board
Gigabyte AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gbps USB 3.0 ATX AM3+ Socket DDR3 1600 Motherboards (GA-970A-DS3P)

And the replacement video card,which is better then my older card lol.
ViewMax GeForce GT 730 4GB GDDR3 128 Bit PCI Express (PCIe) DVI Video Card HDMI & HDCP Support - Product code name : AMERICAN WARRIOR EDITION

 

That CPU was introduced in August of 2009.

 

i had a dual core be for it.

 

An AMD dual core in '96... really? Methinks you got your decades mixed up, 2006 would be better for an Athlon X2.

 

There where a few upgrades since the dual core.

 

The motherboard it self was made in 1996,and i had single cores installed on the motherboard.I don't remember what models i had prior to the dual.It's been so long since i installed the quad core.It was continuously upgraded through out the years.

 

Hmmm.........this sounds like my grandfathers axe that was 35 years old and he used to tell everyone he will never get rid of it because they don't make them to last this well any more............mind you the axe had at least 7 new handles and 3 new axe heads but according to grandpa it was still the same axe

 

Correction.My fault.

I was thinking about my older build.That had a AMD K5 Processor.

 

Here is my computer case clean up.Neat and clean.

 

The MSI board you specified was released in 2010.

How old is your case? Mine is 17.

 

Sep 6, 2010 i looked up the release date.HAF 912 case

Like i said i made a mistake on dates.My other system had a AMD K5 Processor.Which was made in 1996.

This is a system that was built in 2010.

Be for that i had a few systems.A couple of Dells and a compact from 1991.

I switched out parts so many times i can't keep track.

 

Ok i got the new motherboard installed and is running.
This is my test monitor.It's not the one i use.I am currently installing windows 10 64bit pro fresh.I setup every thing last night to get it ready to go for a 5 min install.

 

Windows 10 up and running.

 

Hook some sound up!

Good job.....

 

Now all you need is a PDP or OLED display, a nice amp, some quality speakers, and viola!

 

What........... one of these

https://www.johnsonstring.com/images/instrument_image/a-va_3223.jpg


........I think you mean voila

 

Windows 10 1803 was causing me issues.So i had to go with windows 7.I all so switched out my parts from new video card and added the heat sink and fan fit perfectly.