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775 socket - DDR2 RAM (1.8 or 2.2v .... 800 bus preferable). The processor I have is Intel's E2200 (2.2 GHz Pentium dual core).

Does anyone know of a good web retailer other than Newegg or Tigerdirect? Both sites have the mobos in the $50 range and I was hoping for something cheaper. Price is obviously my primary purchase point so PCIe 2.0 doesn't really matter.

I just finished an i3 build with an ASUS board that I really like, but I'm not committed to any particular brand to replace a dead EVGA.

Thanks in advance.

50 bucks sounds about right to me.

Thanks Psydeffect. I suppose it does, but I thought there might be another site to offer a few more choices. Ebay was in the same price range and I surprised there wasn't more available there.

Newegg ftw again. It's ASRock or MSI at this point. No matter how hard I try to buy elsewhere I always end up there.

Getting under $50 for a mobo is tough. Generally, by the time you get boards in that price range, they are just refurbs & stock that the stores can't clear for a dead architecture.

I don't know what prices for it are right now, but I have a Gigabyte EP45-UD3L and it's just smooth. Very solid, well built board that overclocks extremely easy if you're looking for that.

I guess I was hoping that the older DDR2 would be discounted more since it appears that much if what is available new is DDR3 for the 775 socket and, of course, Intel's "i" series.

I'll check out Gigabyte. I don't overclock since I use stock cooling. While I understand that processors are rated conservatively, my needs are within the reported specs.

Warranty and price are what is going to decide my purchase. I fear that the now dead EVGA board was a problem since at or near the beginning of this now 3.5 year old build. This is the same computer that I have reported and seeked advice for here for because of a significant number of stop errors and POST / BIOS problems. A number of folks here at DawgTalkers aptly advised my to tear it down and isolate the problem, but I didn't do that until recently. The warranty ran out 6 months ago and I was hoping that a call to EVGA would get me a good faith replacement, but that was to no avail (like I said, I "hoped", but didn't expect).

Oh well, $50 more and it should be back up and running.

I quit using MSI. 2 of the last 3 boards I had were MSI and 1 had a RAM socket failure, the other had compatibility problems with hardware I had (in particular my Intel SSD)

Been using Gigabyte for years with great results.