Hi, all.

This is only the second build of my life, and motherboards aren't my forte.

So far, I have an AMD 7970 video card, an AMD 8350 processor, and 8GB of RAM (see below).

My GPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125413

My CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113284

My RAM: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231428&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=6146836&SID=1ir1t10p68v8c

Here are some parameters for my new motherboard:

I want USB 3.0

I want SATA 6GB/s

I do not plan on CrossFire

My price range is $150 or lower

The below two motherboards are considerations:

Asus for $145: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131851

Gigabyte for $138: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128514

Do you have any motherboard recommendations?

Thank you.

here's some suggestions:

Chopin:

1) Polonaise in A Flat, Op. 53 ("Heroic")--you can hear this on my youtube account

2) Nocturne #2 In E Flat, Op. 9

Beethoven:

1) Piano Sonata #8 in C Minor, Op. 13 ("Pathetique")

Schumann:

1) Kinderszenen, Op. 15--you can hear this on my youtube account

2) Kreislerian, Op. 16

3) Carnaval, Op. 9

the last three are piano cycles.

I've just killed my XFX 7600GT 256MB DDR3 while playing Far Cry 2, this is my 3rd time-replaced card!!. I don know what the hell is wrong in my system, First card was killed while playing Crysis, then i got a new card as replacement after waiting for 1 month, then after just 4 days the same thing happened!! - BLUE or GREEN lines on the screen. then i got that too replaced, its running fine for 2 months - i've finished warhead on it on low settings, now while playing far cry 2 it died. I'm again going to relace it again now, i'm very very frustrated & depressed by this, what could be the problem? My room is air-conditioned & i'm pretty confident that the causes for the problem is not overheating, I think the PSU is the culprit, its a cheap 400Watt **** local brand ). Should i change the PSU or whats wrong with my system?

Spec:-

AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+

2GB DDR2

ASUS M2N-MX

prasath_amd

do you know how many watts are on the 12v rail/s of your psu? if you don't off the top of your head, there should be a sticker on the side of the unit that tells you. personally, i would buy a psu from a trustworthy manufacturer that has no lower than 25 amps on these rail/s.

as any pc savy person will tell you, you never want to skimp on the psu because if it goes there's a chance that other parts might go as well.

defragment your hard drive, run avast or avg for viruses, run spybot and adaware for spyware, run ccleaner for deleting temporary files and cleaning up your registry

installing more ram often does wonders, but i wouldn't recommend overclocking unless you're an enthusiast. some trustworthy ram manufacturer are corsair, ocz, crucial, kingston, mushkin, patriot, and g skill.

here's a quick tweak for lessening the load for your operating system with little to no visiual quality loss (i know it works well for xp, but not sure about vista): start>my computer>view system information>advanced>performance>settings>uncheck all of the boxes except the bottom three

and here's a quick optimization for booting up your operating system quicker: start>run>type "msconfig" (without the quotation marks)>startup>uncheck boxes when appropriate

i'm assuming you're running a windows operating system. telling us your specifications would be helpful too.

here's some pointers off the top of my head:

99% of the time [A]x ≠ x[A] in matrix multiplication, although [A]x = x[A] always holds for scalars, i.e., for matrices of dimension 1x1.

in order to be able to multiply any two matrices, say [A] and , either the # of rows for [A] must equal the number of columns for , or the # of columns for [A] must equal the # of rows for , or both. for example, if [A] has dimension 2x3 and has dimension 4x5, then matrix multiplication is undefined here. but if [A] has dimension 2x3 and has dimension 3x5, for instance, then matrix multiplication is defined, and the resulting matrix has dimension 2x5 in accordance with the"outer" integers. notice the "inner" integers equal each other here, which implies that matrix multiplication can be performed.

for matrix algebra, it helps to think of the identity matrix —i.e., any matrix who has all ones on its main diagonal and all zeros off its main diagonal—as the number one in ordinary algebra because x[A] = [A]x = [A].

if you ever want to quickly find the inverse of a matrix [A], make use of the x−1 button on your calculator. determinants and transposes can also be evaluated on it via the matrix button. all three of these functions are immensely helpful and save a lot of time.