After spilling a cup of tea down the back of it a year or so ago today i finally took it into a shop to get repaired. The guy said it's my motherboard that needs replacing and said it would be about £60-£70 so i left it with him. He said he would order one tonight and it will be here tomorrow. My question is is this a fair price? I don't know too much about fixing computers or building them, i just built this one with on my work experience. I somehow have an inkling the original motherboard was a bit more than that.. regarding I'm paying for his service. 

 

I'll be able to post the specs when i get the pc back

The £60-70 is only a good price if the motherboard he installs is good. If he installs a £40 motherboard and takes £30 as labour then that sucks.

The £60-70 is only a good price if the motherboard he installs is good. If he installs a £40 motherboard and takes £30 as labour then that sucks.

 

Exactly mate. I'm not bothered about the money, that's the thing. He seemed like a sound guy, but I know recently a place was shut down not far from where I live for seriously ripping people off. The owner would literally ruin iPhone's to get more money out of customers.

 

Would a £50 motherboard be decent, like decent enough to run games such as Dayz? I have loads of games and have drifted from playing since it broke. Got alot of old clips aswell that im looking forward to watching

Edited February 19, 201411 yr by waddy420

Exactly mate. I'm not bothered about the money, that's the thing. He seemed like a sound guy, but I know recently a place was shut down not far from where I live for seriously ripping people off. The owner would literally ruin iPhone's to get more money out of customers.

 

Would a £50 motherboard be decent, like decent enough to run games such as Dayz? I have loads of games and have drifted from playing since it broke. Got alot of old clips aswell that im looking forward to watching

I don't think the motherboard matters that much, as long as it's compatible with your cpu and you're not going to overclock.

Exactly mate. I'm not bothered about the money, that's the thing. He seemed like a sound guy, but I know recently a place was shut down not far from where I live for seriously ripping people off. The owner would literally ruin iPhone's to get more money out of customers.

 

Would a £50 motherboard be decent, like decent enough to run games such as Dayz? I have loads of games and have drifted from playing since it broke. Got alot of old clips aswell that im looking forward to watching

 

The motherboard doesn't contribute to performance, what it does do is allows you to upgrade the other parts which do contribute to gaming. So say your motherboard has a RAM capacity of 16GB, getting a motherboard with 32GB capacity will let you install more RAM.

 

Similarly if the socket is compatible with the newer haswell processors/AMD black edition processors (AM3+ socket) then it will allow you to upgrade your CPU accordingly. Which in turn allows you to improve the gaming performance.

 

DayZ isn't really that much of a hungry game if i'm not mistaken, a decent GPU will run it such as a GTX 650ti and a decent CPU will as well.

I don't think the motherboard matters that much, as long as it's compatible with your cpu and you're not going to overclock.

 

Cool, everything cost me about £300

Cool, everything cost me about £300

What are your specs if you know them?

Too overpriced.

Too overpriced.