Been given a AMD Phenom II...

daniel101191 · 24 Jan 2012 at 01:28

AMD Bulldozer FX-4 Quad Core**** Not Phenom sorry

what chipset or mobo is the best for overclocking, as cheap as possible please £<80 if possible, I know that for the i5 2500k that the Z68 chipset is best, I need the amd equivalent.

and im not selling and getting anything else before someone suggests

Thanks in advanced

slade · 24 Jan 2012 at 01:41

Less then £80 but good overclocker... good luck

You want something like Gigabyte 990XA-UD3 AMD 990X £97.99 or Gigabyte 970A-UD3 AMD 970A (with bios update for FX CPU) £86.99

Asus Sabertooth is a fantastic board @ £129 tho

Dicehunter · 24 Jan 2012 at 14:43

+1 for the sabertooth, Remember you get what you pay for and with mobos you never wanna go cheap, just a friendly bit of advice

Cat_J · 27 Jan 2012 at 00:45

DF1986 said:
+1 for the sabertooth, Remember you get what you pay for and with mobos you never wanna go cheap, just a friendly bit of advice

Agreed. There is such a huge difference between cheap and good motherboards. If you got the CPU free then why not wait untill you can afford a board it deserves.

Plus1 · 28 Jan 2012 at 13:13

Check this one out:-

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-501-AS&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=2046

Alkalinepro5 · 28 Jan 2012 at 17:17

Another vote for Sabertooth. It's a very stable board!

Martini1991 · 28 Jan 2012 at 17:21

DF1986 said:
+1 for the sabertooth, Remember you get what you pay for and with mobos you never wanna go cheap, just a friendly bit of advice

It's not worth paying an extra 50 on the AM3+ platform.

It's a black edition, I'd second Plus1's advice for ; http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-501-AS&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=2046

Anything else is a waste.

Though, I'd strongly advise ; http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-485-AS&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=1481
You'll still get a decent 4GHZ clock off it and you end up not paying a massive amount of money.

Alkalinepro5 · 28 Jan 2012 at 18:15

FX-4 = AM3+ and hence will need a AM3+ board.

Martini1991 · 28 Jan 2012 at 18:17

Alkalinepro5 said:
FX-4 = AM3+ and hence will need a AM3+ board.

And I linked to an AM3+ board.
Also, some AM3 boards do work, but that's besides the point

FX4's a budget CPU, if it was free, pair it with a 40 quid board and you've got an excellent performance for the money you've paid.

Alkalinepro5 · 28 Jan 2012 at 18:22

Martini1991 said:
And I linked to an AM3+ board.
Also, some AM3 boards do work, but that's besides the point

FX4's a budget CPU, if it was free, pair it with a 40 quid board and you've got an excellent performance for the money you've paid.

Which dedicated AM3 boards work with AM3+?

I wqouldn't feel confident about OCing with a £40 motherboard....

I went down this route already and it died within 2 days of my 965BE @ 3.8ghz, and was horifically unstable!

Martini1991 · 28 Jan 2012 at 18:29

Alkalinepro5 said:
Which dedicated AM3 boards work with AM3+?

I wqouldn't feel confident about OCing with a £40 motherboard....

I went down this route already and it died within 2 days of my 965BE @ 3.8ghz, and was horifically unstable!

CH IV and a few others, just look at their CPU compatibility of all AM3 boards to find out

And I've OC'ed with 40 quid boards before, perfectly stable.

mojojojo1972 · 31 Jan 2012 at 14:06

I used this board in a budget build for my son Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 and have the fx 4100 at 4.2ghz stable and all good, I did however put a fan over the mosfets/vrms.

Just a side not I also got a gigabyte gsm31 socket 775 mobo about 2 years ago very cheap, very budget mobo and it clocked amazingly on my other sons pc,and still going strong, yes expensive boards do provide stable/quality but not the end all be all

Alkalinepro5 · 31 Jan 2012 at 14:36

mojojojo1972 said:
I used this board in a budget build for my son Asus M5A78L-M/USB3 and have the fx 4100 at 4.2ghz stable and all good, I did however put a fan over the mosfets/vrms.

Just a side not I also got a gigabyte gsm31 socket 775 mobo about 2 years ago very cheap, very budget mobo and it clocked amazingly on my other sons pc,and still going strong, yes expensive boards do provide stable/quality but not the end all be all

That was the exact board I had. It's a tiny board, and if you install a graphics card it covers the remaining PCIe/PCI port so you can't install a discrete soundcard or anything lol.