im about to order this lot in a couple of weeks but i have a few
questions about the motherboard
AMD Bulldozer FX-8 Eight Core 8150 Black Edition (may get the tested 8120 to clock to 8150) to save some pennys.
Asus Sabertooth 990FX
Corsair Force Series 3 120GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive
2x Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9
anyone know if the bios version on the sabertooth stock is compatable with the bulldozer ? i dont have an am3 cpu to upgrade the bios.
(im currently running an am2+ phenom2 940)
also i have an asus xonar essence stx (pci-x) soundcard and i need to know if
i can run it in the lowest pci-x slot ? as my HD5870 has a zalman vf3000a cooler (3 slot) so the pci-x 1 slot will be unusable ... i know it "should" work but it would be nice to know if someone else is running a simular card in the lowest slot ... as i may have to get the msi gd80 instead
and to avoid the "get an i5 replies"
this build will be mainly for hd video editing/encoding
so no need to tell me i should get an i5 as gameing is no longer important to me and from the reviews ive seen the fx8 beats the i5 in video encoding
questions about the motherboard
AMD Bulldozer FX-8 Eight Core 8150 Black Edition (may get the tested 8120 to clock to 8150) to save some pennys.
Asus Sabertooth 990FX
Corsair Force Series 3 120GB SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Drive
2x Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9
anyone know if the bios version on the sabertooth stock is compatable with the bulldozer ? i dont have an am3 cpu to upgrade the bios.
(im currently running an am2+ phenom2 940)
also i have an asus xonar essence stx (pci-x) soundcard and i need to know if
i can run it in the lowest pci-x slot ? as my HD5870 has a zalman vf3000a cooler (3 slot) so the pci-x 1 slot will be unusable ... i know it "should" work but it would be nice to know if someone else is running a simular card in the lowest slot ... as i may have to get the msi gd80 instead
and to avoid the "get an i5 replies"
this build will be mainly for hd video editing/encoding
so no need to tell me i should get an i5 as gameing is no longer important to me and from the reviews ive seen the fx8 beats the i5 in video encoding
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