Trying to Identify my mobo?

imamosher · 10 Mar 2010 at 10:37

I recently purchased a pc second hand and tho booklet I received for the MOBO said it was the MSI790GX however from doing a fair bit of research I think there are a few varients on this board and I'n not sure which one I have.

I currently have 8gigs of ddr2 memory in there and wanted to know if the board supports ddr3 and if it does what would the real world benefits be of ddr3 as opposed to ddr2 memory.

thanks

Solaris · 10 Mar 2010 at 10:38

cpu-z should show your board model....

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Then look at the manufacturers website

imamosher · 10 Mar 2010 at 11:23

thanks, much appreciated

pastymuncher · 10 Mar 2010 at 13:19

It should also say it on the motherboard itself.

Hodders · 10 Mar 2010 at 13:51

Or start-run-dxdiag will sometimes say (mine does)

thingemajib · 10 Mar 2010 at 17:22

take a good hard look at the board, and compare it with the pics on msi website?
if it has ddr2, then it will be socket AM2+, and will not work with ddr3

elizabethturner · 11 Mar 2010 at 14:16

Any one please advocate me if I am having AMD anthlone processor and I loose my mother CD they how can I arrange right motherboard drivers for my processor.

Thanks in advance.

thingemajib · 11 Mar 2010 at 18:48

find out your motherboards manufacturer (eg, gigabyte, asus etc), and go to their website. find your motherboard name, and look for it. there should be some kind of link to download drivers

IKMS · 11 Mar 2010 at 18:49

Whatever CPU-Z says it is, it is.

Using the manufacterers website support page is your best bet.

CooK1E · 11 Mar 2010 at 19:26

If you know a few things about the board you may be able to use the http://www.motherboards.org/mobot/ board finder.

molemole0 · 11 Mar 2010 at 22:38

CPUZ will reveal all

imamosher · 12 Mar 2010 at 11:36

Hi guys, still stuck on identifying exact model, I will try post up the CPUZ shots tonight.

imamosher · 12 Mar 2010 at 18:58

This exact mobo is not listed ont he MSI website?

MagicBoy · 12 Mar 2010 at 19:04

2 minutes found this :

http://www.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&prod_no=1612

imamosher · 12 Mar 2010 at 19:09

thats it, much appreciated...in terms of mobo's is this board any good?

MagicBoy · 12 Mar 2010 at 19:11

Dunno. Never owned an AMD CPU...

Pneumonic · 12 Mar 2010 at 21:00

imamosher said:
thats it, much appreciated...in terms of mobo's is this board any good?

Never used that board but it looks all-right, it will take all of the current generation of AMD CPU, is AM2+ so will be DDR2 RAM rather than DDR3