Which 790FX Board

htraffic · 10 Jan 2008 at 09:12

Which 790FX board do you guys recommend? Im planning on running a 9600be, ive got 2x 3870's and 8gb of G.Skills 1000mhz ram. Its all going in an antec 900 case and ive got a tuniq tower cooler for the cpu

Tute · 10 Jan 2008 at 09:27

Do you have a budget?

Also if you haven't bought the parts already, the Core 2 range are faster and overclock much better, for around the same money.

edgedemon · 10 Jan 2008 at 09:29

Also watch out for the Southbridge chip number, you want a SB700, not the older SB600 that is present on the early AMD boards

htraffic · 10 Jan 2008 at 09:48

not really any budget, I dont want intel, im going phenom so once again which board

Trunks9486 · 10 Jan 2008 at 10:40

I reccomend the Gigabyte boards, experience from P35 boards is excellent at least.

If you are interested in Quad Crossfire get the DQ6, if not get the DS5 for normal crossfire/

Herojuana · 10 Jan 2008 at 10:43

Sounds like quite a beefy system you'll be having, nice!!

htraffic · 10 Jan 2008 at 11:00

i seem to build new machines every 3 years then upgrade sometime around the 18 month mark lol this time im trying to go the 3 years with no upgrades! Im not planning on quad crossfire yet, may consider it eventually.

Herojuana · 10 Jan 2008 at 11:21

Haha, alright. Well if I was gonna get an AM2+ 790 i would probs go for http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-094-MS

roadie · 10 Jan 2008 at 11:42

I'd go for that board's bigger brother myself...

Herojuana · 10 Jan 2008 at 11:46

you mean http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-075-MS&tool=3 ?

htraffic · 10 Jan 2008 at 11:57

i think it will be either the 790fx version of that board or the cheper gigabyte one i go for

htraffic · 10 Jan 2008 at 11:59

edgedemon said:
Also watch out for the Southbridge chip number, you want a SB700, not the older SB600 that is present on the early AMD boards

i cant seem to find any 790FX boards with the S700 on them, care to supply some board names?

zero-one · 10 Jan 2008 at 12:06

I don't think there's any out yet?

Are you using RAID? I think SB600 should be fine if you're not.

It's specs are:

SB600

I was looking at some AMD boards a while ago for a friend. The Gigabyte 790fx looks excellent.

htraffic · 10 Jan 2008 at 12:19

i was considering going raid on a few drives in the future, will it work with the sb600?

Bleek · 10 Jan 2008 at 14:12

I run the MSI K9A2 Plat - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-093-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=808

No complaints here, runs very cool, overclocks very well and is full of excellent features including exceptionally good voltage control and quad fire graphics.

Herojuana · 10 Jan 2008 at 17:29

Is AM2+ motherboard CPU fitting screw in?

Firegod · 10 Jan 2008 at 17:52

Edleake said:
I run the MSI K9A2 Plat - http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-093-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=808

No complaints here, runs very cool, overclocks very well and is full of excellent features including exceptionally good voltage control and quad fire graphics.

That's the one i've been eyeing up as well. I don't fancy Asus boards, and the Gigabyte models have no PCI-X slot so I can't fit my Abit AirPace Wireless card. However the MSI Plat. does. Yey!

Mista.Gee · 10 Jan 2008 at 18:46

Same position here, been keeping a closer eye on this.

Bleek · 10 Jan 2008 at 19:43

Herojuana said:
Is AM2+ motherboard CPU fitting screw in?

Not sure what you mean but both cpu and HSF use a clip mechanism.

RaiderX · 10 Jan 2008 at 19:52

id get the msi board, http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-093-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=808 , especially if your going crossfire as you can upgrade to quad crossfire