Best AM3 motherboard?

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ToxicAdam

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The ASUS Crosshair III is a nice board. It does x16 + x16 in crossfire as well. Thanks for finding that one.
 
What's going on with MSI 790FX-GD70?

Legit reviews has a review up where one of the board components pop on a routine overclocking... He went on to say in the forums:

I know a guy, Ton from Team Ironmods, who has killed 4 of these boards. Chew* from Xtremesystems has killed 1, and then we have this sample at LR that randomly blew up at a very safe voltage. Unfortunately it is the only decent AM3 board with 4 usable PCIe slots so they keep using them and keep killing them. Perhaps if you keep the voltages below 1.5v they won't blow up
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http://forums.legitreviews.com/about22015.html


Doesn't look good from here...
 
ToxicAdam said:
What's going on with MSI 790FX-GD70?

Legit reviews has a review up where one of the board components pop on a routine overclocking... He went on to say in the forums:

http://forums.legitreviews.com/about22015.html


Doesn't look good from here...
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Apparently that board overvolts like mad. So, if you overclock and start pumping up the juice, they fry quite quickly. Personally, I wouldn't touch anything made by MSI.
 
Reus said:
Apparently that board overvolts like mad. So, if you overclock and start pumping up the juice, they fry quite quickly. Personally, I wouldn't touch anything made by MSI.
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It died at a vcore of 1.45v, Not exactly "overvolting like mad" :rolleyes:
 
Unknown-One said:
It died at a vcore of 1.45v, Not exactly "overvolting like mad" :rolleyes:
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Well, from what I understood over at XS the voltage you set in the BIOS is quite a bit lower than what it is actually pushing. I would call that overvolting. :rolleyes: Phenom IIs are supposedly safe up to 1.5v with proper cooling.
 
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790FX-GD70 is a better board compared to my previous Asus M3A79-T Deluxe. It doesn't overvolt, my Asus overvolts like crazy, 1.35V in BIOS would give 1.42V in CPU-Z. The MSI board give 1.34V when 1.35V is set in BIOS. From what I see at Xtremesystems, they like the board. No one has a board died on them at 1.45V, most of them are overclocking with ~1.55V without any problem.:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3771025&postcount=240

Here is another thread about the board:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55369

Btw Sampsa killed the board with 1.75V:
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3830875&postcount=622
 
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Reus said:
Well, from what I understood over at XS the voltage you set in the BIOS is quite a bit lower than what it is actually pushing. I would call that overvolting. :rolleyes: Phenom IIs are supposedly safe up to 1.5v with proper cooling.
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Do you have a link? I own the board and from dmm measurements this board has a small vdrop(bios set to idle actual). The vdrop is about 0.006-0.008v. Vdroop(idle to load) is another 0.006-0.008v. Pretty good voltage regulation and no overvolt. The cpu-nb is a different story. At load it does over volt a little about 0.018v. This may be different as these measurements were taken on earlier bios, but that's about the gist of it.
 
I'm thinking of going ahead with MSI 790FX-GD70. It seems like it has the future proofing I need of 4 PCI-E 2.0 slots.. just in-case those DX11 cards get nasty, i'll drop four 4890s into it.
 
I've been thinking about getting a GA-MA790FXT-UD5P to build a decent AMD system for a little while now. I really like my EP45-UD3P so Gigabyte may be getting my business in the near future. Asus is really good as I have built a lot of systems around their mobos. The last MSI board I used was back when socket 7 was popular....
 
Atl530i said:
I've been thinking about getting a GA-MA790FXT-UD5P to build a decent AMD system for a little while now. I really like my EP45-UD3P so Gigabyte may be getting my business in the near future. Asus is really good as I have built a lot of systems around their mobos. The last MSI board I used was back when socket 7 was popular....
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Another excellent motherboard. You really can't go wrong with any of the top offerings.
 
Is 1.9v ram okay? I read AM3 motherboards don't like high voltage ram?

I already have 8GBs of this stuff..
 
ToxicAdam said:
Is 1.9v ram okay? I read AM3 motherboards don't like high voltage ram?

I already have 8GBs of this stuff..
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1.9V is okay, AMD doesn't have a problem with high RAM voltage but low voltage RAM is better for future.
 
1.9v ram isn't a problem. 4 sticks of 1.9v ddr3 at 1600mhz or higher might be. I say might because I've seen some sticks work with no problems and others that work only with tweaking if at all.
 
I have 4 sticks, 2GB each of DDR3 1600 ram. ..

If I can get them to run at 1333 I'm cool. You guys don't think this will have any issues with the MSI board?
 
I don't think you will have any problem but using 4 sticks will limit your RAM speed compared to only two sticks.
 
Just ordered my new motherboard from newegg.

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