this is the mother board iv been using http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130290
North bridge AMD 770
South bridge AMD SB710
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131767
Northbridge AMD 970
Southbridge AMD SB950
Would i see a noticeable diffidence?
would it be worth to upgrade?
In terms of performance at
In terms of performance at stock clocks, not much difference to right home about. Only if you have a nice SSD or a device that runs out of bandwidth on USB2.0 would you notice a difference.
However, MSI boards are known to have exploding MOSFETs due to their sub-standard el-cheapo 'fets they use in their AMD mainboards...in combination with no heatsinks and too few power-phases for the job. The combination is fets that are undercooled, suffer thermal-runaway, and pop-sizzle-smoke-fire-fried motherboard and possibly CPU. This is doubly true under overclocking and/or being paired with a Thuban CPU.
However, MSI boards are known to have exploding MOSFETs due to their sub-standard el-cheapo 'fets they use in their AMD mainboards...in combination with no heatsinks and too few power-phases for the job. The combination is fets that are undercooled, suffer thermal-runaway, and pop-sizzle-smoke-fire-fried motherboard and possibly CPU. This is doubly true under overclocking and/or being paired with a Thuban CPU.
Thanks for sharing the
Thanks for sharing the information with us i hope in future you also updated us.
Just to expand upon what was
Just to expand upon what was said about MSI motherboards, here is a great resource for those reading this thread:
http://www.overclock.net/amd-cpus/943109-about-vrms-mosfets-motherboard-safety-125w.html
it has a clear list of all the motherboard failures reported, and 75% of that list is MSI.
http://www.overclock.net/amd-cpus/943109-about-vrms-mosfets-motherboard-safety-125w.html
it has a clear list of all the motherboard failures reported, and 75% of that list is MSI.
I actually just made a
I actually just made a similar upgrade from that SAME motherboard you're using now. This is the mobo I went with: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157243
It's the same price as the one you showed ($100). It's Sata 6gb / AM3+ / USB 3.0. Best of all it's got two PCIE slots so you can crossfire/SLI if you decide you want to do that. I'd say it's a worthwhile upgrade, especially if you're thinking about an SSD.
It's the same price as the one you showed ($100). It's Sata 6gb / AM3+ / USB 3.0. Best of all it's got two PCIE slots so you can crossfire/SLI if you decide you want to do that. I'd say it's a worthwhile upgrade, especially if you're thinking about an SSD.
kevinf wrote:Just to expand
Just to expand upon what was said about MSI motherboards, here is a great resource for those reading this thread:
http://www.overclock.net/amd-cpus/943109-about-vrms-mosfets-motherboard-safety-125w.html
it has a clear list of all the motherboard failures reported, and 75% of that list is MSI.
Thanks for this thread and your post ! glad i signed up in this forum because this explains a lot to me as to what the difference in quality are.
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