Msi 990fxa-gd80

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05-19-2011, 05:23 AM
onethreehill

Msi 990fxa-gd80

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05-19-2011, 05:41 AM
flexcore

What's up with the memory support? It lists anything over 1333 as OC.
05-19-2011, 05:46 AM
marten_larsson

140W? There are no current CPUs from AMD with that TDP, right?
05-19-2011, 05:51 AM
almighty15

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Originally Posted by marten_larsson

140W? There are no current CPUs from AMD with that TDP, right?

Pretty sure some of the Phenom 2 x6 chips do :confused:
05-19-2011, 05:54 AM
spicypixel

Quote:

Originally Posted by almighty15

Pretty sure some of the Phenom 2 x6 chips do :confused:

Nope
05-19-2011, 06:17 AM
neliz

Quote:

Originally Posted by spicypixel

Nope

Random 140W suspect:
Phenom II X4 965: http://products.amd.com/en-na/Deskto...il.aspx?id=591
05-19-2011, 06:29 AM
Chrono Detector

The board looks nice, but features are kinda lacking, especially for a FX board, 6 SATA ports only? 1 LAN port? And needs more USB3 ports as well.
05-19-2011, 06:37 AM
Lightman

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chrono Detector

The board looks nice, but features are kinda lacking, especially for a FX board, 6 SATA ports only? 1 LAN port? And needs more USB3 ports as well.

It's 6 SATA 3.0 and 2 eSATA 2.0 so 8 in total.
05-19-2011, 06:49 AM
blindbox

Where do you get 8 GB sticks?
05-19-2011, 07:18 AM
FlanK3r

Sabertooth looks better. And here old mount kit behind socket :(
05-19-2011, 07:34 AM
xsuperbgx

Did they change this motherboard's power section enough to fix the issues that the 790 and 890 gd70's had?
05-19-2011, 07:44 AM
xsuperbgx

Also, it looks like they got rid of the buttons/knob to overclock,except the o/c genie one (which is worthles IMO.)
05-19-2011, 07:51 AM
jawallace49

When I do my upgrading for this year, I am going with this motherboard and for my cpu is going be FX8130P.
05-19-2011, 08:28 AM
SubZero.it

Looks nice...so this one that should has been the Big Bang (as the first leaks some time ago said) version has moved down to the GD80 level. So we can expect another high end mobo from MSI...though that PWM looks awesome
05-19-2011, 09:06 AM
generics_user

Quote:

Originally Posted by flexcore

What's up with the memory support? It lists anything over 1333 as OC.

copy/paste from 890FX specs
05-19-2011, 09:20 AM
eXa

I like it:
Staggered dim slots.
First PCIe is 1x and second is 16x (just like i want my soundcard and gfx to be put).
NB heatsink does not interfere with the PCIe 1x device.
All angeled SATA(tho should have been 8).
Only 1 pci slot (tho 0 would have been better).
No ide and floppy!
Seemes to have an reset CMOS button on the backside.

All in all, very good. Not perfect (for me), but close enough :)
05-19-2011, 09:22 AM
DarthShader

Wonder how they got that 248% performance boost with OC Genie. Swapping CPUs between tests is cheating! :D
05-19-2011, 11:48 AM
Apokalipse

248% of 3.2GHz is ~8GHz
When have we seen that on AMD?
05-19-2011, 11:53 AM
El Mano

Bulldozer looks promising but the motherboards are quite disappointing.
05-19-2011, 12:05 PM
Manicdan

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarthShader

Wonder how they got that 248% performance boost with OC Genie. Swapping CPUs between tests is cheating! :D

Quote:

Originally Posted by Apokalipse

248% of 3.2GHz is ~8GHz
When have we seen that on AMD?

its the unlocking feature + overclocking that gives them 200+%

converting a slow duel to a fast quad is basically what they are saying
05-19-2011, 12:10 PM
VulgarHandle

Quote:

Originally Posted by eXa

I like it:
Staggered dim slots.

dim slots aren't staggered, just 2 of the clips are in open positions
05-19-2011, 12:11 PM
BatteryOperated

Quote:

Originally Posted by El Maño

Bulldozer looks promising...

What exactly has led you to believe this?

And please tell me it is more than "LOLZ A|\/|D R0X0RZ LOLZ!"
05-19-2011, 01:06 PM
demonkevy666

this is the only board that has 4 pci-express slots ?....
you know the UD7 AM3 from gigabyte was such a nice board, but then it became such a rare board so fast :/
05-19-2011, 01:08 PM
Apokalipse

Quote:

Originally Posted by BatteryOperated

What exactly has led you to believe this?

Probably a combination of a lot of things, which doesn't really need to be explained given that it already has been.

Quote:

Originally Posted by BatteryOperated

And please tell me it is more than "LOLZ A|\/|D R0X0RZ LOLZ!"

Yes it is more than that. And you're not exactly making a useful comment.

I believe his actual point was along the lines of "it's a shame to see such a good CPU not having the benifit of better boards"
05-19-2011, 01:16 PM
MrMojoZ

I think this line up of boards is looking pretty good compared to whats been available for AMD in the past few years. Maybe its because I won't spend $300 on a board so my qualifications are different as to what constitutes "good".
05-19-2011, 01:22 PM
Manicdan

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrMojoZ

I think this line up of boards is looking pretty good compared to whats been available for AMD in the past few years. Maybe its because I won't spend $300 on a board so my qualifications are different as to what constitutes "good".

agreed

for <150$ you can get almost any feature you will need, for 200$+ you get those extra bits of overclocking tools that will not really make too much of a difference for daily users.
05-19-2011, 06:44 PM
eXa

Quote:

Originally Posted by VulgarHandle

dim slots aren't staggered, just 2 of the clips are in open positions

Hmm is staggered the wrong word?

Its black, blue, black, blue, and not black, black, blue, blue. So when using 2 sticks there is some room between the 2 sticks.
05-19-2011, 06:59 PM
bamtan2

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrMojoZ

I think this line up of boards is looking pretty good compared to whats been available for AMD in the past few years. Maybe its because I won't spend $300 on a board so my qualifications are different as to what constitutes "good".

its fine, but when you have the best chipset (990fx) for the best chip (bulldozer) with the most pcie lanes you've ever heard of (40), some will expect all the goodies they can fit :-)
05-20-2011, 12:27 AM
TheLostSwede

This is the Big Bang Conqueror that MSI showed off back at CES, they just decided to call it something else
05-20-2011, 12:57 AM
generics_user

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheLostSwede

This is the Big Bang Conqueror that MSI showed off back at CES, they just decided to call it something else

maybe they decided to make another higher end board :shrug:
05-20-2011, 01:25 AM
Oliverda

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheLostSwede

This is the Big Bang Conqueror that MSI showed off back at CES, they just decided to call it something else

Hopefully we'll see the Big Bang Conqueror as an even higher level AM3+ mobo.:D
05-20-2011, 03:24 AM
rintamarotta

Quote:

Originally Posted by BatteryOperated

What exactly has led you to believe this?

And please tell me it is more than "LOLZ A|\/|D R0X0RZ LOLZ!"

Someone has BD ES, someone has 990FX motherboard, someone is saying its good :)
05-20-2011, 12:44 PM
Darakian

Didn't the big bang have a lucid chip on it?
05-20-2011, 01:07 PM
AbortRetryFail?

Quote:

Originally Posted by bamtan2

its fine, but when you have the best chipset (990fx) for the best chip (bulldozer) with the most pcie lanes you've ever heard of (40), some will expect all the goodies they can fit :-)

I think it's 42

38 lanes off the NB with 4 lanes to the sb.
05-20-2011, 01:29 PM
undone

Quote:

Originally Posted by rintamarotta

Someone has BD ES, someone has 990FX motherboard, someone is saying its good :)

how to define "good" here? better performance per dollar? or top of the performance? or just be better than its ancestor?:D
05-20-2011, 03:10 PM
neliz

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheLostSwede

This is the Big Bang Conqueror that MSI showed off back at CES, they just decided to call it something else

C'mon Lars, don't be so negative!

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