Good OC MB

[will1080]

Did not end up buying the mb waiting for socket h.

[neo mike]

I currently own the Gigabyte 790FX UD5P pretty good overclocking board, does what i ask of it.

[V0id]

The 790XT-UD4P from Gigabyte has treated me well. For a mid range board it has unlocking features and overclocks well. Unlocked my 550BE to all 4 cores and will see it up to 3850MHz while it's still a dual core.

Other users also rate the GD70 from MSI but I have no personal experience with it.

[zalbard]

I'd go with MSI myself, seems to be the best board around.

[chew*]

I'd go with MSI myself, seems to be the best board around.

This one died with only water cooling......4 hours total time on the board.

[Gurr]

^ My friend has that board. He has had a 720be + 2x2 mushkin ddr3 ram [not sure which set] at a 25% overclock for the past 8 months.

Runs like a charm still.

[chew*]

^ My friend has that board. He has had a 720be + 2x2 mushkin ddr3 ram [not sure which set] at a 25% overclock for the past 8 months.

Runs like a charm still.

a 720 BE will be hard pressed to tax the PWM.

[freeloader]

Video card....really can't beat the Radeon 5770 (anywhere from 160 CDN to 190 CDN). It has Direct X 11 support and is just as fast as a 4870 (+/- a few %'s in certain games).

Personally I like Gigabyte mobos for AMD builds. Haven't had a single one die yet...of course I'm not as hard on them as Chew is.

[Archer0915]

My best boards have been cheap ones Biostar T-Force usually work great and are great Ref clockers.

[TheBlueChanell]

This one died with only water cooling......4 hours total time on the board.

You said yourself thought that this board felt weaker compared to others of it's kind. I myself have pushed my board pretty hard during bench sessions and all is well so far.

Though you're kinda making me rethink getting a NB waterblock. ;D

[will1080]

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[chew*]

You said yourself thought that this board felt weaker compared to others of it's kind. I myself have pushed my board pretty hard during bench sessions and all is well so far.

Though you're kinda making me rethink getting a NB waterblock. ;D

Yep thats what it felt like.

The million dollar question is why was it weaker, and what actually blew up if it wasn't a mosfet.

Granted prime blend at 4240 is stressfull......but then again I tossed same chip in gigabyte and pulled off a 4250 prime blend.

I totally expect boards to die under ln2.......they just aren't built for that, air and water this should not be an issue, couple that with the fact that this is on a bench rig with multiple fans cooling everything......I would muster a guess that in a stifled case with not as much airflow that it would have died even sooner.

I still like the boards.......but unlike zalbard I will not lay claims that any board is better than the rest.

I will say XXX board is really good at this and that. That said if shooting for a nice mild OC, I really like the performance and layout of the msi. If pushing the extremes I would avoid it.

[Zeus]

I still like my second Crosshair III Formula, the first one i owned was just as good.

Nice and stable, good voltages and nice bios options.

Also like the tweak it function a lot!

[Glow9]

Yep thats what it felt like.

The million dollar question is why was it weaker, and what actually blew up if it wasn't a mosfet.

Did you replace it with the Gigabyte 790FX?

[chew*]

Did you replace it with the Gigabyte 790FX?

Ummm, why replace it with a giga? I already have a giga on bench station 1.

Just whipped out another MSI for bench station 2......Asus is on bench station 3 atm but thats the "cold" bench and changes daily.

[TheBlueChanell]

Ummm, why replace it with a giga? I already have a giga on bench station 1.

Just whipped out another MSI for bench station 2......Asus is on bench station 3 atm but thats the "cold" bench and changes daily.

different weapons of choice for each task at hand.

[chew*]

different weapons of choice for each task at hand.

There is a right tool for everything

[TheBlueChanell]

There is a right tool for everything

I am excited to get my new waterloop up and a c3 to see what it can do. I hope the GD70 does me well because I purchased it with water in mind. My girlfriend and I are going to Europe to visit her family for a couple of weeks in December and I'm going to order the anfi-tech mosfet block for my board while I'm there and than hopefully get it all up and running when I return.

and then on to the giga and cold.

[Oese]

take a look at current DFI offerings as well. The DK 790FXB-M3H5 is very nice, if u want to go a bit cheaper, u can look at the JR 790gx-m3h5 or even the BI 785g-m35. All overclock and perform similar, just differ in size, features and therefore price...