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  1. 06-09-2008, 09:38 AM #1
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    replacement AMD motherboard.

    Ok my ageing 580x board is having some bios troubles and ASUS did not provide a good bios for almost a year... (latest 6 month old release has a HT multiplier LOCK at 5x!)

    I went from a single ocz gold gb stick and a 3800+ X2 to a 5000+ G2 and 4x1gb sticks ocz 1066 (sli branded) memory which works just fine.
    So as I upgraded the whole system except the mobo it is time for it to go.

    Another build may be intel again so another thread may be opened for that in a few months.



    Ok priorities.

    -I don't want it to be too expensive and rather have a sub $100 motherboard.

    -I can ONLY order from www.zipzoomfly.com due to my location. regrettably NO other website..

    -I prefer, or better yet, require all solid caps (!) on the motherboard for reliability purposes... (we have a lot of power issues on the island, I suspect the brown outs/black outs to have taken the toll on the mobo/hdd's)

    -I also would like the latest gen chipset, if possible with the 780g just incase the system might become a low wattage powersaver box in the future using the igp w/o the powerhogging 8800gts (we pay $0.30 US$ kWh).

    -would like a manufacturer that releases regular stable and good overclocking bios releases for my black edition 5000+.

    Focus is also on later possible phenom upgradability.

    Any specific boards u guys would recommend?


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  2. 06-11-2008, 12:28 AM #2
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    I'd say hang on for a couple of weeks, there should be a "new " wave of motherboards from different companies coming out


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  3. 06-11-2008, 12:55 AM #3
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    This ASRock 780a board is supposedly very good, I have from reliable sources (KTE). It handles 125w TDP Phenoms and have great powersaving features. Price currently at around 150$ but probably going down quickly.
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  4. 06-11-2008, 05:21 AM #4
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    Don't worry about the solid caps so much. Bad power is an issue for a PSU, UPS, and/or line conditioner to solve. But honestly, most switching power supplies could care less about what the input power looks like. It could be a friggin square wave for all they care.
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