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No reviews, just buyer feedback on newegg and amazon, for example. I have 1 TB Seagate internal and external drives, but the external is really just an internal SATA drive with a USB adapter and a crappy plastic enclosure. I figured they were all internal drives, really. Me too. The 80...

I get the feeling reading reviews from several different online retailers that large capacity (read 1 TB and above) HDDs have a significantly higher failure rate compared to those with lower capacity. I've got a 1 TB Seagate external drive that is starting to worry me. I'm wondering who...

+ 1 for this board. I built my current desktop around this about a week ago and am running Windows 7 64 bit. I transferred several internal 3 Gb/s SATA HDDs and my Phenom II X4 955 from a DFI LP UT 790FX M2R (running Windows XP SP3) to this Asrock board. I'm sure there are a number of...

Looks like its already been posted. My bad.

2 triple cores and a quad. :D How do you think these prices will translate to USD?

+1 AMD should be careful marketing this chipset as part of the Spider platform. These boards are for HTPCs and pair absolutely perfectly with a 45W BE (not black edition) processor.

I would get yourself that 5000+ BE since the price is dirt cheap for the performance you get out of it, and then pick yourself up a board with one of AMD's most recent chipsets (790FX, 770, 740G, etc. - these are all AM2+ boards). Then upgrade your cpu when 45 nm quads come out. As for AM3...

Dude, at least link to some porn or something. That's just mean...

Make sure you are using the latest AOD, 2.0.17 before you decide it doesn't work. That being said, brisbane temp sensors are notorious for just flat out NOT WORKING! Also, the 5000+ BE is rated at 1.35V. Unless you adjusted the cpu voltage intentionally, I would lower it a bit. This should...

I know, it's Fuad, but it's still an interesting prospect. If it's pulled into Q3, I bet it will be here before Shanghai.

I get the feeling this is exactly what they're doing. Heat, power, and size ended up being bigger issues than were expected, I think. I bet 45 nm will be on time (by X-mas, anyways), and this will be when we start seeing real volumes and varieties of quad core AMD cpus.

Any board with the 790FX chipset is an AM2+ board, the folks at newegg are just dumbasses. They'd probably sell more of them if they'd just put it in the right place. Go ahead and get an AM2+ board so you can take advantage of the extra bandwidth when you drop a 45 nm quad core in at the end...

I can't be sure about AM2/Phenom compatibility with AMD Overdrive, but you might be able to disable the TLB fix on your current system this way. Apparently, there's a way to disable the fix through CrystalCPU as well.

The M3A32-MVP was one of the 1st 790FX boards released, and none of those boards had the TLB fix in their original BIOS. So unless the newer boards are shipping with more current BIOS revisions, they won't have the fix either. Even if they do, both the BIOS and AMD Overdrive give you the...

80-90 degrees C under load is pretty standard without manually changing fan speeds or installing an aftermarket heatsink.

I put an old PCCooler SVC-737CU on mine and dropped the temps at least 30 degrees C under load. I think part of that is just uncovering the card and letting air get to it, that plastic cover over the sink just sits there and traps heat if the fan isn't really running, and it's not! golfjam...

I was hitting 80 degrees under load with my Diamond HD3870, so I took this aftermarket cooler I had on my X1650 Pro and used it on my 3870. It's dimensions are roughly the same as the vf900, and it mounted easily with aboslutely no issues at all. It doesn't get anywhere near the RAM sinks, so...

I read somewhere MSRP was gonna be right around $400 USD, a good deal cheaper than 2 3870s but not 2 for the price of 1. It would still be a good buy even at this price point.

Man, don't forget about the Gigabyte GA-MA69GM-S2H! And typically, turning off the onboard video is a as simple as uninstalling the driver and changing one setting in the BIOS.

Sorry, memory runs fine at 2.0 V @ DDR2 800. Phenom supports 1066, but X2s only support 800. I bought the memory in anticipation of higher speed Phenoms coming out sooner or later. The reason I was concerned about the memory voltage was because of a forum thread I read somewhere with some...

I've got 2 GB Crucial Ballistix 1066 MHz DDR2 running on a DFI LP UT 790FX-M2R with an X2 5000+ black edition, and BIOS default settings set the memory voltage to 2.0 V. However, the memory is spec'd to run at 2.2 V. So when I manually set the DRAM voltage to 2.2 V and then run memtest86, I...

Well, got the board in and everything's been up and running for about 17 hrs now. I haven't really stressed it yet, but as it is everything seems pretty stable. Had a few random reboots earlier, but things have been running beautifully for a good 9 hrs now. I'm getting ready to do some...

@ Pepsi and alg7, were you guys flashing from a floppy?

Thanks, Pharaoh. Sounds good. Do you have any idea what happened to the board that you RMA'd?

UPS tracking says it will be here Wednesday, I'm pairing it with a 5000+ black edition, 2 GB Crucial Ballistix PC2 8500, and a Diamond HD3870. Until it gets here, a quick question. I want to install XP Pro on a new HDD and make the master HDD from my old rig a slave on my new one. Will it be...

Do a google search for larabee, this is the code name of the gpu for their upcoming discrete graphics cards. I've heard it mentioned at least since Computex back in June.

You sure, man? Newegg's got the 9500 in stock right now, just pull the trigger! :D

C'mon now. :D Just curious though, is anyone planning on picking up either of these? I'm curious about the difference in crossfire performance between these 2 boards. You've got a full 32 PCIe lanes devoted to 2 cards on the 790FX vs 16 on the 790X. But the 16 PCIe2.0 lanes on the 790X...

Pretty sure you watched the FX board. :rolleyes: The Gigabyte 790X has been $169.99 since Newegg posted it maybe a week or so ago. :rolleyes:

Glow, that's not the 790FX Gigabyte board. The 790X has always been priced $100 cheaper. Jesus, people. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: 790FX vs 790X

In all honesty people, let's think about this. Phenom's performance likely will not come close to pynryn in terms of gaming, but AMD will price their processors competitively per their usual routine and AM2 owners as well as some others on a budget will buy these chips. However, since...

This is truly beautiful, Monstronix is selling it for $162! :D

No doubt! Considering Newegg is selling the Gigabyte 790FX board for $269, this makes the choice all too easy. I can see it shaping up now: MSI K9A2 platinum + 2 GB 1066 MHz DDR2 + HD3870 + 5000+ black edition (until higher clocked Phenoms are released) ;)

You're looking at the Nvidia nForce 590 chipset. Here are 4 boards from Asus and Abit that should do just fine. The 590 chipset gives you 32 PCIe lanes for SLI, but if these prices are too high then look at the nForce 570 chipset. These boards will be cheaper, but SLI is at x8 and x8 on them.

My favorite is the 3DMark06 CPU benchmark. The numbers show the 790FX setup scoring all of 41 points more than the nForce590 setup (1869 to 1828), but the bar graph itself is just a tad exaggerated! :D

The IMC on AM3 processors will support both DDR2 and DDR3 memory, so these cpus will be backward compatible with the AM2 and AM2+ sockets. However, AM2 and AM2+ cpus will not work on AM3 boards b/c of the DDR3 memory. I've also read that the release of the AM3 socket should coincide fairly...

Phenom pricing

Well, S***! Guess we'll have to wait till the 19th after all.

Add this SOYO 790FX board to the list.

Looks like you can purchase the Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe anytime your ready, it's only $219. I've got a feeling that places like the egg and ZZF might even sell it a bit cheaper. :D