Any good AMD mobos for Black Edition CPUs?

[perdomot]

Thinking of building a rig based around a BE 5000+ cpu to be OC'd to 3 Ghz and wanted some opinions. Only need 1 vid card slot and it would be great if it supports Phenom cpus for future upgrade path. Not too expensive either as I don't need a lot of extras. Thanks.

 

[Replay]

Edit: 1st sticky post in this forum has lots of mobo information.

I'd wait for the 780G boards to show in a month, and consider an X2-4000 Brisbane.

http://my.ocworkbench.com/bbs/...hp?p=425958#post425958
http://www.hothardware.com/Art..._CrossFire_Sneak_Peak/
http://my.ocworkbench.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=70247

Getting 3100 Mhz+ prime95 stable with 0.100 vcore bump to 1.400V from both x2-4000 Brisbane chips which came from a Nov. Newegg ram combo deal. Using the popular htpc uATX GA-MA69GM-S2H. Has hidden OC bios options <Ctrl + F1>, but no voltage options unless you flash a modified bios (likely modded from the ATX version of the same board). Phenom AM2+ chips will run on newest bios, although not at the new AM2+ HT bus spec.

 

[perdomot]

I did check the sticky but most atx mobos listed are SLI types which I don't need. The 780G mobos look promising but I have a 7600GT card running in my rig and see no need to upgrade that any time soon.

 

[taltamir]

the processor he was looking at is the x2-5000 brisbane black edition (unlocked multiplier). IT makes a lot more sense then the 4000...

 

[996GT2]

Most of the midrange and up nForce 500 and 600 series boards should overclock pretty well. For example, even my MSI K9N Platinum Rev 1.0 (one of the first AM2 boards ever released) will do a stable 290HTT on my X2 3600+, which only has a 9.5x multi. With your unlocked multi, 2.8+ GHz shouldn't be hard with any decent board from one of the big makers like MSI, Asus, etc.

 

[Sylvanas]

You might want to see my mini review of the MSI K9A2 Platinum (RD790FX) with my 5000+ Black edition here this board would be my recommendation 🙂.

 

[perdomot]

I'll have to check MSI and see what they have. Used them in the past and they were good mobos.

 

[Replay]

Originally posted by: taltamir
the processor he was looking at is the x2-5000 brisbane black edition (unlocked multiplier). IT makes a lot more sense then the 4000...

So why would the 2600 MHz X2-5000BE make a better choice for a new build?

The X2-4000 Brisbane core also OC's like crazy, and has the same cache memory, at half the price.

The B.E. unlocked multiplier is a joke, a marketing gimmick. You don't need it on a good board. This isn't an 8x Intel Conroe Core chip where an unlocked multi would actually help reach the maximum overclock. I'd buy a Black Edition if it had more cache, but it doesn't.

Overclock the X2-4000, and use the $50 savings toward upgrading the video or other components.

Sweet 3100 Mhz+ from both of my 2100 MHz X2-4000 Brisbane chips (BH-G1, prime95 stable, on air, with 0.100 VCore bump to 1.400V). Getting 3156 MHz from one and 3173 from the other.