Any problem overclocking 1055t with AMD 760g northbridge?

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jchu14

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I am in the process of picking out a motherboard to go with the 1055t which has a locked multiplier.

I am considering GIGABYTE GA-MA78LM-S2H with AMD 760g and SB710.

I've read somewhere that my overclock will be HTT limited by the chipset, and I will have better luck o/c with the new 890 series. Is that true? I'll be using Patriot Extreme DDR2 800mhz that I've had no problem running at 1000+ Mhz.

If so, I might go with the GIGABYTE GA-890XA-UD3. Then I'll go ahead and make the jump to DDR3. USB3 and Sata3 are nice too, but I try to avoid buying features that I don't have a need for. I intend to upgrade to Sata3/DDR3 when RAM and Sata3 SSDs prices comes down a bit.

Overclocking Phenoms seems so much more difficult than overclocking my old core2duo!

Thanks for the help
-Jeff
 
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Make sure your board first supports the new CPU. Then make sure where you buy it from either will flash the BIOS for you to the latest (some places do this for a fee) or that your system will be functional (with an X6) until such time as you can flash it yourself.

HTT is not really dependant on chipset at all anymore- that was the days of FSB. The Memory controller and other clock planes are all done on the CPU itself, all the motherboard chipset does is communicate with the various peripherals of your board using the HyperTransport link (way more bandwidth than is needed). I'd go the 890GX as it's the latest and will likely have best compatibility and circuitry tailored for use with X6's in mind (perhaps more robust power delivery design, when 780g's first released they had trouble keeping up with feeding 125w and 140w CPUs- many articles on this).
 
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hans007

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the 760/780/785/880/885/790gx/880gx are all basically teh same chipset.

or revisions of the same. the 760/780 dont have DX10.1 and only have DX10 and uvd1 vs 2. but I think really the ability to overclock should be pretty similar.

I agree with the other guy that you should be more concerned with your max tdp.
 
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jchu14

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Great! Thanks guys.

Gigabyte's website lists the board as supporting 125watt CPUs, but doesn't list 140watt cpus. Hm, maybe I will try to get a board that has explicit support for 140watt. Gigabyte implemented support for the X6s since a 3/16 bios update. Hopefully it'll come with the new bios, or I can use my friend's cpu to update the bios.

After selling my old board/cpu, this Thuban itch will only cost me about $50!
 
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jchu14 said:
I've decided to go with
http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=...TX-Motherboard

AMD 770/SB710. This has 140watt processor support, 2 more ram slots, more pci slots, and firewire for $5 more than the Gigabyte after MIR/BCB/"LADYBUG10" coupon code.

Thanks to everyone's warning on socket TDP limitations!

-Jeff
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There has not been any 140W CPUs since the Phenom 9950 which like all Phenom 1 CPUs was terrible. Don't worry about 140w support it means nothing these days anyway (plus when you OC a CPU it's power draw goes well beyond 140W). AMD did well with Thuban because they engineered it to fit in the 125w envelope so all you really should look for is a decent board with Thuban support. Sorry I didn't make this clear in my last post. Anyway your selection is fine nonetheless- Gigabyte, Asus, MSI will all have quality products and similar support.
 
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I would just buy the 1090, run it at stock on your current mainboard and be done with it.

Whatever board you buy you won't be getting much past 3.5 GHz because the 1050 has a low multiplier.
 
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hans007

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Sylvanas said:
There has not been any 140W CPUs since the Phenom 9950 which like all Phenom 1 CPUs was terrible. Don't worry about 140w support it means nothing these days anyway (plus when you OC a CPU it's power draw goes well beyond 140W). AMD did well with Thuban because they engineered it to fit in the 125w envelope so all you really should look for is a decent board with Thuban support. Sorry I didn't make this clear in my last post. Anyway your selection is fine nonetheless- Gigabyte, Asus, MSI will all have quality products and similar support.
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not true. the phenom II 965 C2 stepping was also 140W. A board that is 140W certified is just more likely to have beefier VRMs to handle that much much higher wattage (and yes its going to be much higher than 140W regardless).

Some boards only supports 95W cpus, and you can probably run 125 W cpus on them but will be really straining their cheaper voltage circuits. 140W boards are almost guaranteed to have 4 phase voltage not 3, so its worth it to get it if you really do intend to overclock a high end AMD chip.
 
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Phil1977

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Over here in australia on overclockers forum people allready sell their 1050s and buy 1090s because they run into HT limits.

I do believe paying the premium is worth it because you get a black edition cpu and better binned silicon.
 
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