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Let's ponder the possibilities of me digging out my two Thuban 1045T CPUs and OCing them.
I've got one in an ASRock 990FX Extreme4, the other in some MSI AM2+ board. The one in the 990FX board was OCed from 2.7/3.2T to 3.51 (no turbo), at pretty-much stock 1.325V or 1.35V.
OS will be Win7 Pro, but would like to option of moving to Win10. UEFI support is a must.
Will likely not need SLI. Tried it out with a pair of GTX460 1GB OC cards on 990FX, and one of them was always running hotter than I like, and I was getting errors.
I'm tentatively going to say that I'll stick with ATX. Would like "beefy" VRMs, with cooling (heatsink).
May upgrade to 32GB DDR3 (4x8GB) on each rig.
GIGABYTE GA-990FX-Gaming AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA24G3UK3147
GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 Ultra (rev. 1.0) AM3+/AM3 AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Motherboards - AMD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128937
What's the difference between these two mobos, other than the price?
Edit: Seems that the main difference is the "Gaming" board has a Killer 2201 NIC. Don't want "Killer NIC", I like the option of being able to run alternative OSes.
I've got one in an ASRock 990FX Extreme4, the other in some MSI AM2+ board. The one in the 990FX board was OCed from 2.7/3.2T to 3.51 (no turbo), at pretty-much stock 1.325V or 1.35V.
OS will be Win7 Pro, but would like to option of moving to Win10. UEFI support is a must.
Will likely not need SLI. Tried it out with a pair of GTX460 1GB OC cards on 990FX, and one of them was always running hotter than I like, and I was getting errors.
I'm tentatively going to say that I'll stick with ATX. Would like "beefy" VRMs, with cooling (heatsink).
May upgrade to 32GB DDR3 (4x8GB) on each rig.
GIGABYTE GA-990FX-Gaming AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA24G3UK3147
GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3 Ultra (rev. 1.0) AM3+/AM3 AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 USB 3.0 ATX Motherboards - AMD
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128937
What's the difference between these two mobos, other than the price?
Edit: Seems that the main difference is the "Gaming" board has a Killer 2201 NIC. Don't want "Killer NIC", I like the option of being able to run alternative OSes.
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