MSI 890GXm board + Piledriver CPU?

[superccs]

The board has an AM3 socket that has BIOS support for current FX CPUs... which we all know are not worth upgrading to from a OC'd X6 1055T.

If Piledrive drops some good performance numbers, would that board be able to run it well? Or would you miss out on some turbo and power switching functionality.


Anyone running a bullzoer on this board (or very similar) with some feedback to offer would be appreciated.

 

[Durvelle27]

i will say 9 series chipset board will be your best bet ?as anything below 9 already limits FX

 

[nenforcer]

well the turbo boost from the base clock for the new FX-8350 is only 200MHz, from 4.0 GHz to 4.2GHz which speaks volumes about the clock speed improvements they were able to make while keeping the same power envelope.

You could live with out the turbo clock for 8 cores I imagine but the power phase improvements would be a bit of a loss. (especially when idling or under full load)

I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for a 1090FX chipset with PCI-E 3.0 support but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[inf64]

We have no clue about starting clock and Turbo clock for FX8350(if it even ends up having that model number). All we have are some vague rumors.
As for the board,it may not be the best for Vishera but if it supports FX81xx I see no reason why it shouldn't work with Vishera.

 

[superccs]

Man I am hoping someone running a AM3+ CPU on a AM3 board could chime in and provide some prospective.

Durvell, I can't find any differences between the 890 and 990 chipsets with teh exception of hypertransport 3.1

 

[Durvelle27]

Man I am hoping someone running a AM3+ CPU on a AM3 board could chime in and provide some prospective.

Durvell, I can't find any differences between the 890 and 990 chipsets with teh exception of hypertransport 3.1

one limitation is you want be able to run memory above 1600MHz without a 9 series AM3+ board as it would be very unstable even if manually set.

 

[pantsaregood]

one limitation is you want be able to run memory above 1600MHz without a 9 series AM3+ board as it would be very unstable even if manually set.

I may be wrong, but memory instability is usually a problem associated with the IMC. If the IMC is designed to handle faster RAM, it shouldn't cause any stability issues.

That said, faster RAM isn't really of any benefit. Neither is PCI-E 3.0. Bandwidth sounds great until you realize how little of it you use.

AGP 8x, for example, provides enough bandwidth for all modern GPUs in most cases. Dual-GPU cards get bottlenecked by it at higher resolutions. Memory bandwidth is equally as bad at boosting performance.

 

[Magic Carpet]

The board has an AM3 socket that has BIOS support for current FX CPUs... which we all know are not worth upgrading to from a OC'd X6 1055T.

If Piledrive drops some good performance numbers, would that board be able to run it well? Or would you miss out on some turbo and power switching functionality.


Anyone running a bullzoer on this board (or very similar) with some feedback to offer would be appreciated.

MSI won't bother adding Piledriver support to your board. Mark my words.