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nForce 550 SE chipset vs AMD FX 790X/FX chipset

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Bradtechonline

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Aside from the fact that I could do Quad Crossfire *which I doubt I do*. Does anyone seen any performance gains made from upgrading my antiquated AM2 board up to a 790FX chipset mobo..
 
Originally posted by: IL2SturmovikPilot
Upgrading motherboards usually wield VERY small performance gains if any.
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QFT. The gains are new processor support and new technology, such as going from AGP to PCI-E or PCI-E 1.x to PCI-E 2.0. AGP to PCI-E is huge for the benefit of newer/better GPU availability, but otherwise no biggie.

With A64 chips, mostly performance across boards are pretty similar because of the IMC.
 
790FX boards run at 4w idle and 10w load...so they run very cool and consume less power compared to say the nforce chipsets. Also you get features like HT3.0, PCI-E 2.0, AMD Overdrive, Quad Crossfire, better Phenom support and in most cases better Overclockability. If those features don't affect you then theres no reason to upgrade- as has been said upgrading motherboards is usually for feature sets not 'performance gains' although there can be larger gains with things like HT3.0.
 
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