Recommendation for a board for 1055T

[jihe]

After seeing the PPD output of a x6 I got myself a 1055T for a cheap folding rig. I am looking for a motherboard but I have been on 775 for too long to know the current state of AMD chipsets and boards. I need (in order of importance) 1. DDR2 boards (have many sticks of 1G DDR2's, don't want to buy DDR3). 2. Overclocks well (300 FSB so I can take the 1055 to 4G, also needs to be stable since it will be 100% load 24/7. Maybe mosfet heatsinks?) 3. Cheap (don't need anything fancy like integrated graphics or raid) Any suggestions?

 

[RedShirt]

I'd suggest an Asus M3N78-VM

It's the only board I could find that supports 140 watt processors and DDR2. I know you didn't ask for the 140W support, but it'd be nice to know you could drop in a more power hungry chip later.

I don't know about overclocking and this board. It's hard to be picky with DDR2 boards, as the majority of the bios support seems to be for newer DDR3 motherboards.

It's on Asus's supported list (may need to flash bios).

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...pk=Asus%208200

If you don't care about 140W support (as your chip is 125W) another nice board is the MSI 770T-C45

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...0&Tpk=770T-C45

MSI's list of supported mobos:

http://event.msi.com/mb/amd/6core/

Asus's list of supported mobos:

http://event.asus.com/mb/2010/m4_6cores/

Biostar has a few boards out there for cheap that are DDR2 and support x6 chips, but most have only 2 dimm slots. I'm assuming you want more than 2 slots, but if not, you may want to look at their options.

 

[jchu14]

I ordered the Asus M4A77D for my 1055t. Ewiz has it for $60.54 after 10MIR and coupon code 'ilovemom'. A couple bucks cheaper if you stack bing cashback.

It's AMD 770/SB710, 140w support, 4 ram slots, full ATX size, and has good sized NB heatsink. Decent reviews on Newegg I'll let you know how it overclocks when it gets in tmrw. Though I won't have my aftermarket heatsink til Friday.

EDIT: oh a couple of drawbacks I read: only 2 fan headers on the whole motherboard,and the front panel connector i located awkwardly

 

[jihe]

I ordered the Asus M4A77D for my 1055t. Ewiz has it for $60.54 after 10MIR and coupon code 'ilovemom'. A couple bucks cheaper if you stack bing cashback.

It's AMD 770/SB710, 140w support, 4 ram slots, full ATX size, and has good sized NB heatsink. Decent reviews on Newegg I'll let you know how it overclocks when it gets in tmrw. Though I won't have my aftermarket heatsink til Friday.

EDIT: oh a couple of drawbacks I read: only 2 fan headers on the whole motherboard,and the front panel connector i located awkwardly

Thanks for that!

 

[Vette73]

Seems many are getting this board to run the 6core but uses DDR2 and also has the higher end 790X - SB710 chipset

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130265


http://eu.msi.com/index.php?func=proddesc&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=171&prod_no=1916


Newegg and some others say its a DDR2 board but MSI's site says DDR3 so may not work? If it is DDR2 then it would be good. Reviews of people that own the board say DDR2 so it should be a great cheapish board.

 

[WildW]

I have the M4A77D . . . rock solid stable so far, but having a cpu with an unlocked multi I haven't had to bother pushing the FSB too high. The bios has all the overclocking options you'd expect, so far a very good cheapish board.

 

[Markfw]

My 1090T is on a MA770T-UD3P, its $80 and works fine. Not sure how well it would do with the high FSB required for a 1055T.

 

[jchu14]

Got my Asus M4A77D!

The mobo booted right up out of the box, identified the 1055t as uknown AMD processor. No need to find another processor to flash bios!

Bios 0403 10/21/2009. Props to Asus to have a bios that could boot this processor on such an old bios!

 

[jchu14]

I am having issue disabling CnQ. So Jihe, you should probably avoid this board if you were intending on disabling CnQ.

 

[jihe]

I am having issue disabling CnQ. So Jihe, you should probably avoid this board if you were intending on disabling CnQ.

How high can you take your 1055 with CnQ?

 

[mv2devnull]

Bios 0403 10/21/2009. Props to Asus to have a bios that could boot this processor on such an old bios!

And they [the INET] say you could not do so ...

Asus did release version 2004 last month. Could it help with the CnQ?

My M4A77 is waiting for the 95W models.

 

[jchu14]

How high can you take your 1055 with CnQ?

I only managed to get to about 3.6GHz. 3.7GHz required more voltage than I am comfortable with using the stock cooler. Even with 1.45v, I could get LinX stable at 3.7Ghz with turbo-core off. I am pretty sure I am not HTT/FSB limited since upping the north bridge voltage did not improve.

Currently I am experimenting with turbo-core. I can get stable at 3.36Ghz pre-boost and 3.96 post-boost with stock voltage + 0.25v. This would suggest that I am TDP limited. I am not sure if it's the board or my power supply (430w).

And they [the INET] say you could not do so ...

Asus did release version 2004 last month. Could it help with the CnQ?

My M4A77 is waiting for the 95W models.

Yea I didn't expect it. I was planning on borrowing my buddy's CPU to flash the bios, but I figured that I should try booting it first. The first thing I did was flash to the most current bios, so the CnQ bug is there.

 

[jihe]

I only managed to get to about 3.6GHz. 3.7GHz required more voltage than I am comfortable with using the stock cooler. Even with 1.45v, I could get LinX stable at 3.7Ghz with turbo-core off. I am pretty sure I am not HTT/FSB limited since upping the north bridge voltage did not improve.

Currently I am experimenting with turbo-core. I can get stable at 3.36Ghz pre-boost and 3.96 post-boost with stock voltage + 0.25v. This would suggest that I am TDP limited. I am not sure if it's the board or my power supply (430w).



Yea I didn't expect it. I was planning on borrowing my buddy's CPU to flash the bios, but I figured that I should try booting it first. The first thing I did was flash to the most current bios, so the CnQ bug is there.

thanks for the info, much appreciated.

 

[jchu14]

I only managed to get to about 3.6GHz. 3.7GHz required more voltage than I am comfortable with using the stock cooler. Even with 1.45v, I could NOT get LinX stable at 3.7Ghz with turbo-core off. I am pretty sure I am not HTT/FSB limited since upping the north bridge voltage did not improve.

Currently I am experimenting with turbo-core. I can get stable at 3.36Ghz pre-boost and 3.96 post-boost with stock voltage + 0.025v . This would suggest that I am TDP limited. I am not sure if it's the board or my power supply (430w).

Ah a couple of typos, it was late. Sry.