Suggestions for mobo for my new AMD chip

[thecoffeeguy]

Decided to get the following AMD chip:

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Deneb 3.2ghz 4 x 412kb L2 Cache 6mb L3 cache
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103808

Looking for a motherboard and was wondering if this would be a good fit:

ASRock
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157198

I am not going to do any OC'ing. Will be buying DDR3 memory (not sure on speed yet).
Will have two, maybe three HD's in the system as well as a DVD burner.

EDIT: Found some memory. What about these two:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231277

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820211409

I believe the memory above would work with the above mobo?

Mostly a gaming rig (90%).


Just wanted some feedback and suggestions.
Thanks.

TCG

 

[maevinj]

I actually just ordered that same Asrock board (SHould be here Thursday) after my Gigabyte ga-870a-ud3 lost all the memory slots but slot 4. It's on RMA but I'll be selling it as soon as it's back in
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128443

. I'm using the same Gskill memory in your first link. I think my MOBO took out one module when it died (slot 3). Gskill RMA is really quick. I had my new memory module in a week!
I'll let you know how mine goes if you're interested.

 

[xd_1771]

This. Some of the best memory for AMD IMO; I use them, run them at quite a bit higher voltage than rated (1.6v over 1.35) and they still run ice cool. Plus, the 1600 CAS7 settings really up the performance on AMD (1600 CAS6-7 is where you're looking to be at for RAM performance )
As for the motherboard, if you don't plan any OC-ing and will be using just one video card, a 770 or 870 chipset will do (heck even with OC-ing they hold up quite well). If you're running multiple graphics cards a 790X or 890GX will suit you, unless you wish to go full with the FX chipset motherboard. Try Gigabyte, ASRock is a fairly budget brand and not a very good one either.

This would be a fairly good board.
Actually come to think of it considering the features on that ASRock board for the price it's probably actually fairly good.

 

[thecoffeeguy]

Thanks guys. Appreciate the feedback.
Going to be buying these parts here this week.
Last piece of the puzzle I am going to need is a cooler for my CPU.

Many thanks.
Cheers.

 

[Rifter]

Thanks guys. Appreciate the feedback.
Going to be buying these parts here this week.
Last piece of the puzzle I am going to need is a cooler for my CPU.

Many thanks.
Cheers.

if you are not overclocking just get the cheapest cooler you can find with a PWM 120mm fan, then it will be quiet.

 

[thecoffeeguy]

if you are not overclocking just get the cheapest cooler you can find with a PWM 120mm fan, then it will be quiet.

Any coolers you recommend? I dont want a big honking cooler in there (hehe...bad experiences in the past), but something that does a good job of cooling.

I looked at that corsair H50 cooler and it looked interesting. Looked "reasonably" easy to install as well.

Thx

 

[Rifter]

the H50 would be great.

Im running a H70 on my HTPC and it was very east to install and does an excellent job, its cooling a Athlon II X4 635 that's currently running at 3.8Ghz but can do 4 and keeping it under 60c.

For stock clocks up to moderate OC'ing the H50 would do a very good job.

However you could also save some cash and grab a AC freezer 7 or coolermaster hyper 212+ for $20 and call it a day.

 

[thecoffeeguy]

So I have been wavering here...the board I was going to buy was on sale and I missed it. Oh well.

So was looking at these boards:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007625&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&ShowDeactivatedMark=False&CompareItemList=22|13-131-647^13-131-647-TS%2C13-128-444^13-128-444-TS%2C13-131-654^13-131-654-TS%2C13-131-657^13-131-657-TS

Which will be paired with this CPU:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103809

Outside of that, thats it. Have 4gigs DDR3 memory picked out.

Thanks