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- Jul 28, 2012
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- USA
Looking to upgrade my motherboard to either of these two. The gigabyte is about 30 bux less
My problem is that I hate my motherboard (M4N98TD EVO) because it has no Sata III, No USB3 and no ability to upgrade my CPU at a later date (I'm currently happy with my CPU and I'm waiting to see what Steamroller is all about). The only thing I like about my motherboard is that OCing was a cakewalk..... My 1090T is running at 4GHz 100% stable and all I did was change the multiplier and up my CPU voltage to 1.50 (dumb vdroop on this board brings that down to 1.45). Didn't even touch my Bus speed.
Want a new board with all that the M4N is missing but I want to be able to hit that 4GHz mark with my 1090T just as easily as I did with my current board. Those two (Gigabyte 990fxa-ud5 vs SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0) have around the same amount of positive reviews on Newegg, more or less the same specs but if I could I'd rather save the $30 UNLESS the Sabertooth is better for what I want.
Any opinions? Thanks
Specs:
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @4GHZ
ASUS M4N98TD EVO
Corsair H80i Closed Loop Cooler
EVGA 2GB GTX 560TI 2 way SLI
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) SDRAM DDR3 1600
Windows 7 64
My problem is that I hate my motherboard (M4N98TD EVO) because it has no Sata III, No USB3 and no ability to upgrade my CPU at a later date (I'm currently happy with my CPU and I'm waiting to see what Steamroller is all about). The only thing I like about my motherboard is that OCing was a cakewalk..... My 1090T is running at 4GHz 100% stable and all I did was change the multiplier and up my CPU voltage to 1.50 (dumb vdroop on this board brings that down to 1.45). Didn't even touch my Bus speed.
Want a new board with all that the M4N is missing but I want to be able to hit that 4GHz mark with my 1090T just as easily as I did with my current board. Those two (Gigabyte 990fxa-ud5 vs SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0) have around the same amount of positive reviews on Newegg, more or less the same specs but if I could I'd rather save the $30 UNLESS the Sabertooth is better for what I want.
Any opinions? Thanks
Specs:
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @4GHZ
ASUS M4N98TD EVO
Corsair H80i Closed Loop Cooler
EVGA 2GB GTX 560TI 2 way SLI
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) SDRAM DDR3 1600
Windows 7 64