Hey guys, i was able to sell my 9950 since i couldn't find a decently priced motherboard to work with it. Now Im looking for a 720 BE and a motherboard to go along with said cpu. Between a Gigabyte MA78GM-S2H and a Zotac 750a which is better at hitting higher clocks? the 720BE is on a list of supported cpus for the 750a chipset. but im having trouble looking for a review with it using a Phenom II. I've seen a couple reviews of the 750a chipset on older phenoms but those dont' clock as well.
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MA78GM-S2H or Zotac 750a?
- Thread starter chinky714
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Zotac is a newbie in the motherboard mfg arena. I would go with the established company. I think you will find better support resources although none of the companies are really good in that area. Have you considered this one?:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157149
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157149
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how is the asrock in terms of overclocking? The board seems nice except the placement of the 24pin power, it seems like it would get in the way of my heatsink if I use a larger one? I want to go with 720 and i want to be able to clock it to atleast same performance or better than the Q6600 in my sig.
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Out of those two I would go with the Gigabyte.
Personally I would be looking at these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157154
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138137
Both of these have the SB710 southbridge which supports ACC (meaning you might have a chance of unlocking the 4th core).
I like the voltage regulators on the ASRock 780GMH (much better than the FullHD for $5 more) they look pretty beefy for a $70 board, like its been designed for the quad cores.
Personally I would be looking at these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157154
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138137
Both of these have the SB710 southbridge which supports ACC (meaning you might have a chance of unlocking the 4th core).
I like the voltage regulators on the ASRock 780GMH (much better than the FullHD for $5 more) they look pretty beefy for a $70 board, like its been designed for the quad cores.
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the asrock looks very good and the price is competitive. How do the asrocks clock though? i remember them not being that great on intel cpus.
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Since this board is very new there aren't that many results out, but ASRock's AMD boards are generally pretty decent as far as having the necessary bios features for overclocking (especially for the price).
This post indicates that it can indeed unlock the 4th core and overclock decently:
http://my.ocworkbench.com/bbs/showthread.php?p=445138#post445138
This post indicates that it can indeed unlock the 4th core and overclock decently:
http://my.ocworkbench.com/bbs/showthread.php?p=445138#post445138
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Several reviewers of the FullHD board I suggested stated it had abundant overclocking options. By the way, the price just went up on that board so the price differential between the 780GMH and the FullHD was more than $5 when I ordered it. One thing you need to know is that ASRock is a division of Asus. Another thing you need to factor in is that ASRock does not offer end users a warranty. They only warranty boards for their retailers, e.g. NewEgg. Egg has a 30 day return/exchange warranty on motherboards so if you go with ASRock, don't put off the install and check it out thoroughly within that time. To tell you the truth though, even with the companies that offer warranties to end users for their boards, they are generally so difficult to deal with that in my opinion its almost not worth anything.
