The Official PC building thread - 4th Edition

Russ, you quoted sam and yourself without a post :S

 

I know how that goes. I suffer the curse of being overly analytical. It's not uncommon for me to spend 4 hours just playing with my case wiring or 2 hours playing a game and the next 10 modding it. It's my weekend hobby :S Track of thought? What's that?

 

Oman7,

I have no idea how that happened. We had to go grocery shopping last night, and I never saved the post. I just shut down the computer and the PSU as always. I do not run any computer without someone being home, ever! Call me paranoid if you like, but I'll bet most people have never walked into a room just as the drapes burst into flames from a bad PSU.

Anyway, when I turned the computer back on, and went to AD, I had been previewing the post to Sam, to make a change when I shut the computer down, and apparently it saved the preview, because that's what popped up on the screen! I had no idea it could do that! Anyway, it's fixed. I still don't know how I got both quotes!

Russ

 

I'll forgive you this time LOL!

That'd be a real shocker to walk in as the drapes catch fire! I'd probably $h!t a brick LOL!

 

Oman7,

The amazing thing is I didn't panic. I got burned a little, but fortunately the room had a shower and bathroom in it. I dumped the burning drapes in the shower and turned on the water. I didn't even realize that I had been burned until it started to hurt, a bit later. Had it happened 10 minutes later, the house would have burned to the ground as it's all wood.

Russ

 

I'm going to wait until tonight to install my new Motherboard and memory as it's getting pretty warm out, and very humid. I'll have a much easier time with doing it if it's cooler out, as it's only in the 60s at night. Besides, my friend Dave will be here, so I'll have a little help. It takes me too long all by myself, as I can only work about 10 minutes before I have to sit down and rest for 15-20 minutes. LOL!!

Russ

 

Well you know what to do when you get finished then BenchMark time,Lol the differents between the DDR2 board and the new DDR3 you got...

 

N_3_Days,

I'm sure there is a big difference since the 990XA is 2011 tech and the 790x is 2008 tech. I'm really looking forward to it.

Best Regards,
Russ

 

arnt the 7xx to the 9xx sb practically the same?

 

Yup for the most part, you get DDR3, USB3 and SATA3 otherwise the same.

 

Shaff,

The difference is about 2% of the total bandwidth between the 9x1600 and the slower 7x1333 memory at stock speed.

Best Regards,
Russ

 

sorry Russ, i meant the southbridge, not ram speeds

 

Russ, do me a favor please, check your e-mail.

 

I found this wiki clip informative. Who knows how accurate it is though? I fail to see the difference from 850 to 950 though :S
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_chipsets

 

Shaff,

OK. Here's some info on all of AMD's chips.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_chipsets

Russ

 

seems the pull an nvidia and rename old tech into knew

 

I must admit, AMD do well and truly run from the nvidia book of customer confusion for chipsets. I have a pretty solid idea what chipset sits where in the product line as far back as Intel's 800 series for theirs, but AMDs are just completely baffling, with the vast array of southbridges used with the same northbridge, and tiny specification changes.

 

Ha ha russ. I beat you to it It is informative. I just hope it's accurate. Some people seem to think Wiki doesn't post the right information. Everything I've ever seen seemed to be accurate though.

 

It's not totally correct and that is typical of Wiki. For example I have the 880G-SB850 set and have PATA which Wiki say it doesn't exist. I don't have a seperate PATA controller chip so it has to be handled by my chipset. I also have a 1394 & FDD port but that isn't handled by the chipset and is handled by add-on chips like the ITE IT8720 & the T.I. TSB43AB23. Also I have seperate chips for Audio, SATA 2 and USB 3 (D720200).

More so my point would be that chipsets alone do not dictate all of your features on a given mainboard and you really have to look at the manufatures spec's to see the differences between platforms, of course.

 

Thanks man. Good info