recommend a am3+ for a 965be

[RobTi]

Can i ask here instead of starting a new thread, if my son gets the gigabyte board with the 8 pin power socket is it better to go for a 4 pin to 8 pin adaptor or a molex to 8 pin adaptor

Thanks

Robert

[MrNeil]

Can i ask here instead of starting a new thread, if my son gets the gigabyte board with the 8 pin power socket is it better to go for a 4 pin to 8 pin adaptor or a molex to 8 pin adaptor

Thanks

Robert

If you dont want to overclock like me then the 4 pin board which i have is a very good budget no frills DDR3 board that is AM3+
Click on my specs to see what i have ! For me its bang for buck

[RobTi]

If you dont want to overclock like me then the 4 pin board which i have is a very good budget no frills DDR3 board that is AM3+
Click on my specs to see what i have ! For me its bang for buck

Thanks for the reply but he would like to mildly overclock this and I wouldn't want to have him get yours and regret it later on.

That's the thing I don't have the time to research at the moment so have to take what I am told as gospel as to which board to go for

Robert

[scaryjim]

You should be able to use the 4pin connector in the 8 pin socket - with a mild overclock that should be fine. The 8 pin is only really necessary for high TDP CPUs with big overclocks where they need huge amounts of current. The 4 pin connector should fit into one half of the 8 pin socket and the board should run fine with it.

[RobTi]

Thanks had to do that with my ip35 & Q6600 years back

[Pob255]

I just want to point out a few things here, more phases does not always mean better, it often means cheaper weaker chips, if they are weak enough it could be worse.
Generally more is better because they are not that much weaker so they are often better.

The Asus M5A97 is 4+1, the asus M5A97 Pro or EVO is 6+2 digital
The gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 is 8+2, all the other gigabyte GA-970A-x are 4+1

digital vs analogue, now this is not the actual MOFETs that supply the current but the PWM controller and regulation chip, there's a good article here http://sinhardware.com/index.php/vrm...vs-analog-pwms
The advantages of a digital VRM for motherboards are a more stable and accurate voltage feed, better load balancing across the MOFETs
This means that in idle/low load times it will actually turn off pairs of unneeded MOFETs to save power, where as an analogue PWM treats all the MOFETs as a single unit.
When overclocking it can provide a more stable and continuous voltage with less fluctuation and ripple.
The down side to a digital VRM is reaction speed, as the demand changes a digital VRM has a slight delay while it calculates how to best balance the load, we are talking a very slight delay that will not affect normal operation but has the potential to cause stability issues with highly overclocked cpu's as the demand fluctuates.

I'll say I'm really happy with my asus M5A99X EVO although I'll admit that I've still not got around to overclocking on it yet.
It does have ton of overclocking options and settings in the BIOS so many that it's a bit confusing, however it does have the very good asus auto tune, which is still the best automatic overclocking system AFAIK