Hi i have been looking on the asus site for a new AM3+ board for my htpc and am lost as to what all the different types mean, is there anywhere that explains them
Robert
Hi i have been looking on the asus site for a new AM3+ board for my htpc and am lost as to what all the different types mean, is there anywhere that explains them
Robert
How do you mean "types"? Do you mean different chipsets, or sizes...?
760,880,990x,990fx and so on also it doesn't have to be asus just wondering what they all mean
Robert
wikipedia usually does a really good table. It has usually been my first point fo call.
760G - old but cheap chipset with acceptable graphics for light media use but not much more besides. Very few bells and whistles. Not particularly good for overclocking.
880G - more recent chipset with slightly better onboard graphics - can just about play skyrim 1080p at lowest settings (no, I didn't believe it either, but my stepson insists it's fine). A decent well-balanced chipset with some overclocking features and reasonable graphics.
990X - reasonable entry-level overclocking/enthusiast board. x8/x8 crossfire, NO integrated graphics, generally decent feature-set
990FX - top end enthusiasts board, usually have lots of overclocking features and bells and whilstles.
But if this is for a HTPC, why are you going AM3+? An FM1/Llano combination would be my recommendation in that situation...
Thanks for the reply only asking about AM3+ as I had the 250 CPU spare.
So what fm1/ llano would you recommend, I play hd's and blu rips and have a dual sat card so can be recording 2 channels and streaming a video from the server at the same time
Robert
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