AMD Motherboard Advice

[Koolpc]

A mate is after an AM2 motherboard (DVI) VGA

This a good one?

http://www.biostar-usa.com/app/en-us...t.php?S_ID=374

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Biost...-SATA-RAID-ATX

He only games now and again.

[staffsMike]

Yeah very good, good price too. The 790GX from memory is essentially an overclocked 780G with a couple of extra little bits

[Koolpc]

So, a good all round motherboard then?

[staffsMike]

Yeah probably the best chipset to go for right now as it offers great performance and upgrade options.

[Koolpc]

Thanks for your input mate

[Max Tractor]

I have the board it runs very well, the gxa2 has "On Board 64MB DDR2 Side-Port memory" I have ran dedicated graphics/onboard to power 3 monitors, big thread on this board over at the rebels haven

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

This J and W 790GX motherboard has 128mb of on-board GDDR3 so it is probably the fastest of its kind under £100:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/JandW...Board-Graphics

http://www.jwele.com/motherboard_detail.php?147

The Biostar has 64mb of GDDR2 instead.

[staffsMike]

Looks nice that

[Koolpc]

What is side-port memory

What use does it serve? Thanks

Also, never heard of Jwele. Are they a good company?

[staffsMike]

Very big chinese manafacturer with limited brand image over here. Should be fine although I've never tried one myself.

Side-port is dedicated memory for the itegrated graphics so your RAM is left alone.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

An HD3300 with 128mb of GDDR3 is the fastest integrated graphics solution currently available for socket AM2+ processors.

[Max Tractor]

Biostar TA790GX3-A2+ On Board 128MB DDR3 Side-Port memory, plus all solid caps

http://www.biostar-usa.com/app/en-us...n.php?S_ID=376

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Biost...-SATA-RAID-ATX

[pepsi_max2k]

>> What is side-port memory What use does it serve?

It's additional memory soley for use by the onboard graphics, instead of having to share regular system memory. http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...px?i=2269&p=17

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

The Biostar TA790GX A2+ is meant to be a poor overclocker:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/mother...TA790GX-A2-/p2

http://ixbtlabs.com/articles3/mainbo...-790gx-p3.html

Perhaps the Biostar TA790GX3-A2+ is better?? The J & W motherboard is meant to be a good overclocker. However if everything is being run at stock the slightly cheaper Biostar motherboard may do the job
The J & W motherboard does have esata and and optical out though. It also three PCI-E 16x slots and all solid capacitors.

[staffsMike]

Or if the chip you're getting/got is a black edition it doesn't make much difference due to the unlocked multi.

[Max Tractor]

The Biostar TA790GX A2+ is meant to be a poor overclocker:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/mother...TA790GX-A2-/p2

http://ixbtlabs.com/articles3/mainbo...-790gx-p3.html

Perhaps the Biostar TA790GX3-A2+ is better?? The J & W motherboard is meant to be a good overclocker. However if everything is being run at stock the slightly cheaper Biostar motherboard may do the job
The J & W motherboard does have esata and and optical out though. It also three PCI-E 16x slots and all solid capacitors.

These journalist really need a push at times, WR Jan 12 Biostar TA790GX A2+

http://www.rebelshavenforum.com/sis-...5;t=000332;p=2