What motherboard would you recommend to go with the 4GB DDR3 1600 ram and AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition. I was originally going to get the GIGABYTE GA-890GPA-UD3H AM3 AMD 890GX to go with the
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Thuban 2.8GHz but decided the 965 BE would be better for gaming and havnt dicided to go with another motherboard.. I might just get this one because if you get any cheaper i cant do sli/crossfire in the future because the cheaper boards PCIe have 16x and x4 not 8x and 8x like this one (Im also pretty sure I want to go with a Gigabyte motherboard)
2nd question is can the motherboard i picked clock to 1600mhz with the ram or only "DDR3 1866 (OC)/1333/ 1066" like the specifications say
also I just wanted to kind of tell people what I was getting cause this is my frist time building a computer and just wanted some reassurance I was doing ok :]
so currently System specs are:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition
RAM: CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
MB: GIGABYTE GA-890GPA-UD3H AM3 AMD 890GX
GPU:MSI nVidia n260GTX
PSU:Vantec VAN-420A 420w (+ 3.3v 26A, +5v 42A, +12v 18a)
I realize the psu isnt that great and will upgrade it within a month or something. but it should be able to handle the things plugged in considering those things are the only things plugged in along with a 250gb hd.
as a side note I dont plan on overclocking until i get a new psu and might get a new cpu fan
ty for helping
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Thuban 2.8GHz but decided the 965 BE would be better for gaming and havnt dicided to go with another motherboard.. I might just get this one because if you get any cheaper i cant do sli/crossfire in the future because the cheaper boards PCIe have 16x and x4 not 8x and 8x like this one (Im also pretty sure I want to go with a Gigabyte motherboard)
2nd question is can the motherboard i picked clock to 1600mhz with the ram or only "DDR3 1866 (OC)/1333/ 1066" like the specifications say
also I just wanted to kind of tell people what I was getting cause this is my frist time building a computer and just wanted some reassurance I was doing ok :]
so currently System specs are:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition
RAM: CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
MB: GIGABYTE GA-890GPA-UD3H AM3 AMD 890GX
GPU:MSI nVidia n260GTX
PSU:Vantec VAN-420A 420w (+ 3.3v 26A, +5v 42A, +12v 18a)
I realize the psu isnt that great and will upgrade it within a month or something. but it should be able to handle the things plugged in considering those things are the only things plugged in along with a 250gb hd.
as a side note I dont plan on overclocking until i get a new psu and might get a new cpu fan
ty for helping