What is the south chip of a motherboard?

[not you]

Hello

I have been reading reviews about the asus maximus viii hero
And someone said he had one with deffective southbridge and that it had terrible onboard audio
I would like to know if his audio was messed up because he had a deffective southbridge or thoes have nothing to do with each other?

Thank you for your help

 

[mcnumpty23]

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-chipsets/3/

 

[Exeonx]

The south bridge is connected with the internal audio card, but I don't know how much it affects it, obviously someone could have had a defective model, Dunno I own the MAximus VIII hero and I have no problems at all, in fact my audio quality has improved quite a bit vs my old Z77 motherboard.

So if you're looking to buy, I wouldn't look further, the Maximus Hero is one of the best price-quality motherboards out there, and it's definitly recommended for Ocing

 

[not you]

So it was bcs of the faulty southbridge
On that site it says the southbridge controlls the onboard audio
Thank you 😀

 

[mcnumpty23]

you are welcome

 

[not you]

But the gigabyte z170 gaming 7 has a bit more
Intel +killer nik
2 m.2 slots
Dual bios
Pcie metal shielding
Quadcore audio
Turbo b-clock
(Hdmi 2.0)
And it costs the same :/
The thing is i still would like to buy asus even thou it doesnt seem like a clever move this is my first chanse to own a rog thats why i dont know 😀

 

[mcnumpty23]

m2 is the way forward in my opinion so more than one m2 slot on my next motherboard is a must have

and need to check carefully if the m2 is 10Gbs or 32Gbs

 

[not you]

32 gbps both (giga and asus)
Just giga has 2 of it asus has 1

 

[mcnumpty23]

i have looked a fair bit as trying to talk myself into upgrading to skylake but my current set up is still pretty good so cant quite pull the trigger on upgrade

my 3 choices were gigabyte z170 gaming 7,asus deluxe or asrock overclock formula

asrock being interesting as some of their boards are sporting 3 m2 slots

 

[not you]

I dont really like asrock boards i had bad experience with them
The asus deluxe is too expensive for me
My a6 5400k is quiet good even on stock speed but i think it just might lack a bit behind an i7 6700k if you know what i mean xD
You know its not that big of a cpu upgrade next to my new high end gpu but i think it will do 😀

 

[mcnumpty23]

gigabyte z170 gaming 7 may be your best choice in that price bracket

i am still on a 4/5 year old 2600k heavily overclocked

and to be honest other than boot support for an m2 this still cuts it today--cpus just havent advanced hugely in the last 5 years like gpus have

 

[not you]

So? Are you saying the a6 5400k is fine next to a gtx titan or 980 ti?

 

[mcnumpty23]

not certain as havent used amd cpus in a long time so dont know if there would be a bottleneck

my 2600k is probably a better cpu than the a6 5400k with both at stock speeds

but i am running over 5ghz overclock

 

[not you]

My mobo cant really oc it gets too hot :/

 

[not you]

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-2600K-vs-AMD-A6-5400K-APU/621vsm4113
Haha xD

 

[mcnumpty23]

lol and thats before you do this to it

 

[not you]

Erm... Thats asus stuff 😵
Is it good?

That comparison didnt seem like a fair one the i7 2600k was like 200% better in everything :/

 

[mcnumpty23]

i like asus boards

but had no complaints with gigabyte boards i have used either

 

[not you]

5ghz very nice 😀 my a6 overheated when i wanted to go for 3.8 even lol :/
I was on stock cooler now for the i7 6700k they didnt include a cooler so i had to buy the raijintek triton liquid cooler :/

 

[mcnumpty23]

the raijintek triton isnt bad as AIO go--looks good too

but damn those fans are loud

those need replacing with a couple of decent pwm fans

 

[not you]

I think the fans are fine on reasonable speeds but i have some noctua fans if i need to replace them 😉
My complain is that its a bit too fragile (as i saw in user reviews) im afraid i will break it 😛