Re: Mobo for Phenom II 550 - suggestions?
 

Not seen nowadays but used to be very common. I used to always use intel chipsets with my AMD CPUs as they always seemed to perform faster on the memory benchmarks.

Re: Mobo for Phenom II 550 - suggestions?
 

The reviews I've seen mark the Phenom II 550 as being AM3 - and a possible x2 to X4 unlock with a suitable motherboard and some luck in getting one that unlocks well.

Re: Mobo for Phenom II 550 - suggestions?
 

Sorry, what does that mean?

Re: Mobo for Phenom II 550 - suggestions?
 

My reply or what I wrote about my system?
In the reply, the post by tizmeinnit is saying about how the second board is based off an nvidia nforce chipset while he prefers to use a amd based chipset with amd set-ups unless you want to use two nvidia gpu's in sli.
The vrms are what deliver power to components and the ones in question deliver power to the cpu cores, cpu-northbridge etc. If these are low quality and you have a cpu which draws a lot of power your board will die.
And the last line I have a gigabyte 990xa-ud3 motherboard which allowed my phenom ii x4 965 to be overclocked to 4.1GHz on the core and 2.8GHz on the cpu-northbridge. My motherboard also has full support for upcomming Bulldozer based "FX" cpu's that amd are briging out shortly and in the 9x0 series amd added support for nvidias sli.

If you want to unlock don't get a 9x0 chipset board .

Re: Mobo for Phenom II 550 - suggestions?
 

OK, thanks, no interest in overclocking so I think I should be OK.

What I'm thinking of getting is:

• Phenom X2 550 (already got)
• Asus M4A87TD EVO 870 Socket AM3
• Crucial 128GB 2.5" M4 SSD
• WD 2 TB drive (already got)
• Kingston 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1333MHz HyperX Blu Memory Kit CL9 1.5V
• Be Quiet EP 600W or Be Quiet Straight Power E8 600W

and turning it from my spare PC into my main PC.

Re: Mobo for Phenom II 550 - suggestions?
 

You got a Gpu?

Re: Mobo for Phenom II 550 - suggestions?
 

Yes, ATI 4670

Re: Mobo for Phenom II 550 - suggestions?
 

I was hinting at ditching AMD altogether ;)

Re: Mobo for Phenom II 550 - suggestions?
 

In a thread called ??? ;)

Re: Mobo for Phenom II 550 - suggestions?
 

Yes.

You should also see how many times I've suggested people get rid of the superhub in "How do I get a Superhub" threads.

Re: Mobo for Phenom II 550 - suggestions?
 

:D

Re: Mobo for Phenom II 550 - suggestions?
 

I would not buy the crucial SSD I have the Agilty 120 myself

Re: Mobo for Phenom II 550 - suggestions?
 

Any particular reason for not getting the Crucial? I heard the OCZ had some reliability problems. I don't mind paying £12 more if it gets me better reliability, and a free 8Gb :)

If it's just speed, I'm pretty sure even the slowest SSD is going to seem astonishingly fast to me :shocked:

Re: Mobo for Phenom II 550 - suggestions?
 

My Agility shipped with the newest firmware. Updating is very easy and I myself have had no issue with the drive

Re: Mobo for Phenom II 550 - suggestions?
 

Yea thing with ssd's is the fast feeling of them is the same no matter the speed because they all have tiny access times and that's what makes programs start instantly etc. So unless you are transferring files from one ssd to another speed makes little difference.