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Old 11-09-2011, 10:42   #19
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Re: Mobo for Phenom II 550 - suggestions?

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Originally Posted by cookie_365 View Post
Sorry, what does that mean?
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.

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Originally Posted by Matth View Post
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.
If you want to unlock don't get a 9x0 chipset board .
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