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neiluk
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 Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 9:35 am Post subject: Which AMD chipset / motherboard to buy? |
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Hi, i'm in the process of upgrading my pc... and i am noth sure which of 2 Asus motherboards to buy. Both boards have different chipsets.... one has a Hudson D2 chipset, and the other has a 960G. Are chipset differences important to me?!?!?! My pc is used for a variety of things, including some gaming, office use, internet, and some video processing etc.
The rest of my pc components are...
quad core AMD
1GB Radeon 5770
2 x 4GB DDr3
2 x 1TB drives
etc
I'll be honest, chipsets baffle me! Am i worrying over nothing?
Any help would be greatly appreciated - thanks guys!
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neiluk
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 11:23 am Post subject: update.... |
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The two choices I am tied between are....
ASUS F1A55-M LX with an AMD A6 3650 FM1 X4 Quad Core
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ASUS M5A78L-M LX Motherboard with an AMD Phenom X4 965 Quad Core 3.4GHz |
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Mr T
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 11:25 am Post subject: |
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Welcome to the motherboards.org....
What boards you looking at? The AMD series of motherboards start at 970, not 960, unless there is a new one on the way....
What CPU is it that you are intending to use? AM2, AM3, FM1...?
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Mr T
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Both good CPU's, the FM1 has an inbuilt GPU and a slower 'speed' that the 965, but it is newer and FM1 seems to be the way AMD are heading on the socket front... The 965 is old, but a tried and tested wortwhile CPU, it is probably the better all rounder...
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neiluk
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Hi - thank you 
So, as I don't really need the feature of an inbuilt GPU, I should probably go for the 965 and take advantage of it's all-round speedier performance?
Regards
Neil
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ps. I had a ZX81 also.... I remember the days of...
10) if a>5 then gosub etc etc lol |
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10) FASTMODE
Don't forget to PEEK and POKE....
ZX81..
Forgotten it all... Did a lot of machine code... Once you could add and subtract, then you could multiply and divide.... 
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