http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131406

much nicer mobo at a slightly higher price. you get an integrated graphics card so if your video card decides to die one day you wont be forced to go out and buy one or live without a computer.

here's an even cheaper one havent looked at it thoroughly enough to tell the difference
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131595

oh second one doesnt support your ram speed

FragKrag

United States11567 Posts

April 11 2010 06:02 GMT

#25

The Gigabyte is cheaper once you take in account the mail in rebate + it has USB 3.0 (which is most likely useless, but whatever) and SATA 6gb/s (which is useless). IGPs are useless anyways, and you wouldn't want to be stuck with using one imo.

The cheaper one uses DDR2

mahnini

United States6862 Posts

April 11 2010 06:12 GMT

#26

for $5 more you get a fairly high end model instead of some second fiddle board and a contingency plan if your video card craps out (gotta be prepared!) but the differences between the two are not that large. though i don't see 1600mhz ram being listed as supported on the gigabyte board even though it can support higher i'd try to find out for sure if it's compatible with the ram you are also ordering.

FragKrag

United States11567 Posts

April 11 2010 06:16 GMT

#27

huh

how is the 785 high end? It's just the 770 + IGP.

mahnini

United States6862 Posts

April 11 2010 06:24 GMT

#28

the 785 is built on a newer design process so i'd imagine it'd be more efficient, however slight. i didn't see that the gigabyte had usb 3 and sata 6gb/s support, however, so i'd actually go with that over what i posted. again, i would check the ram to be sure!

FragKrag

United States11567 Posts

April 11 2010 06:29 GMT

#29

well, from what I read, the board locks the timings down anyways so there shouldn't be a problem. While the 785 is a newer design process, I doubt there was much changed, and it is like the 790X to 790GX. There really isn't much of a difference at all, and in terms of power efficiency, I think it would be affected more by the designs of the companies themselves.

mahnini

United States6862 Posts

April 11 2010 06:38 GMT

#30

the northbridge of the 785g is actually designed differently from the 770 and given equal feature sets and such, this would be something to consider. unfortunately for me, the gigabyte has a superior feature set so any advantages the 785g has (very slight) is negligible when weighing it against new hardware interfaces.

BroOd

Austin10833 Posts

April 11 2010 06:43 GMT

#31

On April 11 2010 15:24 mahnini wrote:
i would check the ram to be sure!

how can i check to make sure?

FragKrag

United States11567 Posts

April 11 2010 06:47 GMT

#32

go to the RAM manufacturer's website and see if that RAM supports that motherboard (or maybe go to the motherboard's manufacturer's website and see if that motherboard supports that RAM).

I think I remember DDR3 Ripjaws being fully compatible with AM3 though.

mahnini

United States6862 Posts

April 11 2010 06:50 GMT

#33

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ClassValue=Motherboard&ProductID=3272&ProductName=GA-770TA-UD3

i did some poking around on the manufacturer site but it doesn't list support for 1600. i would just search around and see if people have issues with it on other forums aka just googling "gigabyte 770ta 1600mhz ram" and other similar combos till you get definite results.

by the way, didn't phenom ii's not like 1600mhz ram or have they fixed that with the new revision?

in the board reviews on newegg people are saying they have to manually change it to 1600 through the BIOS and it runs fine so it shouldn't be a big issue.