KamuiRSX

Okay updating with more new information.

I've bought the motherboard, Foxconn A79A-S, so I'm good in that department.

I've bought this RAM G. Skill 4GB DDR2 1066. I bought 8GB's of it from eBay for $40 each still new (I love eBay sometimes). Here's hoping for some good OC's out of them.

I've already got monitors and I'll end up swapping my keyboard and mouse to my new system and hooking up one of my PS2 keyboards and mice to my current rig upon swapping.

I've decided that I'll end up buying 2 CPU's this time around. One will be the 3.0Ghz or 3.2Ghz that I want and the FX-82 4.4Ghz so I've gotta save up another grand just for that FX-82. I just pray that it will be a Socket AM2+/Socket AM3 and not a special socket F like the FX-74.

Now to find someone to talk Watercooling with and figure out what I need to make it awesome. I'm also going to toy with the idea of getting a Rocketfish case as well for modding in case the Armor+ doesn't have the room I need for an extensive watercooling setup.

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ChrisB17

How do you like the new foxconn board? Im thinking about buying it soon.

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By-Tor

The new Asus M3A79-T MB's are now on the egg with the new SB750 chipset...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131339

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sgdude

$5 more for a 9950 be
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103273

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ChrisB17

Can anyone confirm if the foxconn board can support the 9950be?

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KamuiRSX

If you buy it, make sure you buy an extended crossfire bridge on eBay because it only comes with a normal size one and the 2 x16 by x16 crossfire require the longer bridge. I have to admit that I've grown accustomed to Gigabyte's BIOS screen so this one was a bit new to me. I dropped my 6400+ BE in it for a few to try out the AMD Overdrive utility for OC'ing and got to 3.6 stable. It actually seems really stable and solid IMO but I've not put a phenom in it yet.

I found a 9950 BE here in town that no one seems to know is a 9950BE so I'll try and buy it tomorrow at the auction and if I get it I'll try it out and post some results for you. I dunno if it works or not, unfortunately, Foxconn doesn't have a CPU support list on their site that I can find.

http://www.foxconnchannel.com/produc...D=en-us0000401

On a positive note though, it's $200 on ZZF right now

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...09147&ref=lmcd

Just make sure you look at the difference between all the features to make sure you're getting what you want. Personally, I don't like ASUS but that's just me.

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ChrisB17

Yea please lmk if the 9950 works in the board. Anandtech got it to work and oced it to 3.4ghz or somthing like that.

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KamuiRSX

I will do so for ya.

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ChrisB17

Thanks man.

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ChrisB17

Anything yet on the 9950 working with this board?

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