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post #1 of 22
6/25/12 at 2:06am
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Hey guys, so Im looking at doing a motherboard upgrade to my rig for the purpose of sli and better over-clocking capabilities on my FX-6100. But my question is... Should I just go ahead and upgrade to a 990FX board or wait for Piledriver to come out and get one of the many new boards that are likely to come out along side it? Thanks!

(Note: Im not looking to upgrade to the Piledriver CPU just wondering about the situation Mobo-wise) thumb.gif
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post #2 of 22
6/25/12 at 2:26am
wait until Piledriver hits. What you have now is enough until then. My advice: wait. wink.gif
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post #3 of 22
6/25/12 at 2:49am
From what I currently know, the 10-series chipset which will most likely come along with Piledriver will have new features such as two 16x lanes for CrossFire (and I assume SLI), native USB 3.0, and more SATA 6Gb/s RAID controllers.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/AMD-1090FX-1070-SB1060-pcie-3,13918.html

If those aren't features of interest to you, the current 990FX is fine.thumb.gif
Edited by AbdullahG - 6/25/12 at 2:52am
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6/25/12 at 11:38am
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Cool thanks guys, anyone know when Piledriver is supposed to hit? I heard it was coming soon?
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post #5 of 22
6/25/12 at 11:39am
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Cool thanks guys, anyone know when Piledriver is supposed to hit? I heard it was coming soon?

It will enter production in Q3, so late Q4 2012.
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post #6 of 22
6/25/12 at 11:55am
Piledriver is design to run on the 9** chipset series.
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post #7 of 22
6/25/12 at 12:59pm
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Piledriver is design to run on the 9** chipset series.

Correct. There really is no need for the10-series chipset yet. Vishera/Piledriver will be evolutionary so I'm figuring ~15% improvement over the FX CPUs, which is a nice performance bump IMO.
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post #8 of 22
6/25/12 at 3:50pm
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Correct. There really is no need for the10-series chipset yet. Vishera/Piledriver will be evolutionary so I'm figuring ~15% improvement over the FX CPUs, which is a nice performance bump IMO.
Plus The only difference between the two so far is 1070FX has native USB 3.0 on it.
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6/25/12 at 7:27pm
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aw,man..what a bad pic I downloaded of that board..anyway..all I'd do if I was you would be to get a VRM sink for your board..it already has the holes for it..doooo eeet! thumb.gif They have them on newegg.Oh..and clock higher biggrin.gif
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post #10 of 22
6/27/12 at 2:52am
Personal opinion, a 990FX chipset is all you need to get really good overclocks with it at nice low voltages. Plus they're fun to overclock.

If you want a performance difference over your FX-6100 I would go back in time and get a Phenom II x6 and overclock that.

So my opinion, new board and overclock the FX-6100 to its max thumb.gif That's me though
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