The board is rated 95W. I'm currently using a Phenom II x4 955 in it and game performance seems to be suffering. Should I go grab a 945?
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9/15/12 at 4:25pm
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9/15/12 at 5:10pm
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ITX boards can't fit the phases and the amount of FETs needed to reliably push a processor that outputs 125W TDP.
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The chances are your motherboard is throttling back the power to your cpu causing bottle necking.
Yeah, I think this is happening. ASUS board so standard feature.
You could remove this problem with a processor undervolt (and underclock as necessary).
Socket FM2/Trinity APU will serve a much better platform for AMD on ITX. The Piledriver cores in the APUs are far more power efficient and they should provide comparable performance to Phenom II. It'll come out shortly, just wait for it.
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Instead of going in for the 945, why don't you keep that 955 and get a better board?
This would do just fine - http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=75286
This would do just fine - http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=75286
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If you look at what you spend on a new cpu is about what you need for a soild 4+1 or 6+1 phase board
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