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Bubblehead Nuke · 05-10-09, 04:15 PM

I don't know about the lack of bells and whistles thing.

I recently built a new AMD system. Here is a rundown of the basics:

Biostar TA790GX XE motherboard
AMD 7750 BE dual core
4 gigs of G-Skill 1066 memory.

I use the onboard graphics (HD3300) and it is pretty dang good. It is better than the Nvidia 7600GS I was using in the old build. I went cheap becuase I was transitioning out of AGP and such and I do not have a lot of the more modern hardware around. I needed a board that had on-board graphics that were usable. It was so good I have decided to forstall the graphics card purchase till I really need it. I was able to play everything before on the old rig, and on the new rig things are even better. The moral, do not discount on-board graphics. They have come a LONG way from the intel days. One caveat: Makes SURE that you get a motherboard with the 'Sideport' memory.

Anyway, I have overclocked the 7750 to 3.5Ghz with no problems. With the 750 southbridge (using ACC) I was able to active the 2 other cores in the 7750BE. Granted, with all 4 cores going I had to back the clock down to 2.6Ghz to keep things stable. I use the BIOS CPU profiles to keep my setting staright. I can boot and choose what I need for proccessing power.

I would say that this Biostar is an enthusist board. Granted, I made a decision to NOT have dual PCI-e slots, but I figure if I need to, I can always get a X2 card.

I have also played around with a few other makes of boards that use the 790gx/700 or 750 southbridge. I was greatly impressed with all of them. If Asrock had a uATX board available w/sideport, I would have purchased that one first.

05-10-09, 04:15 PM	#6
Bubblehead Nuke XO Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 435 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I don't know about the lack of bells and whistles thing. I recently built a new AMD system. Here is a rundown of the basics: Biostar TA790GX XE motherboard AMD 7750 BE dual core 4 gigs of G-Skill 1066 memory. I use the onboard graphics (HD3300) and it is pretty dang good. It is better than the Nvidia 7600GS I was using in the old build. I went cheap becuase I was transitioning out of AGP and such and I do not have a lot of the more modern hardware around. I needed a board that had on-board graphics that were usable. It was so good I have decided to forstall the graphics card purchase till I really need it. I was able to play everything before on the old rig, and on the new rig things are even better. The moral, do not discount on-board graphics. They have come a LONG way from the intel days. One caveat: Makes SURE that you get a motherboard with the 'Sideport' memory. Anyway, I have overclocked the 7750 to 3.5Ghz with no problems. With the 750 southbridge (using ACC) I was able to active the 2 other cores in the 7750BE. Granted, with all 4 cores going I had to back the clock down to 2.6Ghz to keep things stable. I use the BIOS CPU profiles to keep my setting staright. I can boot and choose what I need for proccessing power. I would say that this Biostar is an enthusist board. Granted, I made a decision to NOT have dual PCI-e slots, but I figure if I need to, I can always get a X2 card. I have also played around with a few other makes of boards that use the 790gx/700 or 750 southbridge. I was greatly impressed with all of them. If Asrock had a uATX board available w/sideport, I would have purchased that one first.