Will this board support the Phenom x4?

**Vakas** · January 22nd, 2009, 09:15 AM

I have changed my mind instead of the 9950 I want to get the phenom II 920 hioefully on tuesday

**Vakas** · January 22nd, 2009, 09:29 AM

Will this PSU run fine with the Phenom II this is one I am currently using:

http://jeantech.com/storm.htm

**NooNoo** · January 22nd, 2009, 10:07 AM

Antec says running just the phenom II will require 130w psu... have a look here it's the rest of the stuff that causes the problems

**Vakas** · January 24th, 2009, 05:21 PM

SOmeone told me to run the Phenom II I need a psu that runs 30 Amps on a rail so will the one I got do the job?

**Vakas** · January 24th, 2009, 08:44 PM

How do the Phenom 2 processors compre to the quad core intel ones and the i7

**NooNoo** · January 25th, 2009, 02:56 AM

Originally Posted by Vakas

How do the Phenom 2 processors compre to the quad core intel ones and the i7

The bad news for AMD is the Core i7 still whoops it in every benchmark

**NooNoo** · January 25th, 2009, 02:58 AM

Originally Posted by Vakas

SOmeone told me to run the Phenom II I need a psu that runs 30 Amps on a rail so will the one I got do the job?

On which rail.. the storm outputs 30amps on the 5v rail - look at the output on the page your linked to jeantech storm.

**Vakas** · January 25th, 2009, 10:41 AM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

The bad news for AMD is the Core i7 still whoops it in every benchmark

I still would not buy an Intel lol

Also look at the price difference

**Ferrit** · January 25th, 2009, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

The bad news for AMD is the Core i7 still whoops it in every benchmark

Yes it does and so it should for a second generation 45n proc.
Now lets not forget a quick mention of the significant prices
for the motherboards and ram.

**Vakas** · January 28th, 2009, 03:14 PM

I got 4 sticks of 1066 Kingston HyperX Mrmomty 4x2gb

on the Gigsbyte website it says that due to AM2 CPU limitations you can only use 1 1066 dimm in a memory channel on the GA-MA790GP-DS4H motherboard

So does this mean I was only be able to use2 sticks thus totaling 4gig?

**NooNoo** · January 28th, 2009, 05:39 PM

Yes... however reading around some people using the F2a bios have got 8gigs to work... otherwise it drops to 800

**Vakas** · January 29th, 2009, 01:19 AM

so even if I cant get 8 gig to work at 1066 will it automatically drop to 800 once i put all 4 sticks in

**NooNoo** · January 29th, 2009, 02:30 AM

So it would appear... best to email Gigabyte on that and see if they can clarify further.

**Vakas** · January 29th, 2009, 09:21 PM

I have finally put it all togther with the Phenom II 940 and got 6 gig 1066 Kingstom Hperx RAM working

Bought an Akasa Ak-922 HSF to keep it all nice and cool.

The Gigabyte MA-780GP-DS4H motherboard is great too I' loving it.

I had the Same problem that Ferrit had with his TV tuner but got it all sorted now