which of these gigabyte amd board ?

[greendesert]

Hi All

After wasting about five days on my asrock machine, I have decided to buy a gigabyte board. I am looking at these :

880G

GA-880GM-USB3L

GA-880GMA-USB3

GA-880G-USB3

GA-880GM-USB3

GA-880GA-UD3H

890GX

GA-890GPA-UD3H

Which one would you suggest ? Which overclocks/unlocks core the best ?

thanks !

[Shinma]

Among those listed,
The GA-890GPA-UD3H is the most current.

No comment(s) on overclocking, since I do not.

[Train]

Once cpus hit 1 GHx, I gave up on O/Cing the little gain was not worth it to me.
And now with multicore cpus that can do so much more in less time, OCing make less sence to me.

[photolady]

I agree with Train on this. Overclocking was okay when your cpu was lower than 1Ghz, but now cpus are faster there is no need. Besides overclocking shortens the life of your cpu.

[SuperSparks]

It might knock a couple of weeks off a 10-year life, but not by any appreciable amount. Lifespan isn't worth worrying about.

I don't agree that overclocking is worth doing, you can easily get a 10% to 20% performance gain for the sake of a few minutes work, with no real downside these days. You can get a lot more than that if you want to really push things, though there is a lot more effort involved. Any decent mobo will have a failsafe BIOS that will revert to a standard clock if you push things too far.

[photolady]

Well, I was never told how much life span it would affect, Nick. I was only posting what I'd read on VDR about overclocking.

[Train]

Since most OCers only keep the computer 2 years before upgrading. Bragging rights and all that stuff. Not worth it to me. Although i had fun with a certain member by OCing a couple times with a mad onion score.