I see a AMD 790FX,750SB Motherboard at newegg

I saw this too. What's the difference between the 790GX and the 790FX (besides the ATI HD 3300).

The important thing to remember is that the 750SB. That new SB is much better then the older ones. (first one to offer RAID5...) If you care about SB performance, you want a board that it. If you don't care about RAID5 or the other improvements, just grab any motherboard that has the older 700.

That's also the first AMD board with 2 eSATA ports and two NICs. Sounds like a winner. I'm torn bewteen GX and FX cause GX SHOULD let you pipe HDMI out of the IGP.

But hey I'm still waiting for someone to actually benchmark the latest Spider with two 4870s and an OCd 9950. No reviewers have shown any OC scores with Spider. AT least I haven't seen any. They just say, yeah, ACC works. You are basically guaranteed 3GHz+. Do your own benchmarks.

Asus is the best if you can get a 790FX,750SB board.
I like their support too.
AMD shows the M3A78-T as a recommended board for the Phenom 9950 but I didn't see it listed at the ASUS website

http://products.amd.com/en-us/Reco [...] 8=140.000&

and here.
http://products.amd.com/en-us/Reco [...] aspx?id=35

Oops, I forgot about ACC, thanks for the reminder. When Toms tested it, they got the CPU to 3GHz+, but they didn't show any benchmarks for that speed. Is a 3GHz+ Phenom any better then the slower clocked 2.2-2.6GHz models? I'm assuming yes, but not tremendously so.

The 790GX chipset do all have an HDMI out and will allow you to send video over HDMI, however the IGP is still a Radeon 3000 series so don't think you will be able to send audio over the HDMI like you can over with the 4000 series GPU's.

If you want to see the OC results of people running 9950's,9850's and 9600's
with 750 SB boards this is a good place to check.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/Forum [...] 8610f&f=58

I am sure it is a good system. He should be getting it tomorrow or so since he lives about 4 hours from the site where Newegg ships from (City of Industry Cali) so we will know then.

I get about 11K on my system (Q6600, HD2900Pro 1GB) and got near 13K when I OCed my CPU to 3GHz and OCed my GPU to 800MHz/1200MHz (2400MHz effective). But I know my system with one HD4850 should hit 13K stock and with a 4870 its near 14K.

They are powerful GPUs the 4800 series. I want a 4870 but am waiting for a 1GB version. I know I am crazy but it seems to me that having 1GB of GRAM helps with higher res textures and alows for better performance since there is more memory for more and larger textures. Or so it seems. Like my rig for example is able to play HL2: EP2 and TF2 @ 1920x1080p and still gets 60FPS.

Either way I will update you guys about the rig my friend has when he gets it up.

You are correct. All of the HD2000, HD 3000 and HD4000 GPUs can do 5.1 audio via HDMI via a adapter. The only difference between the series is the HD4K series all have the UVD2 where as the older HD2K series did not have a UVD that I was aware of unless you had a HD2600 or lower.

Even if I need to output through the optical, that's fine. I just want the 50GB disks and the HD video. It's cheaper with the PC drive right now.

Yes most HD3000 series video cards and HD4000 sereis video cards support the HDMI Video with 7.1 Audio through DVI to HDMI connectors which comes with all the HD3000 and HD4000 series video cards.

I have a question about overclocking my Phenom II X3 720BE I have had it as high as 3.7GHZ and stable for 5 hours as per AMD overdrives stability Test but for some reason when playing CRYSIS, or Need for Speed undercover it stops responding and sometimes takes me to the blue screen of death does anyone kow what I'm doing wrong I have my Core V at 1.525 and my Core multiplier set to 18.5 with 205 MHZ. Is this wrong??