GA-790XTA-UD4 or GA-770TA-UD3

[hawtfrank]

I was wondering if anybody has the new GA-790XTA-UD4 or GA-770TA-UD3 as I am looking to buy one of them. They are new so no reviews have been posted that I can find. Just looking for feed back on them.

 

[Epox]

Same question here. I know this topic is old but maybe the OP can come back and tell us what choice he finally made. I guess really at this point my only concern is: SB710 vs SB750...

I can save $30+ going with SB750 and still get the features I need/want, but I read on Tom's Hardware the SB750 is "reputed" to have better USB & SATA performance... ?

I don't want to get the SB710 and then find out it takes 2 minutes to transfer a 100 MB file via USB

 

[saint19]

Hi newcomer and welcome to the Tom's hardware forum.

1- What is your budget?
2- What are the other components of the rig?

 

[bilbat]

copy the "SB710 vs SB750" from your post into google - there is about ten hours or so of reading material...

 

[saint19]

Now from you options, I would go for the 790XTA.

 

[Gryfalcon]

I would go with the 790XTA-UD4 it has both USB 3.0 and the new SATA 3 (6GB/s) on it. Now if you want also to have 2 graphics cards and both running at X16 in the PCI-e slots then go for the even newer 790FXTA-UD5 has everything the 790XTA-UD4 but also has two PCI=e slots that run at x16. It actually has 3 x16 slots but if you populate all 3 they run at x16 x8 x8 where if you run 2 cards its x16 x16. On the UD4 they run at x16 x8 and so on. But they UD5 board also costs like $40 more then the UD4.

 

[bilbat]

"..... friends don't let friends.....buy AMD!"

 

[bilbat]

Aaaahhh - I shouldn't tease Every hero needs a foil, every market needs competitors...and someone's got to keep Intel at least 'semi-honest'! My on-going headache, and major complaint about AMD has never been their hardware, it's always been their documentation - or, more succinctly, the total lack thereof. In the past couple months, with a sucking sound hear 'round the world, someone there has withdrawn their head from their nether regions, and published, or at least, made available what had been 'hidden', more documentation than they had previously released in a couple decades! [:bilbat:5] Now, I gotta dig through it

 

[Epox]

I've already done some reading, and there actually isn't that much. Only 8 Google results in English for that "SB710 vs SB750" query.

I think I am going with the GA-770TA. The primary difference between the 790 and 770 boards is the 2nd PCI-e x16 slot.
I do not need the extra slot.

Check the facts:
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/WebPage/mb_091020_333/data/tech_090814_amd-models.htm

 

[r_manic]

Best answer selected by r_manic.

 

[esaglik]

"..... friends don't let friends.....buy AMD!"

they do if they dont want friends to waste $400+ for a slower performing system