Is the ASUS M4A77D worth getting over my current Board?

[Philhalo66]

Okay so i found a manufacturer refurbished M4A77D motherboard for 80 bucks shipped but my dilemma comes at this Is that even worth getting over my current board? I currently have an ASrock AOD790GX/128M and it has alot of problems
For instance if i set my processor voltage to 1.325V in the BIOS under load it goes to 1.46V. so is it worth the money?

 

[raja@asus]

The vcore changing under load may be a facet of C1E or voltage misread in software. The other cause of this can be if you've set LLC to the max value, in some cases this causes VID to increase under load - depends how the engineers have configured it. If you have LLC control on that board try setting it to a lower value, that may mitigate the positive load offset (unless it's dynamic VID in which case nothing to worry about).

-Raja

 

[Philhalo66]

if i drop the voltage down it gives out a blue screen because the min voltage is too low, and i don't have any of those special features just plain old CPU voltage.

 

[raja@asus]

In that case, your CPU needs the level of VCore the board is applying. I would not be concerned about the voltage ramp per se.

 

[Philhalo66]

I'm sure it doesn't need it i know this my last board was a very low end piece of crap and the voltage was rock solid stable at 1.325V and i didn't have any problems.

 

[raja@asus]

Well the polling is never really accurate. The IO chips don't always measure voltage at the same point on the power plane, plus you do get polling errors. There's a lot more to what the actual voltage is than what is shown in a software tool.