I built a system around the GA 790XTA-UD4 and Phenom II 965 Black. The
Gigabyte
board was a big disappointment, mostly because it takes so long to boot (Win
XP). A
friend also bought that board, and his also takes a long time to boot (Win
XP), about
a minute and a half to be specific. Then I found online references to
others complaining
about the slow boot of the Gigabyte. Let the buyer beware.

I replaced the Gigabyte mobo with the Asrock 890FX Deluxe 4 and it was the
smartest
move I ever made. The Asrock is heads and shoulders above the Gigabyte, and
even
offers the option to boot in 7 seconds or less. I liked the Asrock so much
I bought a
second one and made another PC, using the AMD 6 core cpu. Fantatic board.



"Phat_Jethro" wrote in message
...
Thanks Ed

You kind of confirmed the was I was thinking. I had my eye on the Phenom
II X4 955 black as well.
Mother board of GA-770T-USB3... any issues with it having a slightly older
chipset? I am out of the loop on AMD chipsets so just asking.

Thx

On 12/13/2010 7:30 PM, Ed Light wrote:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128431

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...x4,2791-2.html


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820134792

http://techreport.com/articles.x/19868

To the poster who says don't get ATI, I got a geforce 240GT and found
that I couldn't get the sharpening or dynamic contrast to work in flash
player 10.1 (in Win 7). Nor could I make profiles for different levels
of sharpness and choose them by right-clicking a tray icon. Went back to
ATI, and even the humble 4350 lets me do all that (it doesn't have the
dynamic contrast, being a very low-end part). The ATI drivers do have
strange anomalies and you have to test what settings such as brightness
really do and where (in Win 7, desktop gamma affects the video). If you
don't mess with brightness and get it all right at the monitor, then
that's not relevant.



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