how good is this foxconn

A GX chipset does 8X/8X in crossfire, a GX is really just a 890X board with onboad video. The FX does 16X/16X. As far as Foxconn, some boards are good, some are junk. Kinda of a 50/50 board for AMD.
 
StrangleHold said:
A GX chipset does 8X/8X in crossfire, a GX is really just a 890X board with onboad video. The FX does 16X/16X. As far as Foxconn, some boards are good, some are junk. Kinda of a 50/50 board for AMD.
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well i really want a fx then know any good ones?
 
About as cheap as you'll get for a decent 890FX:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157196

Honestly....depending on what cards you are using, x8/x8 won't bottleneck the cards by much at all. Especially if you plan on using a 700W GameXStream, as anything above dual 4850's or so i wouldnt really run on one, as when you near the max load on the gamexstream units ripple supression becomes extremely poor on the 12v rails.
 
bomberboysk said:
About as cheap as you'll get for a decent 890FX:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157196

Honestly....depending on what cards you are using, x8/x8 won't bottleneck the cards by much at all. Especially if you plan on using a 700W GameXStream, as anything above dual 4850's or so i wouldnt really run on one, as when you near the max load on the gamexstream units ripple supression becomes extremely poor on the 12v rails.
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well should i just go with the foxconn or is there a better brand
 
JareeB said:
well should i just go with the foxconn or is there a better brand
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Gigabyte and Asus are the two best brands for AMD, typically. MSI is #3, IMO. Foxconn does have some gems, though. Their 8xx boards have gotten good reviews. The only thing they lack is the rather common USB 3.0 controller.

StrangleHold said:
a GX is really just a 890X board with onboad video.
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Actually, if it's anything like 790X, then it's actually a harvested 890FX. Some of the 790X boards could do 16x/16x.
 
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Drenlin said:
Gigabyte and Asus are the two best brands for AMD, typically. MSI is #3, IMO. Foxconn does have some gems, though. Their 8xx boards have gotten good reviews. The only thing they lack is the rather common USB 3.0 controller.



Actually, if it's anything like 790X, then it's actually a harvested 890FX. Some of the 790X boards could do 16x/16x.
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so i want a 790x then? i typed in on newegg it just gave me boards that could run one card at x16 or two at x8
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...PA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=790x&x=0&y=0
 
Drenlin said:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130249

Would have been a decent board if it wasn't limited to DDR3 1200 :/
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No its not. Just because it says it has two X16 (slots) doesnt mean they both run in X16 in crossfire. Its X8/X8. All 790X boards have two X16 (slots). AMD would pitch a fit if they made a X16/X16 790X/890X board.


G45 has all the options one could ask for. First on this list is a pair of PCI-e 2.0 graphics slots (8x / 8x electrical when both are used),

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/cpu/msi-set-launch-790xg45-am2-motherboard/
 
^ You sure? I found that board because someone on here posted it, and nobody disagreed. There are enough lanes there...I don't see whay it wouldn't work. Asrock did something similar with that 8x/8x 785G board.


No, you don't want 790X. It's an oldr chipset. You'll get much more functionality out of an 8xx board...preferably with USB3.
 
What happen was the 785 chipset is really nothing but a 770 chip with onboard video. Has a total of 22 PCIe lanes, with 4 extra on the southbridge. Most everybody conformed to AMD standards ond only offered it as a single X16 with the second run off the southbridge with 4. Asrock just jumped ship and split the X16 to give it X8/X8. AMDs point was if you split the 770/785 lanes, who would buy the 790X

The difference is the 790/890X doesnt have 32 PCIe lanes to start with. Only 22 total. The 790/890FX has 32 lanes
 
StrangleHold said:
What happen was the 785 chipset is really nothing but a 770 chip with onboard video. Has a total of 22 PCIe lanes, with 4 extra on the southbridge. Most everybody conformed to AMD standards ond only offered it as a single X16 with the second run off the southbridge with 4. Asrock just jumped ship and split the X16 to give it X8/X8. AMDs point was if you split the 770/785 lanes, who would buy the 790X

The difference is the 790/890X doesnt have 32 PCIe lanes to start with. Only 22 total. The 790/890FX has 32 lanes
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what are pcie lanes lol and can someone please show me a board that can run two cards at the fastest speeds possible lol
 
JareeB said:
what are pcie lanes lol and can someone please show me a board that can run two cards at the fastest speeds possible lol
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The slots your PCIe X16 cards fit in and some boards have PCIe X1/X4/X8 slots. Its the amount of lanes/links the slots have. Well the fastest are the 790FX and 890FX boards in crossfire in X16/X16

Sorta of a noob site, but explains it pretty well
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/pci-express1.htm
 
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JareeB said:
what are pcie lanes lol and can someone please show me a board that can run two cards at the fastest speeds possible lol
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The actual PCI slots on the board are physically x16 slots...however.

ELECTRICALLY, they are only x8/x8 when in crossfire.

As simple as i can explain it, think of a PCI express lane as a road. More lanes in the road mean more cars can pass over it(think of cars=data). The chipset only has so many roads(PCI Express lanes), which means only so many cars(data) can pass through it. Now, if that data has to go to two different locations, it has to split the number of lanes to each card.

HOWEVER, all cards short of a 5970 or 4870x2 will have enough bandwidth not to be severely bottlnecked by the amount of data that can pass through the pci express lanes.

An 880g or 890GX based board(870 doesnt support crossfire) can do crossfire in x8/x8, and will run pretty much any card just fine. In a single card scenario, you will have the full x16 bandwidth.
 
bomberboysk said:
The actual PCI slots on the board are physically x16 slots...however.

ELECTRICALLY, they are only x8/x8 when in crossfire.

As simple as i can explain it, think of a PCI express lane as a road. More lanes in the road mean more cars can pass over it(think of cars=data). The chipset only has so many roads(PCI Express lanes), which means only so many cars(data) can pass through it. Now, if that data has to go to two different locations, it has to split the number of lanes to each card.

HOWEVER, all cards short of a 5970 or 4870x2 will have enough bandwidth not to be severely bottlnecked by the amount of data that can pass through the pci express lanes.

An 880g or 890GX based board(870 doesnt support crossfire) can do crossfire in x8/x8, and will run pretty much any card just fine. In a single card scenario, you will have the full x16 bandwidth.
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thanks i understood that, so should i find a board that says something like 2 pcie 2.0 x16 (one x16 or 2 x8,x8)?
 
8x 8x will be fine...id be more worried about cpu updates, so id stick with something in the 8xx family none the less, not worrying as much about the gpu bandwidth
 
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