Who here misses when Gigabyte used to make chinky looking motherboards with insane VRMs on them?
Who here misses when Gigabyte used to make chinky looking motherboards with insane VRMs on them?
Brandon Lee
Jacob Ortiz
I was going to complain that you're posting a board that's only a few years old but LGA775 must be dead nearly a year now, fuck you for making me feel old
Josiah James
That shit was so cash
Mason Miller
>your mobo will never take you out back and put a bullet through your skull
Isaac Gray
That is LGA 1366, CPU Archs: Nehalem and Bloomfield (quad cores) and Westmere (hex cores).
Still a reminder that we are old.
Do miss the blue PCB though (not a fan of the current white&orange or black&orange combos).
Justin Williams
was 1366 not the replacement for 775?
Zachary Thompson
Yes and no. 775 was a consumer desktop release and it's technical successor was the defective 1156 socket of Nehamlem (pins had a habit of burning out on both CPU and mobo, and poor overclocking too).
LGA 1366 was a high end desktop release which succeeded both LGA 775 and LGA 771 (server computers), and likely the first HEDT gen from Intel (could be wrong).
Colton Clark
Not him but X58 was fucking based, it was what an enthusiast platform should be, a new architecture with high end features, X79 onward are still good platforms but Intel are some hoes for making it a generation behind, even if it is an incremental increase, the boards and chips are expensive as fuck.
Mason Sanchez
>tfw still using a lga 1366
>tfw everything just werks.
It's a bittersweet feeling tho, my hardware is ancient and will die any time for sure and we are right in the middle of a crisis with memory, gpus, etc.
Jackson Lee
I'd keep it if it works well, you're getting better IPC than my FX 8350 rig and if you slap in a USB card with a front header on it and re-case it, it's just about as modern as any pc.
Levi Miller
I wish they put VRMs on like they used to, my C6H just can't compare.
Logan Cooper
*VRM heatsinks
Though the VRMs were better on midrange crap before too, now you get ROG boards with 4 phase crap.
Ethan Gray
Yeah I'm so broke atm I just bought one of those 6 core xeons from ebay and will put it in place of my old i7 960 and let it rest after almost 10 years of being overclocked and working 24/7.
I'm legit more concerned about the vrms of my rampage III tho.
No way those things are going to live longer I have had motherboards for the lga 1151 die on me in 3 years like the one from my cousin.
I fucked up and now just the ram would cost me a grand if I wanted let's say 32gb
Gabriel Hughes
I like having beefcake VRMs, but that was mainly needed because Zambezi and Vishera are whores, the higher end RYZEN boards have just about what they need for VRMs before you start getting limited by the CPU
The 990FX boards built to handle the 9590 are fucking amazing because you're likely to kill the CPU with volts before the VRM becomes a problem.
I wouldn't underestimate that Rampage III, it's a second wave X58 board made for the 980X when it came around.
William Gutierrez
Liam Phillips
I hope you're right user, but at worst case this rampage III extreme worked like a champ all these years I have nothing bad to say about them. I wonder if asus still makes shit like this.
Noah Gutierrez
>Newest RAMPAGE ROG X299 is 12 phase VRM
Looks like they still make strong boards to me, even if it is rgb.
Jonathan Powell
Jaxon Powell
What are you trying to convey, shill?
Gavin Richardson
Caleb Hughes
That anemic VRM cooler is gonna throttle any heavy workloads.
Caleb Johnson
>tfw motherboard sages your shitpost
Owen Brooks
The X299 Extreme is 8 phases
Jayden Diaz
What's the general consensus on Gigabyte mobos? I had a ton of weird bugs and it recently shit the bed out of nowhere and fried my ram, it was 3 years old at worst.
Jackson White
The boards are amazing but the UEFI is a little stupid.
Ryan Johnson
ARRR
James Kelly
Voltages are FUCKED. Default ones are way too high already and what ever you manually set it'll be something like 0.1V higher. Do NOT recommend.
Dominic Sullivan
motherboards look pretty good now beside the big plastic shrouds over the IO ports might take mine off when I work on mine next
Julian Cox
Case in point, Vcore set to 1.2875V but jumps to 1.38V under load.
Brody Hall
>775
>Old
Oh i forgot, it must be babby's first PC.
Brody Wood
Gigabyte's new X470 flagship has proper old school VRM heatsinks.
Jacob Richardson
LGA 775 first released in 2006 for Prescott P4s.
Kayden Walker
i miss the old days
David Brown
Gabriel Nelson
Easton Davis
Nolan Jenkins
they're not even necessary for ryzen, 'proper' heatsinks are only necessary for intel housefires, esp the skylake-x shit
Benjamin Russell
Can you find some other thread to smear your shit on the walls of, my dear AMD shill? Thanks.
Lincoln Martin
are you trying to imply skylake-x 1000W flamethrowers don't need proper vrm heatsinking? you know there was a whole ordeal over that which scared vendors into throwing overkill heatsinks on their motherboards for everything else?
Christian Parker
>rgb
Eeaauugh, still a nice board though.
Eli White
>your mobo will never be confiscated and ripped apart by customs officers
why live
Caleb Gonzalez
but he is right though, multiple reviewers and overclockers have confirmed for everything but exotic cooling the current X470 VRM heatsinks are adequate
fact: if you ran (most) X470 VRMs at 100% they would provide around 400 Watts
fact: ryzen+ won't go past 200 Watts at "safe" voltages under air/water cooling
props to gigabyte for including finned VRMs though wish others had done the same, also shame the fins are only on their most expensive board and not the more budget X470 boards
Alexander Miller
Wyatt Jones
The C6H delivers maximum theoretical 320A of current and the C7H delivers maximum 600A of current. The former uses 40A TI NexFETs and the latter uses Infineon 60A stuff (Previously IR PowlRStage). In contrast, the C5F only comprises of (generic?) MOSFETs in the LF-PAK package. The C5FZ comprises of (generic?) PowerPAKs. Not that great.
4 Phases from the PWM is OK if there are drivers for the additional stages, which the C6H and C7H have. Anyway, the VRMs on the C6/7H are much better than those on the C5F/C5FZ and hence is fine with a smaller heatsink. Of course, a large heatsink is desirable, but the superior VRMs negate the need for it.
Isaiah Diaz
Me
Heh I had that exact board dunno what died but it got stuck in bootloops and 3+ of the ram slots died I think one of the bridges shit itself I miss my i7 920
Kevin Edwards
lol no, B350 motherboards from all brands have threads complaining that they hit the high 90s with some asus boards hitting thermal junction.
Elijah Cook
Nostalgia'd hard. Especially at
>ATI
Joshua Ramirez
I wouldn't nostalgia too hard, my AMD board revision from 2013 had an ATI Crossfire X logo on it because Gigabyte wouldn't let go.
Isaiah Wilson
Why does Asus put waterblocks on the Z370 Formula but not the X299 Apex? ( Guaranteed it'd be paired up with the 7980XE
Carter Jenkins
Apex is for LN2
Jaxon Sanchez
The Apex can take the 7980XE to 5ghz on water but you need a vrm water block
Hudson Howard
Me too.
Justin Morgan
WISH WE COULD TURN BACK TIME
Gavin Gutierrez
TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS
Juan Martinez
The 770/880 AM3 series was nice
Samuel Baker
They nailed AM3/AM3+, I know the Sabertooth 990FX had a cleaner VRM, but the UD3 cost less and could get the same OC with not much more voltage.
MSI had the worst AM3+ boards, damn thing couldn't even get 4.4 prime stable on 1.44v while my UD3 does it on 1.38v
Ryan Anderson
I would like to add: MSI AM3+ boards that weren't top of the line had a well-earned reputation of bursting into flames or otherwise failing.
Adam King
My old board had the dumbest setup, a 6+2 phase with no LLC, and they originally charged $130 for it when you could get the Revision 5 UD3 for 89.99 on amazon. I didn't pay 130 for it refurbished and got my money back on ebay to get the UD3.
Blake Russell
I had a VX