bit of help

[Kenadjian Jr.]

Hi there i was looking at making a new rig and just wanted to no which 1 you guys think is the better MB to go with
The 1st: Asus CROSSHAIR-IV FORMULA AMD
The 2nd: Asus M4A89TD-PRO-USB3 AMD
thank you

Regards Sean

[Neptune24]

I have had a look at them and I think you would be best with the crosshair. I say this as firstly there seems to be more things on the motherboard like the PCI slots. Secondly it looks better and third is the rather large price difference.

Hope this helps a little.

Neptune24.

[Kenadjian Jr.]

Hi there very SORRY for Very Very Very Very late reply is this the main reson the PCI slots coz i will be only using 2? the main reson i asked the first question was that in the memory section it says 1333 and rest O.C.
(Asus CROSSHAIR-IV FORMULA)
4 x DIMM, Max. 16 GB, DDR3 2000(O.C.)/1800(O.C.)/1600(O.C.)/1333/1066

And the (Asus M4A89TD-PRO-USB3) memory section it says 1600 all the rest O.C.
4 x DIMM, Max. 16 GB, DDR3 2000(O.C.)/1600/1333/1066 ECC,Non-ECC,Un-buffered Memory

I will be using 2000 ram so does this mean that the Asus CROSSHAIR-IV FORMULA will have a 1333 FSB and Asus M4A89TD-PRO-USB3 1600 FSB ultimatly making it faster??

Thank you For Your Time

Regards Sean

[Major_A]

It's just a RAM timing difference and doesn't have anything to do with the CPU's FSB or speed. Most boards let you OC the RAM or run the EPP Profile even with the FSB as stock speeds. So either one should be fine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_pre ... _.28EPP.29

[Kenadjian Jr.]

Ok thank you very much for that

Regards Sean