Sabertooth is almost exactly same board...but longer warranty...and Bulldozer don't run all cores on Win 7, and I ain't never gettin Win 8

/e oh and MY current 955 is a C2 stepping...doesn't overclock that well...like 3.8Ghz max..on air...the C3 stepping has a diff IMC or w/e AMD calls iit.

This post was edited by ghot on Oct 7 2012 05:35pm

Ah so the 965 is just to have fun with to see any differences and the mobo/ram to prep for the steamroller?

Should of kept saving.

This.

What is C2 / C3 stepping?

yeah more or less...a winter project so to speak...

Lower power consumption and heat dissipation are not the only improvements AMD engineers introduced in the new Deneb C3 processor stepping. They have also done some work on the memory controller integrated into the CPU, as it now has improved electrical stability when working with four modules. In reality it means that if there is proper support in the mainboard BIOS then the processors with the new stepping can work perfectly fine with four DDR3-1333 SDRAM modules. As for CPUs with C2 processor stepping, then could only work stably with four DDR3-1067 SDRAM modules, while faster memory could only be used in dual-module configurations.

Looks good Ghot I got my c3 965 which is waiting to be OCed.

Looking forward to pictures!

well screenshots anyways...I don't have a camera...and my celly is just a no frills Cricket lol

/e but when I get this all done...I'll probably get a friend to take some pics

/ee It's def gonna take me a while to figure out this BS ...UEFI BIOS...I'm so used to the old style BIOS it's gonna be hilarious lol

This post was edited by ghot on Oct 7 2012 06:23pm

Glhf

I could only push my 980 to 4.1 stable.

I did get it semi stable at 4.3 but I needed to push like 1.6 volts lol