Ok, so i bought this set-up from Cyberpower yesterday and have time to change things if needed. My main concern is matching up an appropriate motherboard with the processor. This is a very heavy rig for me and I don't want to plop down the doe if there is compatibility issues.

Does this motherboard match up well with the latest AMD chip (Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition Quad-Core)? See any issues with this build?

Please, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

CPU: AMD Phenom(TM) X4 9850 Black Edition Quad-Core CPU w/ HyperTransport Technology
MOTHERBOARD: Asus M2N SLI NVIDIA nForce 560 SLI MCP Chipset DDR2/800 SATA RAID PCI-Express MBoard w/GbLAN,IEEE1394,USB2.0,&7.1Audio
FAN: CoolerMaster Liquid CPU Cooling System (Superior Cooling Performance)
HDD: Single Hard Drive (500GB SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD)
MEMORY: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)4GB (2x2GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory (Corsair)
OS: Microsoft(R) Windows Vista(TM) Home Premium w/ Service Pack 1 (32-bit Edition)
POWERSUPPLY: 750 Watts Power Supplies (Ultra Lifetime Series Pro)
SOUND: Creative Labs SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio 24-BIT PCI Sound Card
UPS: OPTI-UPS VS575C 575VA/345W UNINTERRUPT POWER SUPPLY -
VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 16X PCI Express (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA)
VIDEO2: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 16X PCI Express (Major Brand Powered by NVIDIA)

With 04/28/2008 bios update that board will work with the 9850, yup.  However, it's not an AM2+ board, so you can't use the full FSB of the Phenom.  I doubt it will be a drastic difference, but you won't quite be using the full potential of that CPU.

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With 04/28/2008 bios update that board will work with the 9850, yup.  However, it's not an AM2+ board, so you can't use the full FSB of the Phenom.  I doubt it will be a drastic difference, but you won't quite be using the full potential of that CPU.

 

 

Unless its the deluxe verision which supports AM2+.

There's an M2N board that supports more than 1000MHz Hyper Transport? 

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There's an M2N board that supports more than 1000MHz Hyper Transport? 

 

 

yep.

 

http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=3&l2=101&l3=301&model=1160&modelmenu=1

It certainly will support the 9850 with a bios update (which I never doubted), but I see nothing saying it'll run it above 1000MHz Hypertransport (aka 2000 MT/s).  Unless a bios update somehow allows that, but I haven't found anything.  I'm just saying a real AM2+ board will give slightly more performance, I don't mean to start an argument. ;-)

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It certainly will support the 9850 with a bios update (which I never doubted), but I see nothing saying it'll run it above 1000MHz Hypertransport (aka 2000 MT/s).  Unless a bios update somehow allows that, but I haven't found anything.  I'm just saying a real AM2+ board will give slightly more performance, I don't mean to start an argument. ;-)

 

Sorry I thought MT was a typo! No you were right, and proved me wrong no harm done there.