09-02-2009, 04:56 AM
I have an M4A79T Deluxe with a 720BE, and have been very pleased with them. I don't know if you really meant the older M4A79 or if you were intending the M4A79T. What bad things have you heard? The only two negative things I can think of with the M4A79T are that the floppy connector is mounted in a bad spot, and that with almost any good CPU cooler the first two memory slots are blocked (I'm using a Zalman 9700). If you need all four slots be very careful in your cooler selection. I don't use USB and I don't use SATA (except for a couple of optical drives), so I cannot speak for USB and SATA performance.
If I were putting together a system now I would wait for the DX11 video cards.
Do you really need four cores? There is a rumor of a new AMD three core part.
If I were putting together a system now I would wait for the DX11 video cards.
Do you really need four cores? There is a rumor of a new AMD three core part.
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