New AMD CPU & Motherboard

I'm looking to buy a new AMd CPU and Motherboard,

I'm thinking of a AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1100T Black Edition 3.30GHz (Socket AM3) CPU and Gigabyte GA-880GM-UD2H AMD 880G (Socket AM3) microATX DDR3 Motherboard

Any thoughts, not to intrested in Intel CPUs..

Edited by _fruit_loop_ (Sat 02-Jul-11 07:11:34)

Intel cpus are great and gigabyte boards suck.

I've just bought the same board with a 955 black. Also have the same chip in an Asus board.
Both overclocked to 3.6 and undervolted with no problems.

The only slight niggles I have with the Gigabyte board are that the power light doesn't flash when in sleep mode (Not the end of the world but it bugs me ) and the cpu temperature sensor seems to rise and fall a lot causing the fan speed to ramp up and down.
I know that sounds normal but the Asus doesn't have the same issue

Not a problem if you have a decent quiet cooler with a 'flatish' fan profile.

Any reason you don't want Intel? If you can run to the extra MB cost I would get an i5 k chip unless the extra 2 cores of the phenom will be specifically useful for you.

You have to be careful with the chipsets though.

H67 = Integrated graphics
P67 = Overclock multiplier
Z68 = Both of the above