Replacing an ASRock 890gx ex3 with a gigabyte 970A-UD3 ?

[athlon64]

So my friend went to intel and he is willing to give me his Gigabyte 970A-UD3 for my ASRock 890gx extreme3. I know it"s not a big upgrade but i basicly don"t have to spend almost any money. His board is a year newer and has 9 months of warranty left. My doesn"t have any. On that board i will put this:

1055t ( will overclock to 4Ghz )
4x4Gb od kingston HyperX 1600mhz
A gtx470 SOC (not planing to sli so secondary x4 line is not a problem)
A kingston HyperX 120GB ssd
A Tx 650w
A 2Tb wd green ( two of them )

And she is going into a well ventilated cm 690 2.

I just wanted a few opinions. Is it a good mbo? Will she serv me reliable, i run my pc 24/7 and i need reliability. It"s a 1.0 revision with a bios, not UEFI.

 

[jamesriley94]

It isn't really an upgrade at all?
You're going from a high(ish) end 8XX chipset to one of the lowest end 9XX series.

 

[athlon64]

I didn"t say it"s an upgrade. I also didn"t say i"m spending money. On ASRock my memory won"t run at 1600mhz but only at 1333. I hope that might be fixed.

I don"t think it"s a downgrade and i"m getting something with warranty.

 

[jamesriley94]

It won't fix the RAM. That's limited by your processor - Phenoms are terrible with RAM over 1600mhz.

I'd say it was a downgrade tbh

 

[athlon64]

Well i"m stil trying to decide weather i should replace it. I heard that gigabyte has a better soundcard ,that is important to me since i have AKG K512 MK2 and i"m running them of an integrated card. And i get native support for bulldozer/piledriver. And i get a newer board with warannty. And i get a gigabyte board witch is a synonim for quallity. So why is it a downgrade?

 

[jamesriley94]

There's next to no difference between the onboard soundcards really.

Native support for bulldozer doesn't mean anything considering you can update the BIOS with your phenom and the ASrock will support it.

The quality thing I'd agree with if it were new... But your ASrock is working fine I'm guessing? There isn't a real need to change things I don't think.

If it's free you may as well take it off your friend. But you aren't going to see any benefits really. More things are likely to go wrong in the change over than would do over the next 3 months.

It's a downgrade because the chipsets go in the performance range from:
870 - 880 - 890
970 - 980 - 990

The 970 is a later model but a worse chip. It's similar to asking whether you should change an AMD 6970 for a 7770. Newer version but worse card regardless

 

[athlon64]

Well i understand. It"s probably not worth screwing with a replace when my ASRock is working well. I just taught that since it"s a 9xx chipset it would be a better board. I don"t know what to do.

 

[athlon64]

I decided to keep my ASRock. She is runninng great and i don"t feel like creating problems i don"t need