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Solved Advice on buying gaming motherboard please
after much strife with my old board i gave up trying to fix it
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (Installed: Apr... AMD FX-8150 CORSAIR XMS3 CMX8GX3M4A1333C9 (4 x 2gb) ASUS EAH6950 DCII/2DI4S/2GD5 PC/Desktop home built Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (Installed: Apr 2012) AMD FX-8150 Asrock 970 extreme 3 CORSAIR XMS3 CMX8GX3M4A1333C9 (4 x 2gb) ASUS EAH6950 DCII/2DI4S/2GD5 On board 2 x LG LCD (1x DVI-D 1x VGA) 1920 x 1080 (x2) Western Digital WD3200AAKX 320gb CORSAIR TX 750w Thermaltake Arctic cooling Freezer 13 Pro Large air cooler, 3 x case fan Saitek Cyborg wired USB L.Selectron 2400 DPI wired USB optical mouse WLAN USB Dongle (n) Microsoft Security Essentials Mozilla Firefox Yamaha sound reciever 5.1
Depends on your budget really....
Windows 8.1 - 64 Bit Intel Core i5-4670K (Haswell) 8GB DDR3-RAM PC1600 CL9 ADATA XPG V1.0 black Gigabyte NVIDIA GTX 770 Graphics Card (2GB, D... PC/Desktop Self Built Windows 8.1 - 64 Bit Intel Core i5-4670K (Haswell) Gigabyte GA-Z87X-D3H 8GB DDR3-RAM PC1600 CL9 ADATA XPG V1.0 black Gigabyte NVIDIA GTX 770 Graphics Card (2GB, DDR5, PCI-E) ASUS Xonar DX 7.1 | Turtle Beach HPA 2 Samsung SyncMaster P2270HD 1080p Samsung 840 Evo 250 GB (OS only) 750 watts Zalman GS-1000 Special Edition Zalman CNPS10X Performa Logitech K350 Logitech M705 | Razer Vespula Mouse Pad Virgin Media - 60Mbps Microsoft Security Essentials 120mm fans x 4
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budget is about £50
video card takes up 3 slots so cant be a micro.
looking to avoid ASUS this time.
thanks for the reply any other ideas appreciated
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (Installed: Apr... AMD FX-8150 CORSAIR XMS3 CMX8GX3M4A1333C9 (4 x 2gb) ASUS EAH6950 DCII/2DI4S/2GD5 PC/Desktop home built Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (Installed: Apr 2012) AMD FX-8150 Asrock 970 extreme 3 CORSAIR XMS3 CMX8GX3M4A1333C9 (4 x 2gb) ASUS EAH6950 DCII/2DI4S/2GD5 On board 2 x LG LCD (1x DVI-D 1x VGA) 1920 x 1080 (x2) Western Digital WD3200AAKX 320gb CORSAIR TX 750w Thermaltake Arctic cooling Freezer 13 Pro Large air cooler, 3 x case fan Saitek Cyborg wired USB L.Selectron 2400 DPI wired USB optical mouse WLAN USB Dongle (n) Microsoft Security Essentials Mozilla Firefox Yamaha sound reciever 5.1
I got Asus M5A87, pretty well sorted with it. (see my profile for specs)
Windows 7 PROFESSIONAL x64 AMD Phenom II 955 Kingston 4+4GB HyperX 1600MHz Gigabyte HD6870OC My own Windows 7 PROFESSIONAL x64 AMD Phenom II 955 Asus M5A87 Kingston 4+4GB HyperX 1600MHz Gigabyte HD6870OC 1920x1080 Coolermaster SilentPRO 600W 80+ Bronze NZXT Guardian Gen 1.0 Logitech G15 U.S. Layout Steelseries XAI Laser 60/15 VDSL2+ It works :]
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thanks for the input guys
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (Installed: Apr... AMD FX-8150 CORSAIR XMS3 CMX8GX3M4A1333C9 (4 x 2gb) ASUS EAH6950 DCII/2DI4S/2GD5 PC/Desktop home built Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (Installed: Apr 2012) AMD FX-8150 Asrock 970 extreme 3 CORSAIR XMS3 CMX8GX3M4A1333C9 (4 x 2gb) ASUS EAH6950 DCII/2DI4S/2GD5 On board 2 x LG LCD (1x DVI-D 1x VGA) 1920 x 1080 (x2) Western Digital WD3200AAKX 320gb CORSAIR TX 750w Thermaltake Arctic cooling Freezer 13 Pro Large air cooler, 3 x case fan Saitek Cyborg wired USB L.Selectron 2400 DPI wired USB optical mouse WLAN USB Dongle (n) Microsoft Security Essentials Mozilla Firefox Yamaha sound reciever 5.1
Any particular reason why you are avoiding ASUS....
Windows 8.1 - 64 Bit Intel Core i5-4670K (Haswell) 8GB DDR3-RAM PC1600 CL9 ADATA XPG V1.0 black Gigabyte NVIDIA GTX 770 Graphics Card (2GB, D... PC/Desktop Self Built Windows 8.1 - 64 Bit Intel Core i5-4670K (Haswell) Gigabyte GA-Z87X-D3H 8GB DDR3-RAM PC1600 CL9 ADATA XPG V1.0 black Gigabyte NVIDIA GTX 770 Graphics Card (2GB, DDR5, PCI-E) ASUS Xonar DX 7.1 | Turtle Beach HPA 2 Samsung SyncMaster P2270HD 1080p Samsung 840 Evo 250 GB (OS only) 750 watts Zalman GS-1000 Special Edition Zalman CNPS10X Performa Logitech K350 Logitech M705 | Razer Vespula Mouse Pad Virgin Media - 60Mbps Microsoft Security Essentials 120mm fans x 4
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went with Asrock 970 Extreme 3
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (Installed: Apr... AMD FX-8150 CORSAIR XMS3 CMX8GX3M4A1333C9 (4 x 2gb) ASUS EAH6950 DCII/2DI4S/2GD5 PC/Desktop home built Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (Installed: Apr 2012) AMD FX-8150 Asrock 970 extreme 3 CORSAIR XMS3 CMX8GX3M4A1333C9 (4 x 2gb) ASUS EAH6950 DCII/2DI4S/2GD5 On board 2 x LG LCD (1x DVI-D 1x VGA) 1920 x 1080 (x2) Western Digital WD3200AAKX 320gb CORSAIR TX 750w Thermaltake Arctic cooling Freezer 13 Pro Large air cooler, 3 x case fan Saitek Cyborg wired USB L.Selectron 2400 DPI wired USB optical mouse WLAN USB Dongle (n) Microsoft Security Essentials Mozilla Firefox Yamaha sound reciever 5.1
went with Asrock 970 Extreme 3
Asrock is sister company of Asus, still good board
Windows 8.1 - 64 Bit Intel Core i5-4670K (Haswell) 8GB DDR3-RAM PC1600 CL9 ADATA XPG V1.0 black Gigabyte NVIDIA GTX 770 Graphics Card (2GB, D... PC/Desktop Self Built Windows 8.1 - 64 Bit Intel Core i5-4670K (Haswell) Gigabyte GA-Z87X-D3H 8GB DDR3-RAM PC1600 CL9 ADATA XPG V1.0 black Gigabyte NVIDIA GTX 770 Graphics Card (2GB, DDR5, PCI-E) ASUS Xonar DX 7.1 | Turtle Beach HPA 2 Samsung SyncMaster P2270HD 1080p Samsung 840 Evo 250 GB (OS only) 750 watts Zalman GS-1000 Special Edition Zalman CNPS10X Performa Logitech K350 Logitech M705 | Razer Vespula Mouse Pad Virgin Media - 60Mbps Microsoft Security Essentials 120mm fans x 4
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ASUS has good boards, i have a ASUS M5A78L-MLX PLUS and it works really well in my board and supports cpu's that are AM3+ socket for FX/Phenom II/Athlon II/Sempron 100 series processors and supports up to 8gb of ddr3 ram at 1866(OC)/1600(OC)/1333/1066MHz,ECC and non-ECC and unbuffered memory. With 1xPCIe2.0 x 16,2xPCIe 2.0 X1 and a 1 X PCs slots. Also has 10XUSB 2.0 ports.
Cost me 59.99$usd heres a link so you can take a look at it. It's a really board imho.
Newegg.com - ASUS M5A78L-M LX PLUS AM3+ AMD 760G Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
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Noticed you chose a board already, anyways still a good suggestion here just in case somebody had a similar question and were to stumble across this thread
Windows 10 64bit AMD Phenom II X4 925 (Deneb)(2.8GHz) OC 3.4GHz Corsair Vengeance DDR3 4GBX2 (8192MB) XFX HD 6870 1GB (OC)- 940MHz core, mem 1150MHz PC/Desktop custom build Windows 10 64bit AMD Phenom II X4 925 (Deneb)(2.8GHz) OC 3.4GHz M5A78L-MLX Plus Corsair Vengeance DDR3 4GBX2 (8192MB) XFX HD 6870 1GB (OC)- 940MHz core, mem 1150MHz Vizio 26' 1920x1080 / Acer 1336x768 1920x1080 60Hz /1336x768 Kingston Digital 60GB SSDNow V300/500gb HDD Western Digital 7200rpm (/WD 160GB HDD 7200rpm CORSAIR CX600 600w AZZA Orion 202 EVO cooler master hyper TX3 cpu cooler Razer DeathStalker Logitech Optical Gaming Mouse G400 Defualt on win 10 Firefox cpu is overclocked in bios
Cost me 59.99$usd heres a link so you can take a look at it. It's a really board imho. 
