Advice on buying gaming motherboard please


  1. Posts : 69
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (Installed: Apr 2012)
       #1

    Advice on buying gaming motherboard please


    after much strife with my old board i gave up trying to fix it
    here are the spare parts that i will be using to rebuild my system

    AMD Phenom x4 960T 3.0ghz
    ASUS EAH 6950 DCII 2gb
    CORSAIR XMS3 CMX8GX3M4A1333C9 (4 x 2gb)
    CORSAIR TX 750w
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

    can anyone recommend a decent budget board to put it all on? would be a great help

    thanks
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  2. Posts : 324
    Windows 8.1 - 64 Bit
       #2

    Depends on your budget really....

    ASUS MB M5A78L-M/USB3 AMD AM3+ uATX 90-MIBG70-G0EAY00Z

    Gigabyte GA-880GM-USB3 Motherboard Phenom II Socket AM3 AMD 880G RAID Gigabit Ethernet (rev 3.1)

    ASRock 880GMH-USB3 Motherboard AMD Socket AM3 AMD 880G + AMD SB710 ATX Gigabit LAN (Integrated AMD Radeon HD 4250 Graphics)

    .... all these are full of features and cost around £50
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  3. Posts : 69
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (Installed: Apr 2012)
    Thread Starter
       #3

    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 :)
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  4. Posts : 2
    Windows 7 PROFESSIONAL x64
       #4

    I got Asus M5A87, pretty well sorted with it. (see my profile for specs)
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  5. Posts : 69
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (Installed: Apr 2012)
    Thread Starter
       #5

    thanks for the input guys

    looks like a good board might have to go with ASUS after all
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  6. Posts : 324
    Windows 8.1 - 64 Bit
       #6

    Any particular reason why you are avoiding ASUS....
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  7. Posts : 69
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (Installed: Apr 2012)
    Thread Starter
       #7

    went with Asrock 970 Extreme 3

    avoiding Asus to avoid incompatibility i'm uneducated in all this lol
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  8. Posts : 324
    Windows 8.1 - 64 Bit
       #8

    carlocgc said:
    went with Asrock 970 Extreme 3

    avoiding Asus to avoid incompatibility i'm uneducated in all this lol
    Asrock is sister company of Asus, still good board
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  9. Posts : 3,168
    Windows 10 64bit
       #9

    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
    EDIT:
    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
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