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General => General Discussion => Computer Talk => Topic started by: Sheep on October 05, 2013, 01:33:15 PM

Title: New Motherboard
Post by: Sheep on October 05, 2013, 01:33:15 PM: I need a new mobo, because my current one burned down for some reason.

Specs:
Mobo ASROCK AM3/AM3+ AMD880G VGA DDR3 USB3
Case THERMALTAKE V3 BLACX EDITION MID TOWER
CPU AMD FX-4100
PSU 550W 80+ BRONZE CERTIFIED WIRE
RAM 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 DIMM Kit HyperX Blu
GPU Gigabyte HD6850 1GB OC PCI-E

Budget 100€~
Title: Re: New Motherboard
Post by: Rusch69 on October 06, 2013, 01:37:11 AM: ASRock 970 Extreme4 AMD 970 - Offers additional PCIe & RAM slots + USB & SATA 3.0, good if you have more upgrades in mind.
Asus M5A78L LE AMD 760G - Less features and therefore cheaper, but still fulfilling all your needs.
Title: Re: New Motherboard
Post by: Sheep on October 06, 2013, 10:41:21 AM: Thanks. I was already checking out for that and Extreme3 board.
Title: Re: New Motherboard
Post by: AllBeast on October 06, 2013, 11:26:11 AM: Asrock=shit
use Asus or Gigabyte
Title: Re: New Motherboard
Post by: Sheep on October 06, 2013, 12:02:58 PM: Quote from: AllBeast on October 06, 2013, 11:26:11 AM
Asrock=shit
use Asus or Gigabyte
Please elaborate and tell me which Asus board replaces Extreme3(4).
Title: Re: New Motherboard
Post by: Rusch69 on October 06, 2013, 02:27:28 PM: ASRock isn't that bad anymore. It's just them still having a bad reputation, but their products are decent nowadays. If I were you, I'd go with the ASUS one in case you don't want to upgrade any further to spare some cash.

ASUS has good quality, but they're often overpriced imo. I'm all cool with Gigabyte, but dunno their AMD boards at all so I threw in those instead.
Title: Re: New Motherboard
Post by: XTO -- on October 09, 2013, 07:10:18 AM: New stuff: AsRock>Asus. Just keep that in mind, allbeast. You might wanna double check your old concepts ;)
Title: Re: New Motherboard
Post by: Flat Face on October 10, 2013, 05:08:57 AM: As far as I know, Asrock is left over/cheap asus..? but I haven't looked into it, that's just what I've been told previously.

Honestly mobo's aren't important though man, just find an asrock/asus/gigabyte/whatever one that fits your CPU/ram and has enough expansion for you, the extra bells and whistles mean VERY little.

To be honest with your budget gaming PC there's nothing wrong with cheaping out on the mobo (assuming AsRock is cheaping it), generally if you're going to upgrade anything excluding the GPU, you'll just buy a new mobo/CPU/ram and probably a GPU, so if it does the job with your current hardware, it's more than enough
Title: Re: New Motherboard
Post by: Sheep on October 10, 2013, 05:31:27 AM: I already ordered that ASRock board I mentioned above. Thanks for the head ups thought.
Title: Re: New Motherboard
Post by: Basium on October 10, 2013, 01:59:39 PM: asrock delivers durable motherboards so i think it was a good choice :)