mother board shoping info

[HeavyG]

ASUS Sabertooth... Nuff Said


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He needs an expensive motherboard like he heeds another breakout of herpes.

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[WileECyte]

ASUS Sabertooth... Yeah... Nice board, but WAY more than he needs and way out of his budget.

[Badthefirst]

Best bang for the buck for you would probably be this:

AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor HDZ965FBGMBOX - Newegg.com

Newegg.com - ASRock 970 PRO3 R2.0 AM3+ AMD 970 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS

That'll have everything you should need and keep you under your $200 budget.

Everything else you have should work just fine.

Great processor, actually installed this one a week and half ago. Running with a hd 7850 1gb I am able to play arma 3 very high ultra no problem. Granted I have the 140 watt version of the processor but this was mainly so I didn't have to flash my bios.

[moving-target]

Unless you're planning on upgrading your CPU in that time period... AM3 should be fine. You'll sacrifice some computing power and it will cost more if you want to go with Socket FM2...

Here's a Socket FM2 solution:

AMD A8-5600K Trinity 3.6GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 100W Quad-Core Desktop APU - Newegg.com

ASRock FM2A85X Extreme4-M Micro ATX AMD Motherboard - Newegg.com

still around 200 so thats nice if i can keep the money i have saved and i get some reimbursment from having my truck towed by july i should have the money and hopefully there will be some sweet 4th of july sales

[SuperDavE]

I bought the FX4100 + Biostar mobo that comes with free 8GB DDR3 and it cost under 200 shipped! Check it out!

[SuperDavE]

You just need PCI-E x16 and a PCI-E x1 is nice.. but most everything uses PCI like sound cards... mostly built in sound works fine now. Really the PCIE Slot is the main thing and the processor slot needs to match up.. like AM3+ etc

[SuperDavE]

And actually the A8-a10 processors.. only get this if you have a videocard that matches up to the CPU or plan to not use the videocard. The AMD FX outperform that CPU by a bunch...

If you get the A10 with a mobo that comes with free memory you actually don't need a videocard... the GPU is on the CPU and it runs games at quite nice frames.. you can always add a matching card and it will kind of SLI the CPU and Videocard... good budget built.
Whole build is 300$ with HDD/CPU/MOBO/RAM/PSU

[WileECyte]

And actually the A8-a10 processors.. only get this if you have a videocard that matches up to the CPU or plan to not use the videocard. The AMD FX outperform that CPU by a bunch...

If you get the A10 with a mobo that comes with free memory you actually don't need a videocard... the GPU is on the CPU and it runs games at quite nice frames.. you can always add a matching card and it will kind of SLI the CPU and Videocard... good budget built.
Whole build is 300$ with HDD/CPU/MOBO/RAM/PSU

Tom's CPU charts say otherwise. The A10 and A8 both outperform the FX4100. The GPU included on the A10 & A8 can only be used in Hybrid Crossfire if it's a Radeon 6670 or lower. He's got a 7850 already. The Athlon II X4 965 I posted in the Socket AM3 setup outperforms all the cheaper FX CPUs and A10 & A8. That's why I said it was the best bang for the buck. In order to get a socket FM2 processor that outperforms the Athlon II, you have to spend more money on the higher end FX-series processors.