What's some of the best MB out there?

Briguy

Briguy

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I'm looking to upgrade my Motherboard and I was wondering what is some of the top of the line Motherboards out there that support the AMD Phenom CPU?
 
Along with Asus, Gigagbyte, and DFI you can also look over MSI, Abit, and eVGA for some good boards. Regardless of make some boards will tend to be better OCers for any plans in that area. Plus the type of build you have in mind there.
 
As far as quality Abit and MSI have pretty cheap AM2+ boards, even MSIs top end AM2+ 790FX is pretty limited on bios options compared to DFI-Asus and Gigabyte. And I dont even think EVGA even makes a AM2+ board.
 
PC eye said:
Along with Asus, Gigagbyte, and DFI you can also look over MSI, Abit, and eVGA for some good boards. Regardless of make some boards will tend to be better OCers for any plans in that area. Plus the type of build you have in mind there.
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evga does not make any boards that support the phenom
 
StrangleHold said:
As far as quality Abit and MSI have pretty cheap AM2+ boards, even MSIs top end AM2+ 790FX is pretty limited on bios options compared to DFI-Asus and Gigabyte. And I dont even think EVGA even makes a AM2+ board.
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Mine has more options than my brothers Asus M3A32, and I've used both, and mine was $40 cheaper.
 
Mr. Johanssen said:
Mine has more options than my brothers Asus M3A32, and I've used both, and mine was $40 cheaper.
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Point noted! When looking around for Asus substitutes some time back and even more so recently since Asus seems to be slipping in the last few years I have been considering the few others like Gigaabyte, MSI, DFI and Abit as most likely.

In the last 2-3yrs. it seems Asus popular for gaming builds often has been letting some bad boards out on occasion. Either they come in doa or quit on you in a brief period of time. The features and what is usually supported were the main note however.
 
PC eye said:
Point noted! When looking around for Asus substitutes some time back and even more so recently since Asus seems to be slipping in the last few years I have been considering the few others like Gigaabyte, MSI, DFI and Abit as most likely.

In the last 2-3yrs. it seems Asus popular for gaming builds often has been letting some bad boards out on occasion. Either they come in doa or quit on you in a brief period of time. The features and what is usually supported were the main note however.
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Out of these which one is the best overall in performance DFI 790FX-M2RS, GIGABYTE GA-MA790FX-DS5, Asus Crosshair II Formula, Asus M3NHT DELUXE/MEMPIPE and Asus M3A32-MVPDeluxe/WiFi
 
 
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Here I lean towards Gigabyte, MSI, DFI, even Abit if you find the right model for the build you have in mind over Asus lately. I've been running Asus boards on vaious builds for several years already but now will be looking at alternatives since their quality control occasionally seems to lack.

Abit while not being the big choice often has had a good rep for being a reliable make while not offering a lot of the features other makes see. DFI gets a slight edge in that department. Abit still has seen some good ocers at times however.
 
Abit had good boards back in the day, in the early 2000s they went to junk. Got bought out a year or two ago and trying to make a come back. But other than a Intel board here and there, there AMD boards are still very lacking. MSI makes good video cards but there boards are about the same as Abit, some good, some junk. Asus has some compatability problems, but other than that there good boards. Right now as far as non onboard video AM2+ boards DFI and Gigabyte have them beat hands down.
 
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Asus apparently suffered from popularity and increased demand and now seems to be slacking off in the board department while focusing on other things like video cards. Here I've seen some of the best results running MSI cards over Asus for sure there. I ran into on one build going through three separate cards and not have the old MSI FX5200 instead of an ATI 9550 in use on one case.

DFI often saw an edge over Abit even 7-8yrs back. At one point the toss was between DFI Lanparty and MSI Neo, Platimum models. Gigabyte came in as another contender as a possible substitute again for Asus. Feature wise however Asus, Gigabyte, and MSI seem to hold the lead with DFI shortly behind.
 
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