Which is the best motherboard for this build?

Well mainly because of the Foxconn workers committing suicide (you didn't hear about that?) is why i wouldn't choose it.
 
linkin said:
Well mainly because of the Foxconn workers committing suicide (you didn't hear about that?) is why i wouldn't choose it.
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The bad thing about it is most motherboards all have Foxconn parts. Asus/Gigabyte too. They make everything from PCB/All the slots on boards.PCI,PCIe/Sound ports/USB ports/CPU brackets/PS2 ports/Almost everthing.

Made right from there clean, well lighted, over worked people in sweatshops.
 
StrangleHold said:
The bad thing about it is most motherboards all have Foxconn parts. Asus/Gigabyte too. They make everything from PCB/All the slots on boards.PCI,PCIe/Sound ports/USB ports/CPU brackets/PS2 ports/Almost everthing.

Made right from there clean, well lighted, over worked people in sweatshops.
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But you've got to remember how many companies are like this now. Not just companies in the PC business.

Anyways, It sounds like you don't like the Foxconn because of the companies history...
 
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BurningSkyline said:
But you've got to remember how many companies are like this now. Not just companies in the PC business.
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I'm aware of that.

BurningSkyline said:
Anyways, It sounds like you don't like the Foxconn because of the companies history...
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Nothing to do with the history. Foxconn is the biggest OEM/parts manufactures or one of the biggest there is. When they first really started getting into the retail board side, their boards were just entry lowend level boards. The boards have got better over the last few years and go from lowend to upperend.

But I just have had more then the normal amount of problems with them. So I sorta stay away from them. For lowerend I would go for a Asrock/MSI or Biostar.
 
^ For AMD boards I'd take Gigabyte over Asus...very close though. DualBIOS and the other extra bells and whistles gives Gigabyte the win in my book.

MSI is in the middle, I'd say. Not bad, but not on top.

For cheaper boards, I'd avoid Biostar and the low-end AsRock and ECS boards, but the higher end AsRock boards and the ECS Black Series are pretty good.


Granted, there are exceptions to all of those.


edit: Forgot about Jetway and Zotac. Jetway is lower-end than Biostar, IIRC, and Zotac I think is on the level with AsRock but specializes in odd form factors.
 
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Okay,

I'm looking for an AM3 board under $100 that Is up-to-date and reliable.

I'm getting mixed responses.
All but the first ASUS have something said about them :P

Oh, Should I get an 7xx board or 8xx board?

Also, FX OR GX?
 
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None of above.

Since you choose GTS 450 for your build, you a most likely to use one video card, and thus, any mobo with crossfire and onboard video is not needed.

I would recommend ASUS M4A87TD/USB3
 
i pickup this for $99.00

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003DVZZLM/ref=oss_product

Its an asus nf750 meaning it is sli and since you bought a gts 450 yuou can add another one later and sli.
It is am3, dd3 etc (btw i was a bit limited in choice dude amazon international shipping policies, but i think its pretty good}
There is one draw back that the pci-ex only works at either 8x in single or 8x/8x in dual, but it will not be problem, techpowerup did and article on this and showed that even a gtx480 only suffers around a 2-4% loss in performance on x8 so a gts 450 really shouldn't have a problem.

I choose this over the msi 750 board because my P4 rig has used asus since it was built in 2003 and it is still working fine.
 
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