Good FM2+ Motherboards

SketchSlayer

SketchSlayer

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Well I'm a gamer and my current mobo is fine for a lower end gaming rig but I will need to replace it in the coming year most likely and I'm looking for ideas (also for some weird reason this mobo only supports overclocking for a very specific line of cpus which mine isn't even though mine supports overclocking)

I'd want something for an atx tower dimension wise with a fair few slots for various cards as I intend to run a few gpus in crossfire at some point and I want to get both an actual sound card and an internal networking card since my wireless usb adapter is finicky to say the least.

I'd say I'd want a minimum of 4 ddr3 (or if any current boards use it ddr4) ram slots and around 6 sata ports I believe as I intend to leave a few free for when people I know need things done to their drives or I need to salvage what files I can from old machines etc and I use 4 myself.

Also I prefer boards that have ps/2 ports for kb/m (believe that is the port name) so I am not forced to get an adapter for my mouse.

I believe those are all my requirements unless I totally missed something obvious.
 
johnb35 said:
If you can find it, you can get something like this.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132054

Didn't know if you would want a micro atx board or not. But gigabyte makes a good one here.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128659
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looking at the whole small board cooling thing size issue I noticed in my thread on that I assume micro atx boards would be a terrible idea (not to mention fitting the like 4 or so pci-whatever ports on a board that size would be a little unexpected

Unless my measurements are being done horribly wrong somehow which I don't think they are (or mini is far smaller than micro which sounds wrong).

the first board looks promising if I can find it with decent shipping rates.
 
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So far searching even for places in nz that stock anything in the way of A88X boards all I can find that ships here are either one about twice as expensive that I didn't check the size of and ones that suffer the issue of being tiny boards...

Gawd I hate my country with it lack of anything good in the way of tech and extremely hiked up pricing.
 
StrangleHold said:
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4709#ov
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Not a bad board but I would rather a normal atx board rather than micro/mini as I feel it would work a lot better with the case n all.
edit: oops, the ones nz sites list seem to be mini versions of those...derp
Also newegg actually willingly ships this board to nz which is unheard of from what I've seen of other boards though the charge $48 -$69 (something like 1/3rd -half the board cost lul) nz depending on shipping choice, least this one is a viable option thanks dude.
 
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I've got this board myself and it served me well until now. ASRock has some quite nice offerings when it comes to what you get for the price:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157457

You can do some very nice overclocking on this one. If you're only using the iGPU for gaming, I'd recommend to buy high-speed ram as they give APUs a very nice performance boost.
PS: AMD sent me this board for a review of the A10 7850K, they wouldn't send this board with it if they weren't entirely sure if the board would deliver maximum performance.
 
I enjoy my A88XM Gaming from MSI. Picked it up for pretty cheap.

Lots of great features, it looks great, only problem is that it's mATX.

I'll be trying to contact some companies soon to see what I can build and test for a review. I'm getting back into YouTube :)
 
C4C said:
I enjoy my A88XM Gaming from MSI. Picked it up for pretty cheap.

Lots of great features, it looks great, only problem is that it's mATX.

I'll be trying to contact some companies soon to see what I can build and test for a review. I'm getting back into YouTube :)
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Nice, do they give it to you for free? If so, send me all the stuff you don't want :D
 
Lol.. All free parts that aren't superior to mine will go into a computer for my little brother first haha.. If I even get anything..

I do have to say another thing about the A88XM Gaming. If you add a second card for CrossfireX, it interferes with the USB and front panel connectors. So, you'd have to buy extra 90° adapters. It's awesome for only one card though.
 
SmileMan said:
I've got this board myself and it served me well until now. ASRock has some quite nice offerings when it comes to what you get for the price:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157457

You can do some very nice overclocking on this one. If you're only using the iGPU for gaming, I'd recommend to buy high-speed ram as they give APUs a very nice performance boost.
PS: AMD sent me this board for a review of the A10 7850K, they wouldn't send this board with it if they weren't entirely sure if the board would deliver maximum performance.
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Pretty sure my current board runs a max of 2133 ram which is why I currently run with that.

C4C said:
Lol.. All free parts that aren't superior to mine will go into a computer for my little brother first haha.. If I even get anything..

I do have to say another thing about the A88XM Gaming. If you add a second card for CrossfireX, it interferes with the USB and front panel connectors. So, you'd have to buy extra 90° adapters. It's awesome for only one card though.
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Gawd damn, have enough issues with the frontpanel with my current setup, my msi board has something against the front audio ports making me have to **** around to swich from headset to speakers and back...
 
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