Picking a Motherboard

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jallacola

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Okay so im looking for a mother board to fit with all the components i have chosen, i havent bought them yet so please change them if needed.

Setup:

Case: CM Storm Scout Midi Tower
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965
Graphics card: XFX-Radeon HD5770 1GB
Memory: Corsair Dominator DHX+DDr3 1866MHz 6GB
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar Green Power 1TB
Power Supply: Chieftec A-135 series 1kW PSU
Sound card: Asus Xonar DX/XD 7,1 channel
Networks card: Intel Pro/1000GT Desktop Adapter
Operative system: Microsoft windows 7 home premium.

i dont know if any of these parts fit together i just picked some components and i will work my way to a working computer from there.
 
Change

Okay i found a cheap motherboard which fit pretty much every component except the Memory, so i changed the

Corsair Dominator DHX+DDR3 1866MHz 6GB with
Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1333MHz 8GB CL9.

Motherboard: MSI 770-C45, Socket AM3, DDR3
 
If you're planning on an Xfire setup, and price is no barrier, opt for a motherboard that has 2xPCI-E slots both running x16... Because while some MB's have 2 PCIE slots, one runs at x16 but the other could be running at x8, or even x4. Just a pro-tip. ;)
 
Thanks for your help i now know what motherboard i will buy.
ive been changing some stuff to make it fit but here it is, the final(i hope).

Operative system: Windows 7 Home Premium EN
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition
Graphics card: PowerColor Radeon HD5830 1GB GDDR5
RAM/Memory: Corsair Dominator DHX+DDR3 1333MHz 8GB
Case: CM Storm Scout Midi Tower Black
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA785GT-UD3H
Power supply: Chieftec A-135 series 1000W PSU
Hard drive: Western Digital Caviar Green Power 1TB
CD-reader/burner: Samsung Super-WriteMaster SH-S222A

I decided to drop the Sound and network cards because i believe it was included in the Motherboard both the ethernet cable entrance and headphone jack.
 
NVX_185 said:
If you're planning on an Xfire setup, and price is no barrier, opt for a motherboard that has 2xPCI-E slots both running x16... Because while some MB's have 2 PCIE slots, one runs at x16 but the other could be running at x8, or even x4. Just a pro-tip. ;)
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The performance difference between running x16 x16 and x8 x8 is very minimal and in some cases not noticeable. Just a pro tip

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/crossfire-meets-pci-express,1761-3.html

And those are older slower cards
 
jallacola said:
Thanks for your help i now know what motherboard i will buy.
ive been changing some stuff to make it fit but here it is, the final(i hope).

Operative system: Windows 7 Home Premium EN
Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition
Graphics card: PowerColor Radeon HD5830 1GB GDDR5
RAM/Memory: Corsair Dominator DHX+DDR3 1333MHz 8GB
Case: CM Storm Scout Midi Tower Black
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA785GT-UD3H
Power supply: Chieftec A-135 series 1000W PSU
Hard drive: Western Digital Caviar Green Power 1TB
CD-reader/burner: Samsung Super-WriteMaster SH-S222A

I decided to drop the Sound and network cards because i believe it was included in the Motherboard both the ethernet cable entrance and headphone jack.
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Woah whoa whoa, hold on, you need to swap out a few things.

- Swap out that rubbish PSU for an OCZ ModXstream Pro 600w

- Swap the HDD for a Samsung Spinpoint f3 1tb

- Swap out the CPU for an AMD Phenom ll 955 Black edition Has a lower power consumption, OC's better and is cheaper (can be easily OC'ed up to 3.4ghz - the 965's Clockspeed)

- Swap the GPU for an Saphire 5850

And the DVD Writer to an Liteon IHAS 324

Good luck with the build, don't forget to post some pics when you're done :)
 
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Graphics card

I faced a problem :( the Radeon HD 5770,5870 and 5850 needs PCI-E 2.1 and my motherboard has got 2.0, so is there any almost as good graphics card i can use? or another motherboard?
 
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