What's a good AM3+ motherboard while on a budget of around $100?

Aeonarial

Aeonarial

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Im getting a MD FX-6300 Vishera 3.5GHz (4.1GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 95W Six-Core Desktop Processor FD6300WMHKBOX and I need a good motherboard but im not sure what to get.
 
Get at least a 970 chipset.
Good brands are asus, gigabyte and msi.
Any of them should do it, it really depends on your budget.
 
What's the rest of your specs? The 970 chipset s best but it has no integrated graphics.

See if you live near a microcenter
 
jonnyp11 said:
What's the rest of your specs? The 970 chipset s best but it has no integrated graphics.

See if you live near a microcenter
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I don't live near a microcenter.


TOWER RECEIVED http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147153 TOWER $55

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371031 POWER SUPPLY $70

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827135204 DISK DRIVE CD $20

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125418 VIDEO CARD $240

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236345 HARD DRIVE $90

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819113286 PROCESSOR $140

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128519 MOTHERBOARD $104

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231468 MEMORY $50

WINDOWS 7 OS $100

APPROX TOTAL= $890
 
I would recommend some changes.

Hard drive is overpriced. You will not notice the difference in speed between it and this (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148840), yet it is double the space for $10 less.

Video card can be made a 7850, which gives you enough in the same budget to get a far better motherboard.
so that would make it: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125451 which with the HDD already covered moves your Motherboard budget to 185 (110 of the board you picked and 75 saved on GPU and HDD).

with that, get one of these.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128514
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131851
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128509
All of these are far better than any 970 chipset board.
 
Reminder:
If you are getting the Windows 7 Home Premium, it has a 16gb max cap on it. I would spend the extra money and get Professional instead. Any of the motherboards that has 32gb on it, that way if you want to expand to more many at any given time in the future.
Professional has a 192gb max.
 
If he's not going to need 16GB then there's no point in getting Pro, just stick with 8GB and Home.

Wolfe's got the right idea here. Seagate Barracuda + 7850 + 990FX board.
 
930.00 after 2 promos. 7HP has 20 off in eblast.

AMD FX-6300
ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0
SAPPHIRE Vapor-X 100352VXSR Radeon HD 7950 3GB
SeaSonic M12II 620 Modular
G.SKILL Sniper Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 2133 CL9
Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB
ASUS 24X DVD Burner
7 Home Premium SP1 64-bit
 
spirit said:
If he's not going to need 16GB then there's no point in getting Pro, just stick with 8GB and Home.

Wolfe's got the right idea here. Seagate Barracuda + 7850 + 990FX board.
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Just saying, if he ever wanted to upgrade to more ram past 16gb. Home will hinder him is all. The only real reason for more ram is, if you do Autocad, video, photo and audio editing.
A lot of people don't know that the windows 7 home premium has max of 16gb of ram.
 
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