best mother board for fx6300 (gaming)

chubbyathy

As title says any help going to be first build just doing my research now tia

hare05

ASRock 970 Pro3 R2.0 gets my vote. Cheap, cheerful and supports everything you'll want for a gaming pc.

chubbyathy

ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3 what about that board

Christy92

If you're on a budget you could go for this

http://www.dabs.ie/products/gigabyte-78lmt-s2p-am3--amd-760g-ddr3-atx-7Y42.html?q=GA-78LMT-S2P&src=16

I use this one with the 6300 and it's actually dropped further in price since I got it 5 months ago. Be wary though that if you use this your overclocking potential is really limited. But I've never needed to they work great together!

hare05

chubbyathy wrote: »

ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3 what about that board

Better to get something in the 9xx series as they support AM3+ CPUs out of the box. That one may or may not need a BIOS update before it can support the CPU you're buying: See here

chubbyathy

Christy92 wrote: »

If you're on a budget you could go for this

http://www.dabs.ie/products/gigabyte-78lmt-s2p-am3--amd-760g-ddr3-atx-7Y42.html?q=GA-78LMT-S2P&src=16

I use this one with the 6300 and it's actually dropped further in price since I got it 5 months ago. Be wary though that if you use this your overclocking potential is really limited. But I've never needed to they work great together!

Actually that's not a bad price my budget for mono is around 70e

Christy92

That'll get you a decent board, but I've had no issues with mine. But like I said you have to be sure you won't want to overclock in future though!

BloodBath

I wouldn't go mad buying higher end overclocking boards. You could buy a fairly basic matx socket 1150 board and an i5 4440 for similar money. Where are you buying all of the parts and what's your budget.

chubbyathy

BloodBath wrote: »

I wouldn't go mad buying higher end overclocking boards. You could buy a fairly basic matx socket 1150 board and an i5 4440 for similar money. Where are you buying all of the parts and what's your budget.

I'm looking for board for amd been honest I'm just buying as I go along different pieces every week thinking of buying of dabs.IE going to spend about 600

Christy92

chubbyathy wrote: »

I'm looking for board for amd been honest I'm just buying as I go along different pieces every week thinking of buying of dabs.IE going to spend about 600

If your buying from Dabs you should pick your parts and buy all at once you'll get free delivery and save a good chunk of your budget

Steviemoyne

Go for what hare05 said I think (I'm not expert on motherboards or pc hardware, the price is what I think is good plus features over other boards), the 970 PRO3 R2.0. It's a nice price with free delivery from amazon at £51.14 and not that old of a board compared to the dabs one (for just a little extra).

That board on dabs also only supports two types of DDR3 ram according to this website and a maximum of 8GB (which is all you'd need for gaming but for near enough the same price you get a board with 4 slots instead of 2 and support for up to 32GB ram).

Actually that website really sums it up the loss you get in going for that board over spending a little extra for a 970, there's quite a difference. Fair enough you may not use the extra stuff I don't know but for nearabouts the same price you get more...that board by rights should be less as it doesn't stand up to a 970 at all.

The worst hit I can see is that the Gigabyte board only has SATA 3GB/s and the PRO3 has SATA 6GB/s so if you're buying an SSD (which you probably are) you won't get the full benefit of having an SSD.