Hey, I'm going to building my first pc very soon and have already selected a lot of the components, however I'm really stuck on the motherboard and it would be great if some of the more experienced pc builders/tech savvy people could help me out here.
I'm going with an AMD-FX8350 CPU and the GPU is going to be a GTX 780, I would like overclocking capabilities but PCIe 2.0 (x16) is a must. If I was to overclock I would be pushing it to about 4.8gHz maximum (going to use a cpu water cooler).
Another must is also USB 3.0 headers at the front, but when a case says they have USB 3.0 but doesnt mention anything about headers, does that mean its only got usb 3.0 at the back of it and i won't be able to hook up the usb 3.0 at the front of the case??
I picked out some motherboards, budget is real tight so I would only be looking at the cheapest of the cheapest motherboards that present the most bang for buck, so far I've picked out these:
Asus M5A97 R2.0 - £70
MSI 990XA-GD55 - £75
ASRock 970 Extreme4 - £77
£80 would really be pushing it, any opinions on those boards would be great, they seem to provide the x16 PCIe 2.0 that would be able to support a GTX 780 and have usb 3.0 (not sure if they have usb 3.0 headers to connect to the front???) however I'm really unsure on the overclocking capabilities on these.
If anybody owns these motherboards or knows a lot about them please feel free to give some advice, any help is appreciated as I don't want to buy one of these motherboards and then find out I can't hook up usb 3.0 at the front of the case or that I can't overclock my FX-8350 to atleast 4.5gHz.
I'm going with an AMD-FX8350 CPU and the GPU is going to be a GTX 780, I would like overclocking capabilities but PCIe 2.0 (x16) is a must. If I was to overclock I would be pushing it to about 4.8gHz maximum (going to use a cpu water cooler).
Another must is also USB 3.0 headers at the front, but when a case says they have USB 3.0 but doesnt mention anything about headers, does that mean its only got usb 3.0 at the back of it and i won't be able to hook up the usb 3.0 at the front of the case??
I picked out some motherboards, budget is real tight so I would only be looking at the cheapest of the cheapest motherboards that present the most bang for buck, so far I've picked out these:
Asus M5A97 R2.0 - £70
MSI 990XA-GD55 - £75
ASRock 970 Extreme4 - £77
£80 would really be pushing it, any opinions on those boards would be great, they seem to provide the x16 PCIe 2.0 that would be able to support a GTX 780 and have usb 3.0 (not sure if they have usb 3.0 headers to connect to the front???) however I'm really unsure on the overclocking capabilities on these.
If anybody owns these motherboards or knows a lot about them please feel free to give some advice, any help is appreciated as I don't want to buy one of these motherboards and then find out I can't hook up usb 3.0 at the front of the case or that I can't overclock my FX-8350 to atleast 4.5gHz.