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Hello everyone, I'm gonna buy an intel i3-3220 cpu and i've seen two good deals, one with an asrock H61M-DGS motherboard, and the other with an ASUS P8H61-M LX3. The price is the same, witch one would you guys recommend?

On the diferent topic, sorry for putting it on the same question, im thinking on buying a xfx hd 7770 GPU. Do I need some special cooling system or with the stock will be OK?

 
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Both make good boards. Asus has always been a bit higher up the food chain that Asrock. In fact at one time Asus owned Asrock. They used to make OEM boards. But Asrock has "come of age" lately and has been making good boards. My only complaint with Asrock is the thickness of their board's PCB. Quite thin. Has a tendency to warp during shipping. I had one so badly warped, I couldn't get all the mtg. screws in w/o fear of cracking a solder trace from the pressure of bending it back in place. Had to RMA it.

The HD 7770 w/stock cooling is fine in a normal well ventilated case.
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Both make good boards. Asus has always been a bit higher up the food chain that Asrock. In fact at one time Asus owned Asrock. They used to make OEM boards. But Asrock has "come of age" lately and has been making good boards. My only complaint with Asrock is the thickness of their board's PCB. Quite thin. Has a tendency to warp during shipping. I had one so badly warped, I couldn't get all the mtg. screws in w/o fear of cracking a solder trace from the pressure of bending it back in place. Had to RMA it.

The HD 7770 w/stock cooling is fine in a normal well ventilated case.
 
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