Whats a good Mini Atx or Micro Atx AMD motherboard

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Sidney Lee-Cottle

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Okay well I originally bought a Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 was going to do a military build, But now I want to smaller PC for Lan partys.
What Im going to put in this PC which will be in a Corsair 350D
AMD FX 8350 (Corsair h100i)
AMD 7970 X2 (in crossfire)
SeaSonic 850W Psu
Corsair dominator platinum 2x4gb 1886mhz
128gb SSD
2TB Harddrive
 
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The FX-8350 is not on the CPU support list of : MSI 760GM-P34, MSI 760GM-E51 ,ASRock 960GM/U3S3 so there is no guarantee that your CPU will work optimal there. Out of your options I would take the GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-USB3 although it limits you to 1333mhz RAM its is overall better than the other 2 biostar motherboards . But to be honest ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3 is by far the best micro ATX motherboard for AM3+ out of all your options , but maybe you do not like the looks of it
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First of all I want to infrorm you that there are not any hardcore gaming AMD AM3+ socket mini-ATX mobos yet so they might seem to you 'cheap'. Here are my suggestions:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA3KX16D4425
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131942
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA3KX16D4385
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA3KX16D4387
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA3KX16D4365
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131795

Some comments about these. If I was to choose considering brands I would go ASUS>GIGABYTE>ASRock . For me the best one in the ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3 cause it has 32 GB RAM limit it support fast RAM sticks and is has usb 3.0 ( although I do not know a lot about VIA compared to Realtek for audio ) . If you want more than 1600mhz RAM then you go either ASUS or ASRock . GIGABYTE falls a little behind for me cause of memory speed and capacity limitations .
 
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I do not think there is any AM3+ motherboard right now with 2 x PCI-e x16 . I double checked newegg, amazon and the official websites of ASUS, GIGABYTE and ASRock. Maybe I didn't check carefully I don't know...
 
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Sidney Lee-Cottle

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Mhmm, Thanks for that :)
So if I get this mobo http://www.mightyape.co.nz/product/ASRock-960GM-VGS3-FX-AM3-AMD-mATX-Motherboard/21768478/
It will be sweet for just 1 7970? Then in the future when hopefully a better mobo comes out with 2 pcie x16 slots I could upgrade to that?
 
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Sidney Lee-Cottle

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Okay guys so I did some looking around and just double checking if any of these motherboards would be all good! Please tell me if not as well as which one you reckon is better and more suitable for me thanks guys. :)

http://www.outletpc.com/yi4573.html?utm_source=yi4573&utm_medium=shopping%2Bengine&utm_campaign=pcpartpicker&utm_content=MSI%2B-%2BMotherboards%20%3E%20AMD%20Socket%20AM3

http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-A880GZ&c=CJ#

http://www.outletpc.com/zb1225-biostar-a960d-amd-760g-microatx-motherboard.html?utm_source=zb1225-biostar-a960d-amd-760g-microatx-motherboard&utm_medium=shopping%2Bengine&utm_campaign=pcpartpicker&utm_content=Biostar%2B-%2BMotherboards%20%3E%20AMD%20Socket%20AM3

http://www.superbiiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-760-P34&c=CJ#

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157323

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=13-128-565%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20
 
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The FX-8350 is not on the CPU support list of : MSI 760GM-P34, MSI 760GM-E51 ,ASRock 960GM/U3S3 so there is no guarantee that your CPU will work optimal there. Out of your options I would take the GIGABYTE GA-78LMT-USB3 although it limits you to 1333mhz RAM its is overall better than the other 2 biostar motherboards . But to be honest ASUS M5A78L-M/USB3 is by far the best micro ATX motherboard for AM3+ out of all your options , but maybe you do not like the looks of it
 
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