Motherboard buying advice

mehri76

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Hi. My PC's Motherboard doesn't works well anymore! so I'm looking for an upgrade.
I'm need this features:
1. Support for HD 7000 series and the new R series graphic cards.
2. Support for at least intel quad core CPU.
SLI, CrossFire and Over clocking is not important for me. And finally my budget is limited to under 130$.
what would your suggestions be?
thanks in advance.
 
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according to your budget,
MSI Z77MA-G45 will be fine motherboard for you.
let me know if you want to change the processor or want any different motherboard because you've decide that processor very quickly.
take your own time and decide which processor you want.
Ghost has a point, let us know what processor you plan on purchasing, also give a price range of how much you are willing to spend on the mobo and/or build and then we can recommend specific motherboards that fit your needs and budget.

For example, we could recommend the ASRock H61MV-ITX Mini ITX for $50 all the way up to ASUS Maximus V EXTREME that sells for $370.

Really?! so imagine that I'm with core i5. It seem I'm should upgrade my CPU faster!
The i5 is a completely different generation of processor and will requires a different cpu socket than the P4.
 

mehri76

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OK.
The CPU: Intel Core i5-3350P
and price: under 130$


 
also if you look at any asus z87 boards you need to look over the specs. theres a few things missing off them that there now compleatly scratched off my buy list.. like no com/serieal/rs-232 header witch is importante to me on a board. if i did not catch that and bought there board it would have a costly mistake.
 

GhosT_Hv

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according to your budget,
MSI Z77MA-G45 will be fine motherboard for you.
let me know if you want to change the processor or want any different motherboard because you've decide that processor very quickly.
take your own time and decide which processor you want.
 
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mehri76

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Thank you really. Actually, I doubt buying an Intel Core i5-3350P or Intel Core i3-4130. so if you don't mind, please give me a recommendation for that too. Anyway thanks.
 

GhosT_Hv

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As you Mentioned Earlier, you want atleast quad-core CPU but Intel i3-4130 is a dual core cpu.
I know that i3-4130 is newer than the i5-3350P but then also i5-3350P is better than i3-4130.
I would recommend you to buy i5 rather than i3. :)
 
I also recommend getting an i5 over an i3.

Check out the following mobos for an i5...At the high end of your budget, the ASUS P8Z77-V LK for $129.

At a lower price point, the BIOSTAR TZ77A for $85.

Good price to performance ratio, the ASRock Z77 Extreme4 for $99.

I have used just about every make of motherboard over the years, recently I have found ASRock to be good quality and reliable. Generally speaking, the big makers like Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, and ASRock make good quality mobos that work right out of the box.

In the end, I recommend you read some reviews and the specs of each mobo and determine if it will fit your needs and budget.

 

GhosT_Hv

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Then you should go for Biostar TZ77A because it has 1 x PCIe x16 slot for 1 GPU and has 2 x PCI slots where MSI Z77MA G45 has 2 x PCIe x16 slots for GPU and you don't need that and it doesn't have any PCI slot for any other components like LAN Card or Sound Card.
 


With both the LAN and sound being offered on the motherboard, there is no need to limit which motherboard you buy simply because it does not have PCI slots. The fact is a 16x PCIe slot can also be used to install a PCIe LAN card (if not using the onboard LAN) or install a PCIe sound card (if not using the onboard sound). The days of "needing" PCI slots are gone with the move to PCI-Express as it can accept PCIe based daughter cards. So, it does not matter than the additional x16 PCIe slot is intended to be used for a 2nd video card, a 1x PCIe sound card will work just fine in a x16 PCIe slot.

Not to disqualify what Ghost said, but you do not have to limit your motherboard choices just because one board has more PCI slots than another; the only time that really applies is if you want to recycle old PCI component cards. The onboard LAN and sound solutions are just as good, if not better, than adding in a separate LAN or sound card and do not require using a PCI or PCIe slot. However, if you do use a separate component card, then you can still use the x16/x4 PCIe slots providing you have a PCIe sound or LAN card.

The fact is, I have not used a separate LAN card in many years and only use the onboard LAN. Also, regarding the sound card, if you use a AMD based GPU, it comes with the AMD High Definition Audio device, which is effectively a sound card on the GPU. I use the AMD High Def Audio which replaced my 5.1 Creative X-Fi PCIe audio card so I could free up the x4 PCIe slot for a RAID card.

Bottom line, if you're using the onboard LAN and sound, the the number of PCI and/or PCIe slots should not limit your choice of motherboard.
 

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