Help Me Choose a Motherboard (AM3+)

Inori · Dec 3, 2013

I am stuck between two motherboards, i was wondering if someone could help me out with deciding which one to go with. The build that the board would be used on will have a FX 6300 and will be overclocked. Don't know if this helps but thought i'd include it anyway.

The two boards are:

ASUS M5A97 R2.0

or

GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3

Any help is much appreciated, thanks. ^~^

sosofm · Dec 3, 2013

GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD3

Inori · Dec 3, 2013

sosofm :

For any particular reason? or is it just the best AM3+ Board around?

aiobh · Dec 3, 2013

Do you have a budget?

sosofm · Dec 3, 2013

For AM3+ 990fx is the best chipset.
Asus : North Bridge AMD 970
Gigabyte : North Bridge AMD 990FX
Gigabyte have PCI Express 2.0 x16 x4 is much better for crossfire , SLI.

aiobh · Dec 3, 2013

Here are 3 recent threads that are very similar to your inquiry:

In these two discussions, the posters were very concerned with performance OC'ing their FX chips
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1655992/choose-am3-board.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1734474/choose-am3-motherboard.html

This thread is from someone with less aggressive OC intent but the same 6300 cpu you are interested in:

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1756205/choosing-am3-900-motherboard.html

Inori · Dec 3, 2013

aiobh :

Both boards are where I would like to be budget wise, (around 100 for mobo)

Inori · Dec 3, 2013

sosofm :

Is there a huge difference between the chipsets? Performance wise.

sosofm · Dec 3, 2013

http://motherboard.findthebest.com/compare/66-590/ASUS-M5A97-vs-Gigabyte-GA-990FXA-UD3

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