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Best AMD 970 Motherboard manufacturer??

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December 15, 2013 5:31:42 PM

I'm looking to build a new computer in the coming months, this is gonna be my first build without any friends around to give me advise on parts or to help put it together. So I'm still learning part by part about what manufactures are good and what ones I might wanna steer clear from and making my choices from that way. I plan on using this system to do everyday crap, gaming, and some video editing.

So far I'm going with:
AMD FX-6350 Vishera 3.9GHz AMD3+
AMD 970 Motherboard
Radeon R9 290 Video card
Ram-haven't decided yet
SSD 250Gig drive
1TB HD
500Gig HD(left over from old computer)
DVD/Blu-ray player
Case-havent decided yet

Right now I'm trying to nail down the motherboard. If anyone's got any good suggestions on what brand might stand out more than the rest, I'd greatly appreciate it.

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December 15, 2013 5:41:02 PM

Toysoldier84 said:
I'm looking to build a new computer in the coming months, this is gonna be my first build without any friends around to give me advise on parts or to help put it together. So I'm still learning part by part about what manufactures are good and what ones I might wanna steer clear from and making my choices from that way. I plan on using this system to do everyday crap, gaming, and some video editing.

So far I'm going with:
AMD FX-6350 Vishera 3.9GHz AMD3+
AMD 970 Motherboard
Radeon R9 290 Video card
Ram-haven't decided yet
SSD 250Gig drive
1TB HD
500Gig HD(left over from old computer)
DVD/Blu-ray player
Case-havent decided yet

Right now I'm trying to nail down the motherboard. If anyone's got any good suggestions on what brand might stand out more than the rest, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Gigabyte 970A UD3P 8+2 power phase and new VRM design - overclocking friendly
Have that and more than happy

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December 15, 2013 5:41:43 PM

Black PCB- nice look counts also :) 
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December 16, 2013 7:08:24 PM

Cool, so the Gigabyte doesn't have the same VRM heat problems like the MSI? Never done any overclocking before so I don't plan on trying it.
What is Black PCB?
I'm moving onto ram now. Was gonna go with DDR3 1866 but not sure what kind or how much?
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December 17, 2013 4:23:12 PM

It doesn't have same as MSI heat problems, you might want to overclock in a future and it's same price as other even not that overclocking friendly boards - no loss in here
Black PCB is the way motherboard (it's base(board)) looks like- so its black - coolest look ever :) 
RAM - for gaming 8 Gb is plenty, should be enough for your video editing also and if not enough you can add another 8 Gb which I doubt that you will need it, but that's option and you may have it
RAM speed 1600 is the way to go, in gaming you will see no difference between 1600 and 2133, max 1+2 fps difference in some games. If 1866 costs almost the same or 10 quid more then go for 1866 MHz as it may help in video editing, but mainly no much difference that you will notice. Believe me I have 8 GB ram HyperX 2400 MHz and it maid no difference at all in my system and games, same fps as I had 8 GB Vengeance 1600 MHz (got it because won a bid on ebay for 60 euro:) ). Have fun
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December 17, 2013 5:24:19 PM

Thanks for the help. I looked at the Gigabyte acceptable memory chart and managed to find these.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
I may go crazy and buy 2 sets, or start with one and upgrade later.
Just need to figure out what Radeon R9 290 I wanna get now. only prob with these, I've been reading they have shitty cooling. will probably have to get a aftermarket cooler.
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December 17, 2013 10:00:16 PM

Toysoldier84 said:
Thanks for the help. I looked at the Gigabyte acceptable memory chart and managed to find these.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
I may go crazy and buy 2 sets, or start with one and upgrade later.
Just need to figure out what Radeon R9 290 I wanna get now. only prob with these, I've been reading they have shitty cooling. will probably have to get a aftermarket cooler.


I have the Corsair Vengeance as well and they are AWESOME! The only problem is your graphics card but as long as you get an aftermarket cooler like you said you should be fine. There will probably be a new firmware update for your graphics card later on so the cooling actually works.
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December 18, 2013 9:58:05 AM

Toysoldier84 said:
Thanks for the help. I looked at the Gigabyte acceptable memory chart and managed to find these.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
I may go crazy and buy 2 sets, or start with one and upgrade later.
Just need to figure out what Radeon R9 290 I wanna get now. only prob with these, I've been reading they have shitty cooling. will probably have to get a aftermarket cooler.


Don't worry about memory make, these days motherboards will accept most of the RAM's especially good branded ones - accepts all of them. If you buy ram now, any new mobo will accept them (chart mostly for old systems to accept new components or vice versa). R9 290 I think is the way to go, I may get one when they come out with aftermarket cooling solution, sources say it might happen in a few weeks time from now. If you can wait a couple weeks and get a beast of a card. R9 290X with aftermarket cooling is a month or two away. Now you can buy but liquid cooling or arctic cooling 3 fan cooler needed as it's hot and loud (ncix has a video on this topic), but modifying is not easy for first time builder.
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December 18, 2013 10:30:48 AM

Yeah, plan on maybe getting the Video card last since it costs the most. So hopefully by the time I get around to ordering the R9 it may have a good aftermarket cooling system for it. I read an article here on the site that talked about modding an R9 290 card with a Arctic's Accelero Xtreme III and it seemed to work. I didn't seem to hard, a person just has to be careful doing it.

I think I've found almost everything I need. I just need to get a dvd burner and maybe a blu-ray player also for it. I still debating on how I wanna do the Hard drives. I want a Samsung 250GB SSD for my main drive and I'm pulling my old 500GB HDD from my old computer for storage. Thinking about getting a 1tb HDD as another storage drive for stuff and video editing. LOL depending on what deals, sales, or rebates I can pick everything up for, this beast is gonna run me close to $2,000. But it will last me a while.
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December 18, 2013 3:08:50 PM

Toysoldier84 said:
Yeah, plan on maybe getting the Video card last since it costs the most. So hopefully by the time I get around to ordering the R9 it may have a good aftermarket cooling system for it. I read an article here on the site that talked about modding an R9 290 card with a Arctic's Accelero Xtreme III and it seemed to work. I didn't seem to hard, a person just has to be careful doing it.

I think I've found almost everything I need. I just need to get a dvd burner and maybe a blu-ray player also for it. I still debating on how I wanna do the Hard drives. I want a Samsung 250GB SSD for my main drive and I'm pulling my old 500GB HDD from my old computer for storage. Thinking about getting a 1tb HDD as another storage drive for stuff and video editing. LOL depending on what deals, sales, or rebates I can pick everything up for, this beast is gonna run me close to $2,000. But it will last me a while.


And it will.Your system still will be upgradable good to have that. SSD will change your world, system going to fly and the rest its just storage
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