New System Build, mobo choice?

kcsunshine · Dec 31, 2013

So, I have decided to finally put together a system. My interests are: light to mid gaming, music production, and minor video editing.

So far I have decided I will start with an AMD FX 8320, since I plan on OC'ing it slightly, its not worth the price difference to me. I will also get the RAM, HDD, etc.

My question pertains to the motherboard and video card. What would you recommend? I was looking at motherboards around 120$ or less, and video cards around 250$. So far I have looked at either the R9 270X (the newer ones with 4GB) or a clearance AMD card of higher speed (as I live within 20 minutes of a microcenter

. Or a GTX 760 or something similar.

Thank you!

lucasz · Dec 31, 2013

I'd get this board: http://www.microcenter.com/product/375772/GA-970A-UD3_Socket_AM3_970_ATX_AMD_Motherboard?ob=1
It is good for light overclocking.
For the GPU, I'd get a GTX 760 2GB. The R9 270X won't use 4GB, so it's somewhat pointless unless you are xfiring.

EasyLover · Dec 31, 2013

What is your prefer brand in mobo

lucasz · Dec 31, 2013

Gigabyte, Asus, AsRock... any of those would be good. I have an AsRock board that I'm very happy with. I used to have a gigabyte board that I was very happy with too.

lucasz · Dec 31, 2013

MSI makes good boards too

kcsunshine · Dec 31, 2013

Thank you! That motherboard looks good. I have been reading that the future of graphics cards might be toward AMD, because of the "Mantle" that is being released. Is this warranted? Or is the GTX 760 the best in the sub $250 class of cards?

EasyLover · Dec 31, 2013

Dear, in your budget you may check this mobo of asus

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131982

If it is light to mid gaming then you can safely choose H87 chipset rather than Z87. One such board is :

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131995

At the end it is solely your choice, what you think or feel is better go for it.

kcsunshine · Dec 31, 2013

EasyLover :

I decided to go with an AMD processor due to the 8-cores, which will help with music production. Those are Intel boards

EasyLover · Dec 31, 2013

Yup, you are right. My bad.

lucasz · Dec 31, 2013

The 760 is the $200-$250 GPU king right now. The reason I recommended nvidia is because mantle only applies to games that use the frostbite 3 engine. In games that don't use the frostbite 3 engine, the 760 is usually better.

EasyLover · Dec 31, 2013

GTX 760 replaces the GTX 660TI in terms of clock speed but not in terms of cuda cores. GTX 760 is approx 8% faster than the 270X plus it gives you support for PhysX in various games like CoD : Ghosts. Radeon HD 7950 is also a good option but GTX 760 beats its by approx 11% in speed.

Pl see the benchmark result at http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/R9_270X_HAWK/26.html

The Geforce GTX 760 makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 980 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 1502 MHz on this particular card. It features 1152 SPUs along with 96 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs. Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 270X, which features GPU clock speed of 1000 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1280 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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