Best £70 AM3+ Motherboard?

Yebol · Feb 5, 2014

Hi folks, so I'm looking to buy a new am3+ motherboard for around £70, it needs cpu support for an fx-8320, have a usb 3.0 header (I think its called that >.<), be full atx, have at least 4 RAM slots and have the possibility to Xfire, it also needs room to fix a corsair h60 as I will be buying one very soon. I hope you can give me some ideas on what to get because I dont really know where to start.

Thanks Yebol

Dark Lord of Tech · Feb 5, 2014

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme3 ATX AM3+/AM3 Motherboard (£72.88 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £72.88
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-02-06 01:13 GMT+0000)

ASRock DuraCap (2.5 x longer life time), 100% Japan-made high-quality Conductive Polymer Capacitors
Digi Power, Supports AM3+ Processor, 8-Core CPU
Supports Dual Channel DDR3 2100(OC)
Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™, 3-Way CrossFireX™ and CrossFireX™
Supports NVIDIA® Quad SLI™ and SLI™
2 x USB 3.0, 5 x SATA3, 1 x eSATA3
Supports ASRock XFast RAM, XFast LAN, XFast USB Technologies
Supports On/Off Play, Graphical UEFI, AXTU, APP Charger, Turbo UCC
7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection
Free Bundle : CyberLink MediaEspresso 6.5 Trial, 1 x 3.5mm Audio Cable

sora · Feb 6, 2014

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks

Motherboard: ASRock 990FX Extreme3 ATX AM3+/AM3 Motherboard (£72.88 @ Amazon UK)
Total: £72.88
(Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.)
(Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-02-06 01:13 GMT+0000)

ASRock DuraCap (2.5 x longer life time), 100% Japan-made high-quality Conductive Polymer Capacitors
Digi Power, Supports AM3+ Processor, 8-Core CPU
Supports Dual Channel DDR3 2100(OC)
Supports AMD Quad CrossFireX™, 3-Way CrossFireX™ and CrossFireX™
Supports NVIDIA® Quad SLI™ and SLI™
2 x USB 3.0, 5 x SATA3, 1 x eSATA3
Supports ASRock XFast RAM, XFast LAN, XFast USB Technologies
Supports On/Off Play, Graphical UEFI, AXTU, APP Charger, Turbo UCC
7.1 CH HD Audio with Content Protection
Free Bundle : CyberLink MediaEspresso 6.5 Trial, 1 x 3.5mm Audio Cable

You beat me to it, but this is probably the best motherboard for the price.

Yebol · Feb 6, 2014

sora :

This is the thing you see, I saw these and thought they were amazing but when I look in the CPU support list it doesn't have the fx-8320 in their, that's the reason why I'm getting a new motherboard because my previous temporary mATX ASRock motherbaord doesn't have fx-8320 support either which is the reason why it underclocks my computer when it gets to 45 celsius, even after I turn off CnQ and C1E and stuff like that. :/

Personnally I have been looking at the Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 because it looks like a good board with fx-8320 support but I don't know wether it'll be a good overclocker for the price (I'm looking to get to about 4 Ghz with the Corsair h60).

Dark Lord of Tech · Feb 6, 2014

M5A97 EVO R2.0 < Not a great overclocker.

davcon · Feb 6, 2014

Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3
http://www.lambda-tek.com/GA-990XA-UD3-GIGABYTE-AMD-AM3-990-4-DDR3-14-USB2-0-4-USB3-0-GBE-LAN-ATX-MOTHERBOARD~cs/B686950&origin=skinflint6.8

Dark Lord of Tech · Feb 6, 2014

I looked into it and they removed the FX8320 and FX8350 from the support list do to heat issues.

Sorry.

Dark Lord of Tech · Feb 6, 2014

Get the one davcon linked.

Yebol · Feb 7, 2014

Hi Blackbird, thanks for all of your answers you've been very helpful in this motherboard choosing conquest. I assume that's why I have a problem with mine currently because they must have removed all of their support for FX8320.

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