What is a good ITX motherboard for gaming AMD or Intel under $150

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If you're going to use it with anything moderately powerful, you'd be better off going Intel. If it's just a basic HTPC box, that opens things up a lot. I have some AMD E-350 ITX boards which are decent low power basic computers for either HTPC or basic office apps. If you have to have something newer, the new quad core J1900 based units are good and -very- low power (sub 10w).

For something more powerful, Intel gets the nod since they have such a broad set of CPUs to choose from from dual-core, dual-core hyperthreaded, full quad core, or full quad hyperthreaded. I've always had good luck with Gigabyte boards, and they have a B85 based ITX board, with integrated WIFI, HDMI, DVI, USB3/2, 2 DIMMS, and a full length PCIe slot for...
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If you're going to use it with anything moderately powerful, you'd be better off going Intel. If it's just a basic HTPC box, that opens things up a lot. I have some AMD E-350 ITX boards which are decent low power basic computers for either HTPC or basic office apps. If you have to have something newer, the new quad core J1900 based units are good and -very- low power (sub 10w).

For something more powerful, Intel gets the nod since they have such a broad set of CPUs to choose from from dual-core, dual-core hyperthreaded, full quad core, or full quad hyperthreaded. I've always had good luck with Gigabyte boards, and they have a B85 based ITX board, with integrated WIFI, HDMI, DVI, USB3/2, 2 DIMMS, and a full length PCIe slot for under $100.00
 
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Ok that is a good choice and thanks for your help and time !!
 
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Is there some for quad core for gaming like battlefield 4- battlefield hardline game ?


 
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First, I would exclude amd on two counts:
1. AMD has only a limited number of ITX motherboards, and they are FM2+ which do not support strong gaming cpu's. If you are looking at a non upgradeable apu based system, then amd is a possibility.

2. AMD cpus are reasonable values for multithreaded apps, but not for gaming which depends on a few(2-3) fast cores.

On the Intel side, you are looking, I think at a lga1150 motherboard.
If your cpu might be a overclockable "K" chip, then you want a Z97 based motherboard.
The cheapest will be a asrock Z97M-ITX/AC at $100 or so.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157531
I am using this board, and it is ok.
The one issue I have with it is that the wifi antenna connections are thin and do not easily attach to the wifi daughter board.

 
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The Gigabyte GA-B85N board I mentioned supports everything from i7 down to Celerons, and has a full PCI-e x16 slot for whatever video card you might want to toss in there provided your case and PSU will handle the electrical and thermal load...
 
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