Hi, I'm looking for a new motherboard for my custom build. This computer was a prebuild from HP, but i moved it to a different case, got an r9 270 OC Gaming from MSI, and a new power supply, so me being the ten year old I was, I didn't pay attention to the fact that the GPU would be bottlenecked by the low end APU this PC came with. (AMD A8 6500k). I am currently running an MSI Jasmine 7778 motherboard (HP exclusive or something) , the 6500k, 500 w PSU, 270 OC, 8gb of some weird HP memory (works fine) and Windows 10. I am looking to upgrade to a new motherboard (whole reason of this thread) and an FX 8320. The version of windows on here is OEM, so I've taken that into account, so I know that I'll need a new version of Windows also. So, any low budget motherboards that would work? (I've looked at the 970 gaming/krait editon from MSI, and those are the max I'm willing to spend) Also, the FX 8320 wont bottleneck anything, correct?
I'm looking for a low budget AM3 + motherboard, for my build upgrade.
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it should be compatible, i have a msi 990 fxa gd 65 i got for under 100, awesome mobo and i run a fx 6100
All you need to do is google the model number of the motherboard and under their support page it will tell you what cpus are supported (and by what bios version) and what ram is guaranteed to be supported: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4591#dl
If you get a board from a large vendor that will have very fast inventory flow of the board then it should have no worse then a 2 month old bios on it. If you get the board from a local store that might not move inventory fast then the board could have a year old bios on it and not support a newer cpu out of the box (not that fx cpus are new).
In regards to memory, the board will support many more models of ram then what in on that list but those are ones that gigabyte themselves tested with their board and guaranteed to be compatible. If you get something not on that list then you risk being in limbo between the RAM company and the Mobo company both pointing fingers at each other instead of warrantying the bad product.
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