Trouble choosing mobo

womwom

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hi

i am looking to build a computer but besides the other parts, E5200, one hdd, one optical, and a 4670, I am having trouble choosing a mobo. I want a relatively cheap mobo that is reliable but I have chosen the following 3, but don't know which one to choose. So can you help me out or suggest another budget mobo?
(btw, i am not really looking to OC, but it could be a possibility in the future, just want something stable and easy to use)

GIGABYTE GA-EP43-DS3L
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813128347

ASUS P5QL PRO
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813131329

MSI P43 Neo3-F
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813130185

cheaper is welcome, but these are the 3 that I am deciding upon.

Thanks!
 

IH8U

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Flip a coin between the Gigabyte, and the ASUS. Drop the MSI (overpriced POS). Either the Gigabyte, or ASUS (I prefer Gigabyte) will out perform the MSI, and both have much better support (not to mention better BIOS'es). I'd also get some DDR2 800 RAM (cheaper, and will OC to the lvl of the 1066). 4 Gigs or more on the RAM (use a 64bit os if more than 4GB).
 
I fixed your links.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128347
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131329
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130185

I'd pick the MSI (4 PCI slots, that's rare and can be very convenient). The Asus has 3 and the Gigabyte 2.The MSI also has 8 SATA ports (the others only 6).

All three of them would support 5 hard disks, a DVD burner, a sound card and a TV tuner, for example. But then if you want to add a modem the Gigabyte won't do. And then if you want to add another HDD or two only the MSI would allow it.
Mind you, all these things can be solved with USB devices so it's not really that important.
 


Frankly I'm not impressed with Gigabyte's or Asus' support so far. I'll take your word for it that MSI is worse, since I never tried it. :)

What do you mean "outperform"? Better fps in games while using the same CPU/GPU/RAM? Higher overclocking?
 

womwom

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So I decided that I will probably be going with the gigabyte d23l p43 because my games aren't that super video oriented so I won't be needing an upgrade. Only possible upgrade would probably be just adding maybe another hard drive, but besides that, probably nothing really.

Thanks and tell me if you had any personal experience with this board
 

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