May need to buy today

[hosoke]

Looking at this Mobo
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138317

it looks solid and there is going to be a shell shocker for 99.99 at some point today. I'd like an opinion on it, going to put in a i3 2100 at the moment, bring up to 2500k in 6 mo's to a year. The other decisions are practically made at this point on the system

EVGA GTX 460 1GB
Got RAM G.Skil 8GB x 1600 37.99 on shell shocker last week.

 

[DelroyMonjo]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157271
Asrock Ex3 Gen 3, Totally adequate for your needs. Can SLI and X=fire.
Biostars MB's a suspect.

 

[Area85Gaming]

+1 to Delroy

Just looking at the BioStar MoBo, it looks poorly made. I would definitely look at an ASRock or cheap ASUS MoBo to suit your needs.

 

[hosoke]

What about this MSI:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130583

 

[Area85Gaming]

Question: Are you using an SSD and HDD for this rig? If so, what size is your SSD?

If it is under I would say 90GB, you need to look at Z68 boards so that you have SSD cache ability. Basically what it does is cache all the most used applications on your SSD from your HDD (OS, Games, etc.) That way your rig runs much smoother at faster speeds.

 

[hosoke]

I've not gotten any SSD yet, just running a sata2 500gb. SSD blows the budget at this point in time.

 

[CaedenV]

I like the MSI boards for the P67 chipsets, but if you need the features of x68 then run away from MSI.
extreme3 gen3 does seem to be a good board so far. Only problem I have had is that fan1 only wants to run at full speed. I am having one other problem, but I am fairly sure it is Corsair's fault, not AS Rock's.

 

[hosoke]

Best answer selected by hosoke.

 

[CaedenV]

confirmed! bad ram, the AS Rock board is fine