Best budget mATX fm2+ motherboard?

[ThatSemiConductor]

Hello! I am new to the whole PC building thing, so I am starting out with a small mATX budget build. The CPU that I will be using is an AMD Athlon X4 860k, so it must be a fm2+ mobo. This is the [PCPartPicker part list](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/zNpFNG) ir you want to see the rest of my build. Thanks!

[MahtXL]

Hello! I am new to the whole PC building thing, so I am starting out with a small mATX budget build. The CPU that I will be using is an AMD Athlon X4 860k, so it must be a fm2+ mobo. This is the [PCPartPicker part list](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/zNpFNG) ir you want to see the rest of my build. Thanks!

Ive been quite happy with this cheap asus am3+ look into anything by them even there low end boards are pretty great. ill go find the best one i can for you. one second.

[MahtXL]

Hello! I am new to the whole PC building thing, so I am starting out with a small mATX budget build. The CPU that I will be using is an AMD Athlon X4 860k, so it must be a fm2+ mobo. This is the [PCPartPicker part list](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/zNpFNG) ir you want to see the rest of my build. Thanks!

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/A55BME/  this seems to be there cheapest. 

[KemoKa]

What's your absolute budget?

[iHardware Shelden]

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/A55BME/  this seems to be there cheapest. 

Great board ^^^^

[ciprian97pop]

Hello! I am new to the whole PC building thing, so I am starting out with a small mATX budget build. The CPU that I will be using is an AMD Athlon X4 860k, so it must be a fm2+ mobo. This is the [PCPartPicker part list](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/zNpFNG) ir you want to see the rest of my build. Thanks!

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-a88xme

this would do the job for you

it's prety cheap and has an x88 chipset so you can oc a bit your cpu

[Nena Trinity]

If you want from MSI then go V2 then you can add a Kaveri without any worry of BIOS update!

[ThatSemiConductor]

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-a88xme

this would do the job for you

it's prety cheap and has an x88 chipset so you can oc a bit your cpu

 

Great board ^^^^

 

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/A55BME/  this seems to be there cheapest. 

Do you guys have experience with these boards? I have heard some good and some bad about them

[iHardware Shelden]

Do you guys have experience with these boards? I have heard some good and some bad about them

I have the H81 variant of this board and have yet to have any problems with it, also for the price it is hard to beat.

[ciprian97pop]

Do you guys have experience with these boards? I have heard some good and some bad about them

i don't have any experience with that board but i have with this one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-GA-F2A88XM-DS2-M-ATX-Motherboard-Socket/dp/B00FQ8ARSQ

i didn't had any problems with it

[Prysin]

From my experience, ASrock has a fantastic BIOS for OC...

 

stay away from gigabyte, their bios (and board in general) is just MEH.... they are not bad, just really really bland and basic. Even the most costly ones.

[ThatSemiConductor]

From my experience, ASrock has a fantastic BIOS for OC...

 

stay away from gigabyte, their bios (and board in general) is just MEH.... they are not bad, just really really bland and basic. Even the most costly ones.

I don't have plans for overclocking, but i will look into it

[ThatSemiConductor]

i don't have any experience with that board but i have with this one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-GA-F2A88XM-DS2-M-ATX-Motherboard-Socket/dp/B00FQ8ARSQ

i didn't had any problems with it

That mobo you have, would it meet my criteria?

 

[Prysin]

I don't have plans for overclocking, but i will look into it

the mobos i have used are the ASrock A88XFM2+ ITX and Gigabyte A88X FM2+ ITX....

 

in general, ASrock bios is just more detailed and more user friendly..

[ThatSemiConductor]

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asus-motherboard-a88xme

this would do the job for you

it's prety cheap and has an x88 chipset so you can oc a bit your cpu

I was looking at Asus's website and they have three different variants of the A88Xm motherboard. Do you know the difference?

[MahtXL]

I was looking at Asus's website and they have three different variants of the A88Xm motherboard. Do you know the difference?

usually just basic features, like usb 3, or a few extra sata slots, maybe some extra ram slots. So on.

[ThatSemiConductor]

usually just basic features, like usb 3, or a few extra sata slots, maybe some extra ram slots. So on.

so any of them would be fine?

[MahtXL]

so any of them would be fine?

just make sure its the smaller form factor you want, and that it has all the slots for what you need otherwise though they should all do just fine.

[ciprian97pop]

That mobo you have, would it meet my criteria?

 

the only criterie you have from the op is being fm2+ but i thiught that it would be nice for the motherboard to have an x88 chipset so you can oc your cpu

 

 

 

 

I was looking at Asus's website and they have three different variants of the A88Xm motherboard. Do you know the difference?

i don't know the specific differences but here's how things work

let's  take the motherboard i recommended to you. it has all the things you could want in a motherboard like sata6gb/s usb 3

going down a tier and a few bucks you'd probably get less sata ports

going down again you'd lose the usb3 headers from the motherboard

and so on till you get to the cheapest motherboard without any usb3 ports, no humidity or surge protection and lowest quality capacitors

[ThatSemiConductor]

the only criterie you have from the op is being fm2+ but i thiught that it would be nice for the motherboard to have an x88 chipset so you can oc your cpu

 

 

 

 

i don't know the specific differences but here's how things work

let's  take the motherboard i recommended to you. it has all the things you could want in a motherboard like sata6gb/s usb 3

going down a tier and a few bucks you'd probably get less sata ports

going down again you'd lose the usb3 headers from the motherboard

and so on till you get to the cheapest motherboard without any usb3 ports, no humidity or surge protection and lowest quality capacitors

thanks!

[Guest trucker2]

I have the A68hm-ess from MSI (non V2) with a 7850 and the Gigabyte 88 chipset one with a 7870k. Like both.

The 68 chipset is there new budget chipset for Kavari and has PCIE 3 and Sata 3 and USB 3 support and came free with the APU. I have used the catalyst overclocking tool and it froze at 4.5 but I keep it stock cause franky the board is not rated for the 7870k, just the 7850k.

  With a big card like the r9 380 the card will overhang the chipset cooler and it is cheap and does get warm Like a 486 dx/2 50 before we started using cpu coolers. I took that card back(nothin wrong with it, I got a bad MB decided to postpone that entire build and use what was supposed to be an HTPC as my main gaming rig.

  I have DSL so downloading games is a multi-day process. As a truckdriver I start the download and return 3 days later and everything is fine. I don't believe in space aliens or VRM problems. I would recommend the V2 version.

   The 88 board was costlier and nicer. I may overclock it when and if I upgrade it to a dGPU. The 88 can take 2400 mem and the 68 will only go to 2133. This is really only an issue with an APU. If you have a microcenter nearby check them out....they will save you money on a few things. The combo was like 110 for the APU/MB. Mem was more expensive.

Hope this helps some