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Can anyone recommend a good AM3+ motherboard. My current AM2/AM3 board just died(I explain a bit about my situation here) and I'm looking to get a new board but can't decide which one to go for. I'm not looking for anything with a really high price, somewhere in the below £120/$187 range. Any suggestions?

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Well most of the boards I've been looking at are 140w or 125w.

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Well most of the boards I've been looking at are 140w or 125w.

Ok I guess a better question would be, what is your CPU.

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My current build is in my signature but if you look at my other post I linked to, I explain what my intentions are, but basically I was looking to upgrade further on down the line ideally when steamroller comes out and based on what it delivers. Unfortunately my mobo died on me the other day so I have been considering a doing a split upgrade, where I would by a new motherboard, cpu, ram and internal storage now and this will tide me over and still give me the option to add/upgrade other things later on like getting a better CPU, adding an ssd, more ram, etc.

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MSI 990FXA-GD65. It's currently 120$ on NCIX.

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I have narrowed it down to either the MSI 990FXA-GD65, ASRock 990FX Extreme 3 or M5A99FX PRO R2.0.

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I'd go with the MSI :)

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The best 990fx boards for around 140$ right now are the Gigabyte UD3 & the Asus pro.

990fx MSI boards have issues with voltage tweaking when overclocking, so I'd avoid those.

Asrock boards usually have poor cooling which in turn results in poor overclocks .

From the options you've listed I'd definitely go with the Asus pro .

However if I wasn't locked to the options mentioned above, I'd go with the gigabyte 990fx UD3, for it's BIOS features + the ability to disable one core per module on FX CPUs .

It's also a tad cheaper than the Asus 990fx pro .

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Dammit TechFan@ic!!! You're about 12hrs too late I pulled the trigger and got an MSI board. :(

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The best 990fx boards for around 140$ right now are the Gigabyte UD3 & the Asus pro.

990fx MSI boards have issues with voltage tweaking when overclocking, so I'd avoid those.

Asrock boards usually have poor cooling which in turn results in poor overclocks .

From the options you've listed I'd definitely go with the Asus pro .

However if I wasn't locked to the options mentioned above, I'd go with the gigabyte 990fx UD3, for it's BIOS features + the ability to disable one core per module on FX CPUs .

It's also a tad cheaper than the Asus 990fx pro .

Damn that Gigabyte board is sexy as ****. Just found out which board I'm getting when I do a little upgrade.
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Dammit TechFan@ic!!! You're about 12hrs too late I pulled the trigger and got an MSI board. :(
Ohh T_T sorry man, time difference .

The voltage bug is only on the FX processors, so you shouldn't have much trouble.

It's also BIOS tied, so if MSI release a BIOS update expect the bug to be fixed .

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Dammit TechFan@ic!!! You're about 12hrs too late I pulled the trigger and got an MSI board. :(
That's ok. I'll look into it and see if there is a fix.

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