Motherboard Bottlenecking !!??

[Dinkar1462]

I am planning to buy 990fx board and pairing it with sempron processor with plans to upgrade to top of the line piledriver or steamroller after almost an year.

Should i buy a chepo 50$ board and upgrade the whole platform latter or go with what i was going for.

Also i am adding a 7750 for mild gaming, hope that will not bottleneck anything.

[SnypeUXD]

A motherboard won't bottleneck anything as long as its not completely crap. Just buy a decent cheap board like any MSI or Asrock board and you should be fine.

[Glenwing]

Agreed, as long as you get a half decent board there's not really such a thing as motherboard bottlenecking. That said there aren't really any "cheapo" 990FX boards. You can get a 970 board though for a pretty low price.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130679

[mgsstar]

There arn't any 990FX boards that are $50. The cheapest 990FX board that I could find was the Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 for $130 with mail-in rebate included at Newegg Canada: http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128514&Tpk=Gigabyte%20GA-990FXA-UD3&IsVirtualParent=1

[Dinkar1462]

I was talking about a 970 or 780 board only for 50$ board.

So what are your thoughts about getting a decent 990fx board with sempron now and upgrading with piledriver/steamroller after an year

OR get a cheap motherboard and upgrade the whole platform latter, keeping in mind intel haswel will be in the market by then and also amd socket for piledriver might change...??

[ExDreamer]

Next gen amd cpu steamroller would still use AMD 3+ socket. If you planning to stick with amd,go for 990fx but if you decided to wait for intel,you can buy 970fx board.

[mgsstar]

Next gen amd cpu steamroller would still use AMD 3+ socket. If you planning to stick with amd,go for 990fx but if you decided to wait for intel,you can buy 970fx board.

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[Dinkar1462]

Thank you for your suggestions, I am now going for gigabyte ga-990fx-ud3.

[mgsstar]

Thank you for your suggestions, I am now going for gigabyte ga-990fx-ud3.

Good choice! :) Glad you solved your question.