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I'm going to build my first PC in a couple of months with an FX-8350, and I'm torn between motherboards.  I think I've narrowed it down to three and want you guys to help me out.

 

Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3

ASRock 990FX Extreme9

Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0

 

I'm kind of leaning towards the Gigabyte board but noticed that it doesn't have SATA3.0 and was wondering if that really makes a difference.  I would be using an SSD for the OS along with a HDD for storing everything else.  If you would like to recommend a different board as well then go right ahead.  I plan on possibly doing an overclock in the future also, so it needs to have that capability.

AMD FX-8350   -   Gigabyte GA-990FX-UD3   -   ADATA XPG 8GB   -   Asus GTX 780   -   Fractal Design Define R4   -   Corsair CS650M


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I'm going to build my first PC in a couple of months with an FX-8350, and I'm torn between motherboards.  I think I've narrowed it down to three and want you guys to help me out.

 

Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3

ASRock 990FX Extreme9

Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0

 

I'm kind of leaning towards the Gigabyte board but noticed that it doesn't have SATA3.0 and was wondering if that really makes a difference.  I would be using an SSD for the OS along with a HDD for storing everything else.  If you would like to recommend a different board as well then go right ahead.  I plan on possibly doing an overclock in the future also, so it needs to have that capability.

 

Gigabyte do have SATA3.0 They just call it by the bandwith of SATA3.0 which is 6Gbp/s 

 

Personally I'd go with the ASUS Sabertooth or Gigabyte, avoid the ASRock with at least 4 barge poles of distance. 

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Gigabyte do have SATA3.0 They just call it by the bandwith of SATA3.0 which is 6Gbp/s 

 

Personally I'd go with the ASUS Sabertooth or Gigabyte, avoid the ASRock with at least 4 barge poles of distance. 

Oh alright.  I guess I didn't really look that closely.  Thank you very much good sir!

AMD FX-8350   -   Gigabyte GA-990FX-UD3   -   ADATA XPG 8GB   -   Asus GTX 780   -   Fractal Design Define R4   -   Corsair CS650M


Kingston 120GB SSD and Seagate Barracuda 1TB   -   CM Storm QuickFire Rapid   -   Razer DeathAdder 2013

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Sabertooth for the win.

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UD3 if you can bear a 100+ restarts just to overclock that CPU.

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I would go with the Sabertooth. I've heard issues with the other two boards, and with the Sabertooth, only that people switch to it because it's a better overclocker than others.

if you have to insist you think for yourself, i'm not going to believe you.

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Not considering the Asus M5?

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Sabertooth!!

 

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