ASRock?

[MarvinKMooney]

Basically is it a good mother board brand? or is it bad or even hit or miss.

 

More to the point is ASRock FM2A88x+ BTC a good board?

 

Any one have any suggestions to a good cheap mother board for under $100 for a APU series AMD CPU

 

 

 

Thanks in advance.

[Guest Kloaked]

I think for FM2+ they're fine.

I have one for LGA 1155 and it does not like my i5 being overclocked sometimes.

[flibberdipper]

Hit and miss. My dad's old Socket 939? board was freaking awesome, but my last AM3+ board was fucking terrible.

[DoubleY]

My ASRock board is fine. 

[i_build_nanosuits]

Basically is it a good mother board brand? or is it bad or even hit or miss.

 

More to the point is ASRock FM2A88x+ BTC a good board?

 

Any one have any suggestions to a good cheap mother board for under $100 for a APU series AMD CPU

 

 

 

Thanks in advance.

well...if you have 100$ for an FM2+ motherboard OP i would defenetly pick something else, 100$ in this market should get you pretty much the best or close to it, those would be my suggestions:

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/gigabyte-motherboard-gaf2a88xup4

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130754&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=

 

Both of these fully support SLI/crossfire...

[Epis]

ASRock is pretty good these days, but honestly, I wouldn't recommend the BTC boards because they are designed for cryptocurrency mining and don't have a lot the features you would normally see on a motherboard.

 

MSI A88X-G45 is a better choice.

[i_build_nanosuits]

Also OP i would mention that if the intention for this build is gaming, i would go with athlon 750K along with an R7 260X or GTX 660 GPU...this will give much better results for about the same price!

 

This won't cost much more than the APU kit isnt it?

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 760K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($84.73 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: MSI A88X-G43 ATX FM2+ Motherboard  ($82.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 660 2GB Video Card  ($142.98 @ Newegg)
Total: $310.69
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

 

 

Even cheaper, still outperform the APU's in everything:

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 750K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor  ($79.49 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: MSI A88X-G43 ATX FM2+ Motherboard  ($82.98 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: PowerColor Radeon R7 260X 1GB Video Card  ($84.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $247.46
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

[MarvinKMooney]

would it still beat out A10-7850k?

[i_build_nanosuits]

would it still beat out A10-7850k?

 

yes, the A10-7850K graphics processor is the same that was found on the previous gen radeon HD7750 cards

 

HD7750 vs R7 260X

http://home.anandtech.com/bench/product/1140?vs=1044

 

You can see that the R7 260X is almost twice as fast...

 

Also you should be advised that the speed of the RAM you use with an APU is very important therefore to get best results you need to buy faster more expensive RAM...

whereas if you go with a GPU + CPU solution you can pick the cheapest 1333mhz ram.

 

What resolution are you going to play your games at ?

 

SOURCE:

 

AMD A10-7850K – The Flagship Kaveri APU For FM2+ Platform

The AMD A10-7850K is presumably the flagship Kaveri APU for 2014 which would replace the Richland A10-6800K APU. The A10-7850K has four Steamroller cores and 512 GCN stream processors which bring its performance on a level equivalent to the Radeon HD 7750 in terms of graphics performance. The A10-7850K has a max compute of 856 GFLops which is impressive yet slightly lower than the 1 TFLops class APU AMD mentioned a few months back

http://wccftech.com/amd-announces-a107850k-kaveri-apu-specifications-architectural-details-launching-14th-january-512-gcn-cores-28nm-steamroller/

[MarvinKMooney]

1680 x 1050 nothing special and its not for me, I'm trying to build a inexpensive computer for my kids to play some games on it probably only thing that would be intensive would be StarCraft 2 just want to make it cheap but with decent parts so I don't have to RMA stuff or at least have the best chance to not have to and make it last.

[MarvinKMooney]

Just made up my mind I will be getting that CPU you suggested the Athlon X4 750k trinity 3.4 ghz.

[i_build_nanosuits]

Just made up my mind I will be getting that CPU you suggested the Athlon X4 750k trinity 3.4 ghz.

yes that's a good choice, get a good enough graphics card to go along, the R7 260x as i mentionned is plenty for that resolution it will run anything they will throw at it even modern games like battlefield 4 for example.

you want suggestion for an entire build? just tell me what you need and budget...do you need a copy of windows, peripherals to be included in the budget etc...

i'm out for the night gonna catch up some sleep but let me know if you need anything ill be back tomorrow!

[MarvinKMooney]

I got the rest of the build set up and figured out so far I have an extra monitor atm they I will be using for it as well as a keyboard and mouse, I just had a huge brain fart for the GPU as I'm replacing my reference R9 290x with sapphires vapor-X so ill have that card to pop in there which should be way more then enough. but thank you a lot for all the help!