Which Mother Board?

[HoloGraham]

I am Going to be building a Gaming pc soon and I need to know what the best mobo is for gaming that supports an am3+ socket and around 80 to 120$
I am currently looking at these mother boards. I'm currently living in South America so it needs to stand up to a decent amount of humidity and it needs to support 32gb of 1866 gskill ram.

ASRock 990FX Killer
Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0
Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3  

[EarthboundHero]

I'm a Gigabyte fan boy, so the Gigabyte one.

[CoolaxGaming]

Asus is best for AMD, srsly gigabyte and asrock are mid end

[Clyne]

Asus is best for AMD, srsly gigabyte and asrock are mid end

Although Asus is 6+2 and the Gigabyte is 8+2......

[Interfectorem]

I own the Asus one and it's been driving my FX-8320 OC'ed to 4.7 Ghz @ 1.4v for about 5 months now, no problems. Although the Gigabyte does have a beefier 8+2 power delivery system as opposed to the 6+2 of the M5A99FX PRO R2.0. I would probably go with the Gigabyte board, but the Asus one is a good choice as well.

[Jumper118]

 

I am Going to be building a Gaming pc soon and I need to know what the best mobo is for gaming that supports an am3+ socket and around 80 to 120$

I am currently looking at these mother boards. I'm currently living in South America so it needs to stand up to a decent amount of humidity and it needs to support 32gb of 1866 gskill ram.

ASRock 990FX Killer

Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0

Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3  

 

the ud3 is the best as long as it a rev 4 with the heatpipe. the asus is good too and the asrock is terrible.

 

Asus is best for AMD, srsly gigabyte and asrock are mid end

asrock are awful for am3+, asus and gigabyte are on par at the top end with the ud7 and CVFZ, but at this mid range price gigabyte are a fair bit better. 

[HoloGraham]

Ok thanks, I think i'm gonna go with the Gigabyte. How do I make sure it's revision 4?

[i_build_nanosuits]

Heads-up, if you can afford this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor ($139.99 @ Amazon)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($108.00 @ Newegg)

Total: $247.99

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-01 10:09 EST-0500

Then you can afford this instead which is much better especialy in games and anything that use 6 cpu threads or less,

raw per core performance on this is MUCH higher than any highly overclocked FX:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($185.98 @ SuperBiiz)

Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($74.29 @ SuperBiiz)

Total: $260.27

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-01 10:10 EST-0500

Also for the intel you don't have to factor in the cost for an aftermarket CPU cooler in the build..

[mlbguy4life]

do yourself a favor , continue to save your money and go with intel..........you're welcome

[HoloGraham]

Heads-up, if you can afford this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor ($139.99 @ Amazon)

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 ATX AM3+ Motherboard ($108.00 @ Newegg)

Total: $247.99

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-01 10:09 EST-0500

Then you can afford this instead which is much better especialy in games and anything that use 6 cpu threads or less,

raw per core performance on this is MUCH higher than any highly overclocked FX:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor ($185.98 @ SuperBiiz)

Motherboard: ASRock H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($74.29 @ SuperBiiz)

Total: $260.27

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-12-01 10:10 EST-0500

Also for the intel you don't have to factor in the cost for an aftermarket CPU cooler in the build..

Ok, I wanted to get an intel in the first place. I just didn't know if at my budget it would be better to get the 8350 or an intel at that price.

[i_build_nanosuits]

Ok, I wanted to get an intel in the first place. I just didn't know if at my budget it would be better to get the 8350 or an intel at that price.

if you are gonna do mostly gaming and things of that nature with that machine then yes it is very likely that you will get more performance per dollar with a locked intel i5 and a H97 motherboard...you could even go with an i5-4460 and still be completely out of reach in regards to gaming of ANY amd cpu's including an highly overclocked FX 8 core...all that while consuming less power and wasting much less energy turning into heat. If you factor in all those things, a more expensive motherboard, an after martket CPU heatsink...added overclocking energy cost...you are much better with just a strong intel quad core on a slightly cheaper motherboard and using the stock intel heatsink which will be just fine.

The FX CPU limit the performance of higher end GPU's where as a locked core i5 like the i5-4460 or i5-4590 won't.

And BTW i know what i'm talking about i used to have an FX-8320 @ 4.6ghz paired with my GTX780 and it just can't keep up in many games.