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MOBO SHOWDOWN

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Hi i am building a low-end budget gaming pc , parts i have decided on:

CPU: AMD APU A8 7600

PSU: PSU CORSAIR VS SERIES VS550 - 550W

GPU:none for now

RAM: RAM G.SKILL F3-2133C10D-8GSR 8GB (2x4gb ) DDR3 2133MHZ CL10 SNIPER DUAL CHANNEL KIT

AND NOW FOR THE SHOWDOWN

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ON THE

BLUE CORNER WITH ASUS

--->

ASUS A88XM-PLUS

VS

GA-F2A88XM-D3H

<--- ON THE

RED CORNER WITH GIGABYTE

LADIES AND GENTS WHICH ONE IS BEST VALUE FOR MONEY?

3...2...1...!!FIGHT!!

asus link : https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/A88XMPLUS/

gigabyte link : http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4716#ov

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Gigabyte, but that is a low end gaming PC. Just saying

Planning on trying StarCitizen (Highly recommended)? STAR-NR5P-CJFR is my referal link 

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Asus, much better UEFI BIOS, overall Asus got much better quality than Gigabyte.

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Asus, much better UEFI BIOS, overall Asus got much better quality than Gigabyte.

xD my 8 year old G31M-ES2C and my friend's socket 7 Gigabyte motherboards are laughing their chipsets off :)

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xD my 8 year old G31M-ES2C and my friend's socket 7 Gigabyte motherboards are laughing their chipsets off :)

Yeah your dead chipsets can laugh all they want.

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Yeah your dead chipsets can laugh all they want.

Nice, but they still work and the G31 could teoretically OC a celeron 430 to 7GHz.

Off-topic: I just got a P67 Extreme4

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Can go with Asus A88XM Plus which is easy to overclock and much more.

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Guys I have 1 quick question.

- when a mobo says in specs this: 2400Mhz (OC) for ram. Does it mean that I need to overclock my mobo to support ram sticks with 2400 speed?

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