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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 09:11:00 No.51018272 View Reply Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51018600 >>51019852 >>51019955 >>51020272 >>51020847 >>51022641 >>51023452 >>51024368 >>51024387 >>51024401 >>51027885 >>51031353

Gentlemen, (and ladies)

Which motherboard is the best kind to buy?
Specific brand names tend to confuse me sometimes until I read up on reviews, but I want your /g/eeky reviews on certain ones
MSI?
ASUS?
ASRock?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 09:24:10 No.51018411 Report Delete

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Asus
Fuck msi

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 09:42:50 No.51018590 Report Delete

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Msi
Fuck asus

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 09:43:46 No.51018600 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51028610

>>51018272
Fuck Asus
Kill ASRock
Marry MSI

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 09:44:25 No.51018611 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51028610

ASUS and MSI are both good
But fuck Asrock

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 10:00:03 No.51018788 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51019118

I've had 3 different gigabyte motherboards over the past 8 years and they've never given me any problems

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 10:24:32 No.51019118 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51025172 >>51030518

>>51018788
Gigabye has alots of problems with electical surge all what they say is a lie , the last year i changed it twice , asus and msi are trusty motherboards

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 10:25:21 No.51019132 Report Delete

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>and ladies
Do you know where you are?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 10:28:05 No.51019170 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51020823 >>51022443

What is the best cheap motherboard for a FX 6300? Preferably mATX

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 10:29:40 No.51019194 Report Delete

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>gentlemen
>and ladies

>>>reddit

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 11:01:24 No.51019624 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51019963

Asus make the best AM3+ boards by leagues.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 11:07:54 No.51019709 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51025028 >>51028610

MSI

ASRock is cheap
Gigabyte skimp on everything
ASUS is just fucking ASUS

MSI are off their fuckin' rocks, but they make some good stuff.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 11:17:18 No.51019852 Report Delete

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>>51018272
Asus
Asus usually has more features for the same price

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 11:19:30 No.51019882 Report Delete

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Asus best with worst warranty
everything else ok with ok warranty

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 11:25:24 No.51019955 Report Delete

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>>51018272
Asrock's hardware is supposedly fine now.

But their driver installation is fucking garbage:
I practically forced me to install an Ask.com toolbar (malware).
And the only way to avoid it was by manually installing every driver separately.

Never had any problems with either Asus or MSI.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 11:25:52 No.51019963 Report Delete

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>>51019624

The only other company to make a mobo that supports those 200w monsters is ASRock and nobody with any brains would risk putting 200w through an ASRock board.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 11:30:19 No.51020018 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51020048 >>51020088 >>51020226 >>51024368

All of these companies are cheap Taiwanese fucks looking to make a profit on razor thin margins and will skimp wherever they can, whether that's directly on components or on QC probably depends on the specific mobo.

Your best bet is to buy one when plenty of reviews are out, but there's no magic bullet.

Anyone that claims that one company is better than the other is either delusional or shilling for that company. They're all the fucking same.

>cue anecdotal evidence that Taiwanese Red Team Shit is better than Taiwanese Blue Team Shit

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 11:32:36 No.51020048 Report Delete

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>>51020018
This. Only things you should be looking for in a mobo:
Layout/ACTUAL features you want
CPU VRM phases if you OC
% of amazon/newegg reviews that are 1* to gauge how likely you are to have to return it day one

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 11:33:37 No.51020067 Report Delete

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Really depends on the board, every brand has good models and poor models.
For the most part any motherboard will be fine, the days of the truly dreadful motherboards are gone.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 11:35:05 No.51020088 Report Delete

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>>51020018
Pretty much this.
There are general trends sure, but you're really needing to review products on a case by case basis. Tedious I know, but a good motherboard should last year's (5 years on my asrock so far, 4.5ghz 2500k and it's still going strong with no CPU lag (usually))

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 11:44:11 No.51020226 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51020821

>>51020018
You mean excellent Taiwanese quality?

Because we are arguing about the higher end brands here.
The vast majority of computers have bottom of the barrel mainland China Foxconn motherboards made by suicidal slave laborers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 11:46:39 No.51020272 Report Delete

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>>51018272
That is actually the exact motherboard I have. I love it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 12:25:55 No.51020821 Report Delete

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>>51020226
>excellent Taiwanese quality
Yeah, I mean I guess their QC is probably a notch above Foxconn-suicide-factory level workmanship but keep in mind these MSI/ASUS/ASrock/Gigabyte mobos are being asked to be compatible with a wide range of brand new components. We're not talking about mass producing a cookie cutter motherboard for use in a prebuilt or the mainboards that go in coffee makers.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 12:26:16 No.51020823 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51022443

>>51019170
Msi 760gma -p34

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 12:28:05 No.51020847 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51022484

>>51018272
Anything with flashy heatsinks or a word related to gaming in it is overpriced garbage.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 14:33:39 No.51022443 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51022615

>>51020823
>>51019170

Unfortunately if you want mATX boards for AMD you're stuck with either FM2+ (better choice) or the 760GM chipset for AM3+ (dinosauric garbage even a couple years ago). I used the MSI 760GM to build a spare parts PC for my parents about a year ago. It works I guess but that's the best I can say for it. I couldn't use all the SATA ports with a full length graphics card, the front panel connectors are inconvenient. It only has 2 ram slots. And unfortunately it only supports 95W processors max.

So MAYBE you're FX 6300 will work, I know for sure I couldn't drop an FX 8320 in it without the VRM's burning out on me. I wouldn't recommend buying it.

P.S. FWIW I was using an ASRock 990FX Professional since mid-2012 and although I loved the boards look and features, it up and died on me a month ago for no apparent reason, and I babied that thing too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 14:37:21 No.51022484 Report Delete

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>>51020847
Wrong.

The quality of the hardware is independent of what the marketing department try to brand it as. Many have correctly pointed out in this thread that motherboards should be looked at on a case by case basis and here you are, bringing us back to /g/ level posting with such a sweeping statement.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 14:42:08 No.51022550 Report Delete

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I used to always want a dfi lanparty board. Are those still relevant in this day and age?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 14:46:43 No.51022615 Report Delete

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>>51022443

>FX 6300 will work, I know for sure I couldn't drop an FX 8320 in it without the VRM's burning out on me

An 8320e has a TDP of 95w - the same as the 6300 (and this its a better chip in just about everyway). The 8370e has a similar TDP but the increased cost of the chip makes me feel its not worth it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 14:48:11 No.51022641 Report Delete

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>>51018272
EVGA over everything.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 15:41:23 No.51023452 Report Delete

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>>51018272
ASRock and nothing else.
MSI is shit.
ASUS fucks up too much.
Whatever remains isn't worth mentioning.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 16:42:17 No.51024368 Report Delete

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>>51018272
ASUS and EVGA have done me good.

I've had issues with only one ASUS board, RMA'd it's still serving 5 years later without issues.

MSI's BIOS can suck my dick, and I don't know if my friend is retarded, but he's gone though 3 MSI boards and a Gigabyte board. He's on an EVGA one now, I'm not sure if he's just a fucking tard or if he's just been unlucky. But the EVGA one has lasted longer than any of the other ones. In about a month, all of them put together.

Never used ASRock.

Gigabyte has been okay if you don't overclock, or get an overclockable board. I've had too many issues with those just tanking after any voltage increase.

Biostar in about 2008 was trash, not sure about today. But after buying 6 boards from them, and RMAing all but one, and one of them 3 times. I'm not buying them ever again. Not sure of how they are today.

>>51020018
Also this. Get what you want/need. Other shit is just sprinkles on the ice cream.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 16:43:34 No.51024387 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>51018272
Gigabyte

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 16:44:21 No.51024401 Report Delete

Quoted By:

>>51018272

Whatever you can put a Zen in

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 17:00:05 No.51024651 Report Delete

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Looking for a mATX x99 board.

Unfortunately it seems ASrock makes one of the better boards in this segment (specs wise) without spending a little more on the Asus X99-M WS.

Is Asrock really as bad as you guys say?

Seems people have an issue with thin pcbs judging by the user reviews I see online.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 17:22:26 No.51025028 Report Delete

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>>51019709
>>51019709
>Gigabyte skimp on everything

MSI are the ultimate jews in that regard

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 17:33:43 No.51025172 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51025248 >>51025466 >>51030518

>>51019118
My gigabyte fried last just last night. Day after return window.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 17:38:14 No.51025248 Report Delete

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>>51025172

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 17:41:19 No.51025303 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51025430 >>51025466

Which Z170 board allows you to use an M.2 port without fucking taking away SATA ports or PCIE slots?
Fucking everyone and their mother forces you to either give up two SATA ports or a PCIE3 slot once you slot one of these fuckers in.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 17:48:07 No.51025430 Report Delete

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>>51025303
bate mate? I cant tell

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 17:50:40 No.51025466 Report Delete

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>>51025172
call em anyways and see if you can get a one time replacement

>>51025303
This has to do with the chipset, it's not board specific.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 18:04:17 No.51025752 Report Delete

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>>51025028
MSI source pls

http://us.hardware.info/reviews/5835/spot-the-differences-gigabyte-motherboard-revisions-present-markedly-different-test-results

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 18:27:44 No.51026209 Report Delete

Quoted By: >>51027912

Is a z97-a overkill for my 1231v3? I've been trying to figure out what motherboard would go good with it for a while and settled on the z97-a but /g/s advice would be appreciated

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 20:12:57 No.51027885 Report Delete

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>>51018272
MSI Skylake motherboards all have USB 3.1.

Gigabyte and Asus are still on USB 3.0
Haven't paid attention to Asrock.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 20:14:51 No.51027912 Report Delete

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>>51026209
Why the fuck would you get a Z97 when the xeon can't even be overclocked? the Xeon will run fine on a H81 or B85 board, most you would need is the H97, but I doubt you even know what featuresets are different.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 20:26:14 No.51028077 Report Delete

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Gigabyte Asus Msi Asrock boards have all been good for me, still have all of them and could power them up if i wanted to.

Only Mobo i ever bough that took a shit on me was a Biostar brand, that was like 10 years ago.. so stay away i guess..

Honestly at this point the only difference in buying them is what features are the best for your buck.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 21:02:02 No.51028610 Report Delete

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>>51018600
>>51018611
>>51019709
I am really surprised at how many people are recommending MSI. All the advice and reviews I found said to avoid them in the past.

Well, next time I build a computer I'll try them out.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 22:59:31 No.51030518 Report Delete

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>>51019118
>>51025172
On geeze now you guys have me worried

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 23:51:51 No.51031169 Report Delete

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I'm helping.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 00:05:51 No.51031353 Report Delete

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>>51018272
Asus is my personal preference, but I've never had any issues with msi boards

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