Best AM2+ motherboard brand(make)?

musicman53

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Hi,
thinking of replacing my Abit KN9 Ultra with 2.8GHz cpu with AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 7850+ Black Edition and suitable motherboard.
Not really into AM3 yet so AM2+ will do for what I need.

Have always had motherboards without onboard graphics and to be honest, would not make use of that.

Do all the AM2+ boards have onboard graphics?.
If not, what boards come without it?.
Also the 790FX would not be any use to me as I just use a single graphics card.
Saying that, what is left?
780 or 790X?
Or only 780 or 790GX?
Last of all, what brand(make)is best?
 
You cant go wrong with Asus boards.
I have a m4a78-e which is a 790gx.It's am2+ and am3 ready.
I had a dfi matx 790gx and replaced it because it had a problem.
The two things i like about the asus is that you can disable the onboard gpu and it comes with a switch card.You use the card on one of the pci-e slots if you only run one graphics cards to make the slot full 16x speed.The dfi board's pci-e slots only ran at 8x
Hope this helps
 
Kennysevenfold said:
what is the rest of your system.?
will you be overclcoking.?
and do you have a rough budget in mind you want to keep.?
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Rest of the system will be from current setup.
OCZ Titanium XTC2T800C42G(2GHz kit)4-4-4-15 2T
Geforce 9600GT
Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum
WD 6400AAKS
WD 5000AAKS
WD 4000AAKS
CPU will be the Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 7850+ Black Edition
May overclock it.
Only budget really is for the motherboard, max cost of that to be around £140
 
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