Better <£50 mobo than MSI 880GM-E41

[Cookeh]

Hey guys,

Doing a little spec-up (£250 budget) and looking at AM3 for obvious reasons.
Decided on X3 445, 4GB Geil, HD5850.

Wondering what the best board is for the remainder of the budget (around £50, no higher than £55).

Is there a better board out there than the one mentioned in title?

Thanks,
Cookeh

 

[Ultim8]

how about this http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-025-FC

Its the 790 chipset so older but it was the top end chipset.

 

[Cookeh]

Hmm, fair point - forgot about AM3 Foxconn boards.

 

[Ultim8]

yeah thats a great board for the price point plus it will allow you to add another gfx card in the future if you wanted to

 

[Cookeh]

Yep, strong overclocker as well.

Little concerned about their software and bios support though

 

[Ultim8]

there is a custom bios they made for the guys over at another big overclocking forum that is stable and allows some really good overclocks. Someone on here did link to it but i cant find it.

 

[shadow_boxer]

Yep, strong overclocker as well.

Little concerned about their software and bios support though

That's exactly what I found. Bought my first Foxconn board a in Nov 09 and its been a cracking card but there are a serious lack of driver updates and official BIOS updates.

As for a community and help, I had no end of help from here. Loads of really knowledgeable guys, few who work/used to work at foxconn. I get all my updates from there.

Cracking board for the price and looks pretty nice too.

 

[Cookeh]

Cheers for the link, looks good.

Just need to convince parents to let me buy new PC or develop the arrogance just go ahead and buy it

 

[Greavesy]

Look in the clearance lines, There are some very good am3 ones in there quite allot of the time,( theres also one in the case section of the clearance lines).