Motherboard for fx 6300

Nanastick · 21 Apr 2014 at 21:11

Hi I have just ordered the below, I now need a motherboard, case and ram, I have no idea what to look for.

AMD FX-6300 Prozessor, Boxed, Sockel AM3+

Super Flower Amazon 80Plus Bronze Netzteil - 450 Watt

WD Blue 1TB 6Gb's

Gigabyte Radeon R9 270 WindForce 2X OC, 2GB GDDR5

Thanks,

Keith

mickyflinn · 21 Apr 2014 at 21:19

Whats your budget ?

Nanastick · 21 Apr 2014 at 21:22

Around 100-120

Thanks

mickyflinn · 21 Apr 2014 at 21:28

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £50.99
1 x TeamGroup Elite Black 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (TED38GM1600HC11DC01) £45.95
1 x BitFenix Merc Beta Gaming Case - Black £29.99
Total £126.92

Nanastick · 21 Apr 2014 at 21:37

Thanks,would you recommend any other motherboards? A lot of reviews on this board are bad.

mx0range · 21 Apr 2014 at 21:41

what are the reviews saying is bad with the board?

mickyflinn · 21 Apr 2014 at 21:43

Nanastick said:
Thanks,would you recommend any other motherboards? A lot of reviews on this board are bad.

Sure but i was trying to keep within your budget.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus M5A97 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £65.99
1 x MSI 970A-G46 AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £57.95

Nanastick · 21 Apr 2014 at 21:48

What about this one?

http://www.msi.com/product/mb/760GAP43_FX.html

Nanastick · 21 Apr 2014 at 21:49

1600 ram not working with it, a lot of them have been faulty and will not post

mickyflinn · 21 Apr 2014 at 21:56

The motherboard you mentioned has 760 chipset which is an older chipset and may need a bios update to take the cpu.

Here is the list of motherboards that have the latest chipset, thats what i would choose from.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?catid=1903&groupid=701&sortby=priceAsc&subid=2046

Nanastick · 21 Apr 2014 at 22:01

I will take a look. Thanks

Nanastick · 21 Apr 2014 at 22:22

Thanks Mickey Finn

Going to go with the ram and case you sugessted and this board.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-214-MS

What do you think

los · 21 Apr 2014 at 23:08

I'd always go for ASUS with AMD, one of the M5A97 if you want to OC

ttaskmaster · 22 Apr 2014 at 13:25

Nanastick said:
Going to go with the ram and case you sugessted and this board.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-214-MS
What do you think

I have that board with a 6350 on it.
I heard there are a lot of problems with overclocking, that it only supports up to a 95w CPU (which the 6350 is), that the VRM overheats and blows, etc etc...
However, I have my CPU OC'd to 4.5GHz and can probably get it higher quite comfortably. I run 2x4GB 1866MHz RAM and an OC'd GTX780 Lightning without any problems.

The Southbridge (I think) gets a little warm at over 70ºC, but decent case cooling keeps it down to the low 40s easy enough.

mickyflinn · 22 Apr 2014 at 19:25

ttaskmaster said:
that it only supports up to a 95w CPU

Not true it supports 125w cpu's

http://www.msi.com/product/mb/970AG46.html#/?div=CPUSupport

stulid · 22 Apr 2014 at 19:32

YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £74.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-UD3P AMD 970 (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £67.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3P AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £50.99
Total : £203.57 (includes shipping : £8.00).

The Asus EVO 2.0 is beefed up for FX CPU's over the non EVO 2.0 versions, also make sure there is VRM cooling on the board to prevent CPU throttling.

Nanastick · 23 Apr 2014 at 00:00

Thanks for the help lads.

Damo667 · 23 Apr 2014 at 02:32

If you had a bit more budget available I'd recommend the board I have the m5a99fx pro r2.0. At £109.99 it wouldn't leave you enough for ram and case tho. From the quality of asus boards and how pleased I am with mine I'd choose an asus everytime now but that's just my personal preference. The m5a97 is a good 'next best' choice asus wise and a lot closer to your budget so I would suggest that and it supports upto 140w so you have room to oc the fx6300 without problems and ram upto 2133mhz.

gazzaa · 23 Apr 2014 at 08:55

I have this board
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-068-AK&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=2046

i know asrock have some bad rep with the above board but from my personal experiance its been solid its cheap and its been running my fx 6300 chip for months now @ 4.5 and its been great no silly resetting that i use to have with asus boards plus im using 1600mhz teamgroup ram thats been fine too.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MY-033-TG

thats the link to the ram

ttaskmaster · 23 Apr 2014 at 11:35

mickyflinn said:
Not true it supports 125w cpu's
http://www.msi.com/product/mb/970AG46.html#/?div=CPUSupport

Yeah, that was my counter-argument, but I got shouted down by all these people claiming OCing their 8350 on this board had fried it as a result.