mobo for an FX6300

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Am presently looking at upgrades and i think cpu wise everyone seems to think go fx6300 (maybe 6350)

assuming thats what i do then what would make a for a good motherboard. i am very likely to want it to have optical out for audio though in theory not essential, pretty sure id rather than not still. actually good audio on it would be a plus but not very important as im sure ill be using an external DAC anyway.

probably go for ATX micro would be fine, nice to have slots if wanted at some later date. likewise would prefer 4 ram slots to two.

might do a little overclocking with it, but i wont be doing any fancy cooling so if i do do OC it wont be a huge amount.

budget wise im not particularly fussed but under 100 id expect. i dont believe i need 990x either, ithink a 970 would do as ill never sli or crossfire on it.

any suggestions? i usod ot just always go Abit but thats not an option anymore so open to suggestion, oh and i really appreciate if you might say why your suggesting something. that hopefully ill learn what the difference between everything is andhave a clue onec more what im doing. :)
 
It is the cheapest board available which is suitable to decently clock your CPU without having to worry too much about overheating VRMs. It has a 6+2 power phase and component quality quite good for the price. I would say its comparable or better than some of the 8+2 power phase motherboards offered by other brands.
 
Everything Avenged said,

I have the board on my 8320. The included software is very good, has an OC utility that you can either select Fast OC or Extreme OC and it will OC your pc for you if you don't know how to OC (would recommend you look into this OC yourself however).

Plenty of fan connections, sturdy board, well made.

Check my project log below if you want to see some pics, think I have a couple of it.

It's ASUS.
 
so is ASUS the generally accepted best mobo maker at present? just wonder how it campares to the likes of the ASRock 970 Extreme3 R2.0 or Gigabyte 970A-UD3P.

ASUS better for clocking and more reliable? much more concerned about being reliable than OCing as i wont be running too hot
 
Asus is considered the best currently for AMD motherboards because their part quality is better and some AMD motherboards have run into problems with VRMs overheating with high power fx chips but Asus has generally a very good track record when it comes down to that.

The extreme 3 is 4+1 power phasing and has no VRM heatsink. It was also designed before the introduction of new chips and a 8350 will easily have it on its kneas at stock under stress tests a lot of the time. obviously good air flow plays into it but i would avoid the situation all together by choosing a board which wont be faced with VRM heat problems.

The Gigabyte board is heading in the right direction and sports an 8+2 power design but i would still rank it around evo or maybe lower when considering component quality (dont know for sure but willing to bet the Asus ones are rated better ;)). Some of gigabytes other range of boards for the am3+ socket suffered from throttling in some revisions but not due to temperature. I never owned one of these problem boards, so i cant really expand on what the problem was but i know it wasn't related to high heat, I think i have heard someone mention it was due to the throttling limit on the CPU was too low but that sounds odd and fixable via a bios flash.

Visit the CPU sub forum and lurk around the 8320/50 overclocking thread and you will get the info you are after in a flash!
 
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I would go for the asus as well with amd. For the reasons above.
I would also pay the extra and get the 8320 if I had theni would have upgraded to Intel.
 
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