A thread for cheap motherboard buyers

[Techhog]

I agree....Why do you think they call it a Mother Board for? It's what you should spend the extra money for. Not that everyone needs a 300/400 MB, but with those parts you should spend 150+ for sure.
You paired up all good components on a cheapo MB? WHY?

The only way I could afford to spend that much on a board is to cut down the CPU, which kills the point of getting an expensive board. :/

Edit: Though, I'm talking sub $120 in my case, for obvious reasons.

 

[Peter Nixeus]

The only time I spend more than $150 for a mobo was for our servers...

 

[Gillbot]

Yeah, OK, buddy. Talk to me when you've put high end components in cheap motherboards. They aren't going to explode or die. You've bought into a lot of marketing.

I was just wondering if anyone here has done it.

To add to the confusion of the PCI-Express x16 lane: In the manual it shows a diagram with it saying it's PCI-Express 3.0 x16. I don't know if they just did a copy-paste from another manual and forgot to change it to 2.0... or if it's really 3.0.

Again, anyway to test this?

I put a 3770k and 4x8GB DDR3-1600 ram in the cheapest LGA1155 mobo I could find. It ran fine for a couple years till a bad BIOS update bricked it.