Best motherboard for gaming? (AMD processor)

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raGe93

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I was just wondering what is the best motherboard for gaming that supports only AMD processors, but please don't put the mobo's that support 4 way gpu's that's overkill for me.
 
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Rifter

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the 890FX chipset for sure. Its the only one that supports 2 full 16x PCIe lanes which is what you are going to want so you can CF cards to there full ability.

Thats if you are going for best gaming which is what you indicate in your post. If you are not going for best gaming and will stick to 1 GPU then any of the 800 series chipsets will work just fine for you.
 
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so like an ASUS Crosshair IV Formula AM3 AMD 890FX with an AMD Phenom II X6 1090T? but ive heard that the crosshair has a lot of heat issues and right now im just getting one card but ill definitely be getting two around Christmas time
 
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Rifter

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That mobo would work out very well for you. I have also built a system with a 1090T for a friend with the Gigabyte 890FXA-UD7 and it was a dream to work with and a very high quality board with a great BIOS and all the modern options(USB 3, SATA 3) You would do well with it as well.
 
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Gigabyte 890FXA-UD7 is a non standard notherboard, its an XL-ATX form factor, being longer to support the six pci-e slots, as Rifterut said a good board, but won't fit in most cases.
UD5 might be worth a look, though the Croosshair IV is very hard to beat
 
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Flipped Gazelle

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raGe93 said:
so like an ASUS Crosshair IV Formula AM3 AMD 890FX with an AMD Phenom II X6 1090T? but ive heard that the crosshair has a lot of heat issues and right now im just getting one card but ill definitely be getting two around Christmas time
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The "heat issues" are/were due to some of the mobo's heatsinks not being properly attached. I recently built a system with a Crosshair IV & 1090T @ 4.1 ghz/ 2.7 ghz NB and the mobo's temps were in the 46C range during OCCT testing. Ambient was ~ 25C.

As good as the Crosshair IV is, though, you can spend half as much and still get a good mobo.
 
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The 890FX / 890GX boards are the most futureproof but only support Crossfire.

The nVidia 980A boards support SLI but do not support USB 3 or SATA 6Gbps. (SATA 3)
There are only 2 of these as well, an ASUS and a MSI.
 
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Supershanks said:
Gigabyte 890FXA-UD7 is a non standard notherboard, its an XL-ATX form factor, being longer to support the six pci-e slots, as Rifterut said a good board, but won't fit in most cases.
UD5 might be worth a look, though the Croosshair IV is very hard to beat
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Supershanks in your Crosshair review you wrote "The contact with Southbridge, Northbridge and PWM area is pretty decent." does that mean that this "heat issue" that people are talking about is no longer a problem?

http://www.clunk.org.uk/forums/reviews/32391-asus-crosshair-iv-formula-living-review.html
 
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nenforcer said:
The 890FX / 890GX boards are the most futureproof but only support Crossfire.

The nVidia 980A boards support SLI but do not support USB 3 or SATA 6Gbps. (SATA 3)
There are only 2 of these as well, an ASUS and a MSI.
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just fyi the nvidia mobos dont support AHCI mode for SSDs as they refused to pay the license for it, so if u plan on buying an SSD u'll be stuck w/ the slower ide mode.:(
 
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