Need Help Choosing Motherboard

[mephare]

Hey guys, my name is Adam. I just signed up, and was hoping you could help me out. I'm building my first PC from scratch and trying to stay around a $400 budget. I know it's not much to work with, but I need to get something together. It's going to be used for some gaming as well as compiling programs when I start college. Here's the list of what I have picked out currently:

CPU: AMD Athlon II X3 455 3.3GHz
Video Card: XFX HD-667X-ZHF3 Radeon HD 6670 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCIe 2.1x16
Case: Antec Three Hundred
Power Supply: Antec Basiq BP430
Optical Drive: LITE-ON 24X DVD Writer SATA

I'm having trouble picking out a motherboard though. The 2 options I am looking at are the BIOSTAR A880G+ and the ASRock M3A770DE. If I go for the BIOSTAR, my RAM will be G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR3 1333, and ASRock will be G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1600.

Can anyone give me advice on which you think is better, and why? Also, if you have any thoughts on the complete build, whether you have a recommendation, or something here isn't compatible that I didn't catch. Thanks for any help.

 

[Doougin]

do u have a hard drive for it already or did u not post it? and id personally go for the asrock. i just put one into a friends computer and it worked like a charm. it would also enable u to add more stuff down the road. as for memory if the 8 gig set is within budget go for it.