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post #31 of 35
11/8/12 at 6:38pm
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May I personally suggest you save more money by picking up the A75-E35 from MSI. It's a mere $49.99! I have personally used this board and it's an amazing value and a flawless UEFI BIOS. It doesn't support crossfire - but are you really going to crossfire w/ FM2?? A general rule of thumb is to avoid paying more for your motherboard than processor. With those savings you could grab an A8 5600K.
The differences between A75 and A85X:
2 more SATA ports and Crossfire (x8/x8) on A85X

That looks good, but it doesn't have heatsinks on the VRMs (I was planning on overclocking with Steamroller), and it only supports single channel memory (been kinda wanting future-proofing my build, but I really don't know how that affects gaming performance).
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11/8/12 at 6:44pm
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That looks good, but it doesn't have heatsinks on the VRMs (I was planning on overclocking with Steamroller), and it only supports single channel memory (been kinda wanting future-proofing my build, but I really don't know how that affects gaming performance).

You can buy little heatsinks off newegg for the VRMs. It also does support dual channel. When both the slots are populated the RAM runs in dual channel mode.

This board would be ideal for you : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157334
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post #33 of 35
11/8/12 at 7:05pm
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You can buy little heatsinks off newegg for the VRMs. It also does support dual channel. When both the slots are populated the RAM runs in dual channel mode.
This board would be ideal for you : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157334
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You can buy little heatsinks off newegg for the VRMs. It also does support dual channel. When both the slots are populated the RAM runs in dual channel mode.
This board would be ideal for you : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157334

Hmm, replacing with the ASROCK you suggested and the A8 5600K makes the total cost with shipping a mere $225.01

Not too shabby! biggrin.gif Thanks for the suggestion! REP+
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post #34 of 35
11/9/12 at 1:31pm
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You do realize he has an x79 board right? He can't drop an i3 or i5 chip in there.

hmm, asrock has the same name for two boards lol. quite confusing.
this one supported the i5/i3
http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z77%20Extreme4-M/?cat=CPU
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post #35 of 35
11/9/12 at 2:48pm
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hmm, asrock has the same name for two boards lol. quite confusing.
this one supported the i5/i3
http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/Z77%20Extreme4-M/?cat=CPU

ASrocks naming scheme takes awhile to get used too - but once you've had 10+ ASrock boards you get used too it tongue.gif
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