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I'm set on getting the AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE, bang for buck it seems to be the most appealing to me. I've watched most of the Build a *insert price point here* vids and just can't seem to make up my mind. Currently I'm stuck between wanting to go overboard and buying a really nice "high-end" board and trying to save my money and go with a cheaper board and spending money on other items. So here's a basic run-down of what I use and plan to use my PC for:

1. Light gaming such as SWTOR, TF2, NFS, emulators(NES, DS, etc.) big fan of side scrollers.

2. Digital art and design. 

3. Would like to record gamplay footage and in turn create movies.

4. Some music producing, namely chiptune and lo-fi DnB.

5. Wanting to get into games such as Skyrim and Halflife 2, Bioshock Infinite etc etc.

So looking for something that is going to have a nice bit of features, by that I mean: 4 ram slots(not required but want to do 8gb of ram), good audio or at least space to add an audio card, good built in wifi however i have a decent wifi card so not neccissary but again space for it(room isnt close to router and renting house so can't really mess with routing cables and etc), and that can support a higher end graphics card(I'm only using a GT610 but will upgrade in the future). Here's part of the issue... I'm usually on a tight budget so I'm only able to really around 90 tops give or take a few dollars but really looking for something around the 50 to 60 dollar range.

If it seems like I'm asking for rediculous things or if it seem like I'm asking for too much or even too little let me know I'm a pretty big newbie to the PC world so getting  to know what features would be useful and what would be wasted would help a lot. So yes I'm looking for suggestions but as well as explaining what some of the features to a board are and what I should look for as well.

If you must, go with the MSI 970A-G46. It meets all of your immediate needs, except maybe the huge overclocking potential that you were looking for (try going with bus speed modification before you switch to clock multiplier and voltage adjustment.) It provides room for SLI/Crossfire in the future, as well as room for an audio card and a WiFi adapter, as long as one of them is PCI-e 1x. You can also pick it up from Newegg right now for $70. I'd wager that it is a good bang for your buck. Just be careful when you tweak voltages, good VRM quality can only do so much, it's only got a 4+1 phase design. So it's only good for 10% voltage adjustments, any more than that and I wouldn't expect the board to last terribly long. Still, you should be able to do some fair overclocking within those restrictions.

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-motherboard-970ag46

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008V99350/?tag=pcpapi-20

best bang for the buck motherboard for that cpu

Thanks for the info, that board was one I was actually looking at to begin with but again, so much out there so hard to just jump on a board. I guess I probably should've mentioned I'm not going to be diving too much into OC'ing until I'm a bit more experienced with pc's. Part of me building this new one is more to get into it without overloading myself. Thanks again for the suggestion.

Now I see you posted the LE version which from what I've looked up has less features than the non-le, would going for the non-le be worth the money in long run or would I wind up not using a lot of the features?

if you can afford it, i would highly recommend to go with the Asus M5A97 R2.0. This board has nice feutures, 4+2 powerphase and  digi vrm. so its a great board.

The LE version is slack at feutures, it has also a 4+2 powerphase, but a big CON of this board, is that there is no heatsink on the VRM´s, a phenom is a 125W tdp cpu, so those vrms would runn very hot, especialy if you plan to OC, So yeah go for the Asus M5A97 R2.0.

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Definitely worth the extra money compared to the LE model, especially since it opts for an 8-pin power connector instead of the 4-pin on the LE. So it can push all the necessary current to the expansion cards and the RAM. I still like the MSI board for SLI or Crossfire based systems, because it offers a x8 crossfire bandwidth instead of x4. But your overclocks do suffer just a little bit on the MSI one.

If you really don't want to do major overclocking, then I really like this board. Just try tweaking the bus rate, it should get you pretty far, if not over 4 GHz.