I need something that will house my FX 8350, and support crossfire. And maybe support for FX 9000 CPU's to maybe upgrade in the future, because I can, and reasons. However, I don't feel like spending 200$ only if a 140$ board will be just fine.
I want to place the order tonight and pick up at newegg tomorrow morning (they are 4 miles down my street).
Help me decide please.... Two boards that I am considering are these
I personally have the ASUS board and an 8320 which I can OC out to 4.7ghz on a 212 EVO with 1.4v . Love the board, it's been excellent to work with. The Asus board has 2 extra USB 2 connectors, an Extra SATA port and and extra fan connector which is great because my system has 5 fans and with the GIGABYTE I'd have to pick one to leave not plugged in or use a molex adapter and lose control over it.
So my pick from personal experience would be the ASUS
I've currently got an ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2.0 and I personally think that it is the best bang for buck 990FX chipset motherboard on the market. You don't really have to worry too much about the 6+2 or 8+2 power phases, unless of course you're going to be running very high levels of vcore (like 1.4v to 1.5v), then having the extra power phases will help keep the board a bit cooler. My advice to you is to just get the cheapest of the two boards. I distrust Gigabyte boards a bit, because I had a really shitty VIA KT400 chipset Gigabyte board back in the day, but from what I hear they make quality boards nowadays.
Wenn you buy the gigabyte board, you need to be lucky that you get the Revision 4.0 of this board, if you get an older in stocked one from Newegg, Then you get previous revisions of that particular gigabyte board, and those are realy a piece of JUNK!
Since newegg does not advertise about which revision the particular board is..
I´m personaly totaly not a fan of gigabyte AM3+ boards, they just caused me too much headaces. They are cheap for a reason you know..
Asus crosshair V Formula Z 8+2 powerphase digi vrm
Asrock 990FX Extreme 9 12+2 powerphase digi vrm
Asrock 990FX fatal1ty pro 12+2 powerphase digi vrm
Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 8+2 powerphase digi vrm
Pushed my 8320 to 4.8 on the XA-UD3,didn't even sweat :D But my cooler can handle it so I dialed it to 4.5 then 4.4 stock voltage. It handles the cpu so damn well
As for ASRock 990FX Killer, I have it. Problem with it is that in bios there is limited overclocking functionality (but you can use ASRock's F-Stream software for more overclocking features) and with windows 8.1 there is Killer E2200 memory leak problem, but that is not so hard fix via regeditor.. Overall board looks awesome, but expected more from it.
E2200 killer issue in windows 8.x is a driver issue. you can download a better driver that fixes these issues, on the site from killer (qualcomm), it self.