First post on the forum so go easy, got my FX-8350 now I am chasing a motherboard for it. It appears my first choice is back on the cards as it turns out not to be sold out, also at a reduced price which is nice.
is the ASUS really worth the extra $150 give or take? I like the features on both, Logan says you guys are smart, prove him right and sell me one or the other.
Yeah the 990FX UD3H could work, but that tiny little bit of blue is killing me inside.... nice price though but everything I have bought so far has actually turned out to be red and black from the power supply to the ram and case. Even the AMD colour scheme ( meant to be maybe ). This is my first build and I would love to experiment with RAID and ideally overclock this 8350 to near enough 5 Ghz.
well if you can curb your thirst for the red and black i highly recomend the asrock 990fx extreme 4 but it comes in white and blue with a black pcb i think. for around 100 bucks and offers performance similar to the two you suggested.
Not trying to threadjack but which one of these would be the best for the money if you don't care about the colors? If spending $150 is going to be a lot better than spending $100 I'd do it but I'd like to have it be as cheap as possible. Would any of the 970s work with the 8350/8320?
if you can find the EVO version of the board, The Asus M5A97 EVO r 2.0 then you can better go for the evo, i have the evo, it has a 6+2 power phase instead of the 4+2 on the 97..
but ofc a black gigabyte GA-99FXA-UD5 with 8+2 power phase, and 140 W tdp, is one of the best choices.
but its also not a cheap solotion.
if you not plan to oc, then i still could advice tha M5A97 evo .