AMD Mobo

[Joe12o]

Can someone recommend a decent AMD motherboard to me that costs $110 or less, has an AM3 CPU socket, can handle RAM speed of DDR3 1600(RAM is G.Skill Ripjaws Series), has at least 1 PCI-express 2.0 x16, ATX preferably (can be micro ATX if it has to be), Kind of want it to be the newer SATA or whatever(i think it can do 6 Gb/s), and maybe have USB 3.0.

P.S. It only HAS TO HAVE the first 4, but I would prefer to have all of those features. Oh and please recommend one that has a VERY VERY LOW CHANCE OF BEING DoA. I just can't choose one because most of the ones have a lot of reviews saying the board was DoA and I hate RMAing things. 😵 Thanks!

 

[o1die]

Lots of doa boards are due to operator error or trying to use the new 6 core amd cpus without the latest bios. I would look at the asrock 890gx extreme 3. It's priced right and has many of the latest features. I'm trying the ripjaws ram soon. Hope it works.

 

[saint19]

What's your CPU?

 

[o1die]

I use an i3 530 running at 3.6.

 

[AMDtimmy]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131646

Your RAM will be underclocked to 1333mhz, but can be overclocked up to 2000mhz.

 

[Joe12o]

The CPU i'm going to be using is the AMD Phenom ii x4 955 black edition

 

[Joe12o]

Ahhh what the heck, ill just post all the parts that I'm getting so you guys can choose one for me better.

CPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103808

RAM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231277

PSU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139005

GPU
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127490

Hard Drive
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152181

DVD Burner
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827151188

Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147153

 

[S1W1]

For $169 I would get a HD 5830 (xfx) off Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Radeon-HD-5830-1GB-DDR5/dp/B003P96HEQ/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1291149504&sr=8-3
For the mobo i have an asus m4n75td (99$) which is great (but no USB 3) and would meet your needs or you may want to consider a ASUS M4A87TD ($84 Newegg) which has USB 3 and all the other stuff you wanted.
You could use a 600W PSU for your build with no problems, but 650W leaves some room for more kit.
BTW I like the case and a couple of blue cold cathodes would look great.

 

[saint19]

Nice CPU.

If you want install a single GPU, go with this Gigabyte 870A-UD3. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128443

If you want Crossfire in the future, go with this ASRock 870 EXTREME3. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157198

 

[Joe12o]

is this a pretty decent mobo for the price? And is Asrock a reliable mobo maker?(never looked at Asrock's products before)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157198

 

[saint19]

ASRock is an ASUS company, not with the same high quality of ASUS but even that is good too.