Asrock VS Gigabyte!

[younes-ea]

Hello guys.

I'll make a new build and i can't choose between these motherboards:
ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Killer
Gigabyte 990FXA-Ud3
ASRock 990FX Extreme3

The things i want is a good look (every of them got it)
8+2 if possible (not the extreme 3)
And it need to be the best in price to performance.
Okay let me see what you think

Regards,

 

[ingtar33]

stick with gigabyte as long as that isn't the r4 version of the ud3. Asrock might use a robust vrm design, but they're low quality vrms... and even lower quality caps. While their stuff is fine for a 95W intel, for a 125W piledriver they tend to fail a bit.

 

[younes-ea]

I'll use it with a fx 6300 btw and it is the Rev 4.0 and why is the 3.0 better?

 

[ingtar33]

I'll use it with a fx 6300 btw and it is the Rev 4.0 and why is the 3.0 better?

the versions of the ud3 prior to r4 were all excellent. the r4 has a gimped bios design, and generally is buggy. don't know what gigabyte did, but they took what was one of the best amd motherboards in the ud3, and turned it into a major lemon.

 

[younes-ea]

Hmm okay but what should i choose now?
The asrock has some pretty nice features and gread build in audio (won't use a audio card)

 

[younes-ea]

No one knows more about the asrock board?

 

[ingtar33]

if you're talking a ud3, then you're talking about a 100-120 pricerange... how about an ASUS m5a99x Evo R2.0. very good motherboard right there. Took my 8320 up to 5ghz without a problem (actually validated it at 5.3ghz)

 

[younes-ea]

That one is not so cheap over here 150 euro i'm looking at 130 euro max!

 

[ingtar33]

hrm... well you don't say what your cpu is... if it's a 6 core or less any of those asrocks will do fine. Frankly they should do alright with an 8core... i just don't like suggesting them cause of their high failure rate.

that said there are some asrock owners of an AM3+ board that swear by them, so who knows? you might be very happy. I would definitely if the choice was an asrock Fatal1ty and a UD3 r4.0, take the Asrock 10 out of 10 times. It only gets iffy if we start talking about older UD3 versions...

 

[younes-ea]

I will buy the R9 280x thogether with a amd 6300
Thanks for your support mate!