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Hello everyone I hope you are all having a great day, I just wanted to come on here to see if the motherboard I have my eyes on could be used to build my gaming pc my budget is $300 yeah I know not much for what I'm asking but I'm just lucky my dad agreed to let me use his credit card for the parts. Anyways the one I'm looking at is the Asus H61M-C I'm looking for other compatible parts that would be good but I just want to know if this could be the motherboard for a gaming pc as it is cheap. If any of you could give feedback on this I would really appreciate it and if so it would be great if you could post a cheap motherboard I could use for gaming.
 
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It can be used for low-medium gaming. You wont be able to overclock and will have no advanced features but you can put a graphics card in it and play games on it.

It is a socket 1155 (sandy and ivy bridge intel core i_ cpus) so you will need to match that.
For budget gaming I would look at GTX 750 or better a 750ti for a GPU.
I know you are on a budget but dont buy a cheap power supply (anything that comes with a case is cheap), get something that is at least 80+ rated; not a good idea to go cheap on the one part that can destroy everything else.

EDITED: at $300 budget you really cant afford to build a computer.
$50 cheap mobo
$50 for only 4gb of ram
$75 cheap cpu (like pentium)
$50 hard drive
$15 cd drive
$40 psu
$40 case.

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It can be used for low-medium gaming. You wont be able to overclock and will have no advanced features but you can put a graphics card in it and play games on it.

It is a socket 1155 (sandy and ivy bridge intel core i_ cpus) so you will need to match that.
For budget gaming I would look at GTX 750 or better a 750ti for a GPU.
I know you are on a budget but dont buy a cheap power supply (anything that comes with a case is cheap), get something that is at least 80+ rated; not a good idea to go cheap on the one part that can destroy everything else.

EDITED: at $300 budget you really cant afford to build a computer.
$50 cheap mobo
$50 for only 4gb of ram
$75 cheap cpu (like pentium)
$50 hard drive
$15 cd drive
$40 psu
$40 case.

That is $320 and you do not have a graphics card or a copy of windows. Those two together is another $200 minimum.
 
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Thank you for your input it is greatly appreciated, although it kinda just destroyed my dreams but I guess I will have to wait till Christmas to get enough mone for the parts.(cant wait till I get a job, still in training 🙁 )
 
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Don't use an old motherboard, it really won't be any cheaper than building a new PC. Here's what i'd do.

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3220 3.0GHz Dual-Core Processor ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($46.99 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($35.98 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB 2.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($39.95 @ Mwave)
Video Card: MSI GeForce GTX 650 1GB Video Card ($69.99 @ Newegg)
Case: Rosewill FBM-02 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($21.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($19.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer ($13.99 @ Newegg)
Total: $300.87

You can use Ubuntu for some gaming, but you will really want to get your hands on a copy of Windows later on, like for Christmas.

If you want Windows now, this is definitely not as a good of a PC, but it'd work:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD A4-6320 3.8GHz Dual-Core Processor ($59.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-S1 Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($34.69 @ Newegg)
Memory: Team 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($35.98 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB 2.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($39.95 @ Mwave)
Case: Rosewill FBM-02 MicroATX Mini Tower Case ($21.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($19.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: LG GH24NSB0 DVD/CD Writer ($13.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $308.56
 
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I have had a horrible with MSI motherboards, just this year. It was breaking, tons of audio glitches, faulty connections, just a total mess. ASUS and Asrock are better names. Here's what i'd do:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD Athlon X4 760K 3.8GHz Quad-Core Processor ($89.99 @ Newegg)
CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus 76.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($19.99 @ Newegg)
Motherboard: Asus A78M-A Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard ($49.79 @ Newegg)
Memory: A-Data XPG V2 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($79.17 @ OutletPC)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.99 @ Amazon)
Video Card: XFX Radeon R7 260X 1GB Core Edition Video Card ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply ($34.99 @ Newegg)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD/CD Writer ($19.99 @ Newegg)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($89.98 @ OutletPC)
Total: $512.88
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-07-22 19:36 EDT-0400
 
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Intel won't give you the value you need at this price point.
 
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This is saddening as I have set up a whole build around this motherboard and I can't really up my price to anything higher as I'm on a tight budget $500 anyone know a motherboard at his price point.
 
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MSi motherboards are definitely not the best. It is well worth spending another $5-10 for an ASUS or ASrock board. If you have your heart set on Intel, sure:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3420 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($64.99 @ Canada Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($44.95 @ Vuugo)
Memory: Kingston 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1866 Memory ($49.99 @ Memory Express)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($54.99 @ Canada Computers)
Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 750 1GB Video Card ($104.99 @ NCIX)
Case: Silverstone PS08B (Black) MicroATX Mid Tower Case ($34.99 @ Newegg Canada)
Power Supply: EVGA 430W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($29.99 @ Memory Express)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($14.99 @ Memory Express)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($99.79 @ DirectCanada)
Total: $499.67

That RAM is an absolute steal. You should jump on that NOW.
 
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thank you very much this information is appreciated I was having trouble finding a good graphics card for cheap is the one in your build good performance because im willing to spend another $30 or so for something better even though this will bring me over my budget.
 
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Here, the graphics are considerably better in here:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Pentium G3420 3.2GHz Dual-Core Processor ($64.99 @ Canada Computers)
Motherboard: ASRock H81M-DGS R2.0 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($44.95 @ Vuugo)
Memory: Kingston Fury Black Series 4GB (1 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory ($39.99 @ Memory Express)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($49.79 @ DirectCanada)
Video Card: Club 3D Radeon R9 270 2GB '14Series Video Card ($159.99 @ Canada Computers)
Case: Thermaltake Versa H22 ATX Mid Tower Case ($26.00 @ Vuugo)
Power Supply: EVGA 500W 80+ Certified ATX Power Supply ($34.99 @ Memory Express)
Optical Drive: Lite-On iHAS124-04 DVD/CD Writer ($14.99 @ Memory Express)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) ($99.79 @ DirectCanada)
Total: $535.48
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2014-07-24 00:08 EDT-0400

I took down the price in a few other areas, got a cheaper hard drive, case, and upgraded the power supply for the more power-hungry card.
 
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