Creating sets of mobos and cpus for diagnostics

[DStech]

Hey guys, I'm a PC tech but I haven't been in the game for a while so I'm a bit out of date when it comes to all the recent Intel and AMD sockets that have been available the past few years. I'm looking at having sets of mobos and cpus for each socket (the popular ones anyway) so when diagnosing a customer's computer I can have a cpu and/or mobo that I can swap in their machine for testing. Obviously I want the cheapest options possible. Let me know what you think. Thanks!

 

[Dontrag3bro]

BIOSTAR motherboards are good for low end i5's and most i3's in my opinion.

 

[SubZed]

Amd I would go for the: ASRock 960GM/U3S3 FX and the fx 6300 for a test cpu

Intel I would go for the ASRock B85M and the Intel Core i5-4430 as a test cpu

EDIT: or for intel go with the Biostar H81MHV3