Is it good for gaming?

[carlosamezian]

Hello, I just built my PC about a week ago and my friend brought something to my attention that some low-end ("cheap") motherboards aren't meant for gaming, I have the Asus Prime H310-A motherboard and I want to know if it's good for gaming or not. I'm not running intensive games like PUBG or what now, just stuff like Fortnite and LoL, and the first Watch Dogs and Minecraft.
My whole build consists of GTX 1050, Ballistix 8Gb of ram, i3 8100, 400w EVGA power supply, and the Corsair spec 2 carbide series case **my board only has one fan header so I was planning on getting a fan header splitter so I can utilize the 3 fans since 2 of them aren't doing anything.

Thanks in advance for your responses.

 

[ebossss03]

Purpose of a motherboard conmecting all components and supporting them If it does not increase fps or smthing. It’s all just for supporting and overclocking.

 

[Barty1884]

"cheap" boards lack some features, but for stock operation, don't really differ from premium offerings.

With a locked i3 (ie no overclocking), and I assume no desire for RAID etc... then there's really no need for a "premium" board.

Some corners are cut, obviously. And you've found one with the lack of fan headers, but a cheap 2way splitter is substantially cheaper than the price increase to step up in board quality.

You're totally fine. The board suits the build for what it is; mid-range & functional.

 

[carlosamezian]

Purpose of a motherboard conmecting all components and supporting them If it does not increase fps or smthing. It’s all just for supporting and overclocking.

I'm sorry, I don't understand your comment.

 

[Dugimodo]

The motherboard doesn't make much difference for gaming, or none at all. You are fine.
So called "gaming" motherboards are more focussed on power delivery and overclocking so you can squeeze more performance out of your hardware.

At stock settings with the same GPU/RAM/CPU combo you would be hard pressed to find a performance difference of any significance between any of the chipsets or motherboards.

Honestly I think a lot of people just buy into the marketing hype and convince themselves it matters. I have been building and playing on PCs for more than 30 years and almost all my motherboards have been low to midrange offerings even when the rest of the hardware was higher end. The couple of times I went for a high end motherboard gained me no better gaming fun than any of the cheap ones.

 

[LordVile]

Lol intense games like pubg. Last I checked it wasn’t intense just unoptimsied which they might have ironed out.

It’ll be fine you can’t OC on the board anyway and that’s about it in regards to board quality. Unless you want all the RHB and 50 M.2 slots.