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So i was wonderring if there was any Motherboard with a better Power/Price

I was thinking about the MSI Z77A-G43 (125$Can)

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Yeah, the Z68 is a MUCH better choice! For a general noob rule, look for something that isn't going to hinder future upgrades, so things like: as many DIMM slots as you can; PCI slots etc :smile: shop around Ebay has some good deals ;D
 
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Well i was thinking about this build:
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CPU: i5-3550
GPU:(Not permanent)GTX 240
Ram:Corsair Vengeance @1600mhz
Tower: Antec Three Hundred Two
MotherBoard: MSI Z77A-G43
And from what i readed the Z68 isnt supporting 3rd gen i5...

And from what i readed the Z68 isnt supporting 3rd gen i5...
And with USB 3.0 :smile:
 
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Well i was thinking about this build:
Code:
CPU: i5-3550
GPU:(Not permanent)GTX 240
Ram:Corsair Vengeance @1600mhz
Tower: Antec Three Hundred Two
MotherBoard: MSI Z77A-G43
And from what i readed the Z68 isnt supporting 3rd gen i5...

And from what i readed the Z68 isnt supporting 3rd gen i5...
And with USB 3.0 :smile:

http://www.asrock.com/mb/cpu.asp?Model=Z68 Extreme3 Gen3

Don't worry, the i5-3550 is supported. Also the board has 2x USB3.0 :wink:
 
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Edit: What does it have more than the MSI Z77A-G43? Because its 20$+ :/

Like I said before, 2x PCI-E 3.0 with support for SLI and Crossfire. If you don't care for that, then the MSI board will do just fine.
 
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Like I said before, 2x PCI-E 3.0 with support for SLI and Crossfire. If you don't care for that, then the MSI board will do just fine.
MSI only support CrossFireX, and im an ATI(AMD now :/) FanBoy :tongue:
 
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Like I said before, 2x PCI-E 3.0 with support for SLI and Crossfire. If you don't care for that, then the MSI board will do just fine.
And what about the BIOS? Do you think ASRock have a betetr BIOS Upgrader thing?
 
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And what about the BIOS? Do you think ASRock have a betetr BIOS Upgrader thing?

I would say so. The MSI board has an application that will update BIOS without having a need for a USB or CD (I presume) whilst ASRock just requires you to put the BIOS update on a USB and flash it from the BIOS screen. It doesn't really matter though, you rarely update a BIOS.
 
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I would say so. The MSI board has an application that will update BIOS without having a need for a USB or CD (I presume) whilst ASRock just requires you to put the BIOS update on a USB and flash it from the BIOS screen. It doesn't really matter though, you rarely update a BIOS.
Ill go with the MSI then :wink:
 
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