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Best motherboard For gaming

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by mub6, Oct 14, 2008.

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    thanks mate,
    can you explain to me the difference between all of these motherboard?
    im just a bit confused
     
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    Option 1: Discontinued item
    Option 2: MSI G31 chipset mATX board. Solid but basic, cheap.
    Option 3: nforce 630i chipset. To be avoided.
    Option 4: Gigabyte P31 chipset mATX board. Another solid board.
    Option 5: Asus board with nvidia chipset. Neither are desirable for cheap boards.
    Option 6: Asus board with G31 chipset. Better, but chep Asus boards are still a bit of a grey area.
    Option 7: See above
    Option 8: Abit G31 board. Not sure how good this is. Abit have some good and bad products.
    Option 9: Gigabyte G31 board. Recommended
    Option 10: Inno3D 7100 chipset. Could do far better
    Option 11: Gigabyte P31 full size board. Highly recommended.
    Option 12: MSI 7100 board. COuld do better
    Option 13: Gigabyte G31 small board. Good, but the P31-S3G in option 11 is better
    Option 14: Abit 7100 board. See 12
    Option 15: As above
    Option 16: I'm a bit wary of the quality of ASRock Boards.


    Overall, I'd go with:
    http://www.ebuyer.com/product/141599

    This board is from a good manufacturer with a robust chipset, and doesn't have integrated graphics. You don't need integrated graphics for gaming as you have to use a separate PCIe 16x graphics card to get any respectable performance, and if you're into overclocking, integrated graphics will put a stop to that.
     

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