Need Mobo Opinions

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• Nov 8, 2010

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so after scraping some cash together I am finally ready to place an order. I drooled over the asus crosshair iv forumula but the price doesn't seem to be worth it. So I'm left with the GIGABYTE GA-890FXA-UD5or BIOSTAR TA890FXE, I've heard good things about all three but would like to hear from people who actually have experience with these, or if you have a better suggestion I'm all ears, I have a couple days before I place my order. And yes the board will be overclocked to hell and back so voltage regulation and cooling are important.

 

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I would avoid Gigabyte boards. I've had 5 of them, and 3 of them have died on me, and the other developed a very noisy chipset fan. Buy an Asus, they seem to be better quality. You don't have to buy the most expensive Asus board either.

 

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I've had the mobo in my Sig for awhile now, haven't had any problems and love it for overclocking.

I would say avoid MSI at all freaking costs - but Asus is good too

 

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yeah, MSI isn't an option, after my past experience with receiving 2 DOA boards in a row I consider them to be a fisher price brand. The only problem I've ever had with gigabyte was a short lived chipset fan and the dual bios took a crap so I was welcomed with a page of cmos errors on every boot but that was back in the Socket A days. I generally prefer asus as I'm most familiar with those but I've heard equally good things about asus and gigabyte lately.

 

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The Crosshair is an excellent board but not really needed for good OC'ing. The ASUS M4A89TD is the one you want to look at - out of stock at Newegg, though.
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They've just updated them all to the "PRO" board - my bad:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131655



Guess I'd go with the Gigabyte but no personal experience with any of them - just lots and lots of reading ...

 

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I think all 3 would be good choices. Keep hearing good things about that Biostar

 

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yeah its a tough decision lol the M4A89TD sounds just as solid as the crosshair minus a few features I wouldn't need like buttons on the mobo, it may come down to flipping coins in the end.

 

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When people ask which is better, the Gigabyte you listed or the ASUS I listed that's pretty much what I recommend - flip a coin, they're both good boards ...

 

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• Nov 9, 2010

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Trap05 said:

I think all 3 would be good choices. Keep hearing good things about that Biostar

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I was seriously torn for the longest time on getting the Biostar I45 Mobo after seeing that insane OC that made headlines (I think it was 600Mhz FSB?)

Ultimately I went with Gigabyte because I knew it would work, didn't know much about Biostar or used any of their products prior to that.

 

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I decided on the crosshair iv because thats what the quarter landed on. As always I will machine polish the heatsinks and replace the bubbleyum they use with mx2. any issues after that I will rma the board with either the ud5 or M4A89TD. Has anyone ever heard of the biostar actually starting on fire? I don't believe it but that would be pretty funny

 

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I have had this giga board in my signature for a while its a great overclocker. I would stay away for MSI and ECS. Biostar is ok and Gigabyte is always good.

The biostar thing i hear was a joke that got out of hand

 

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yeah I guess the same could have happened to the crosshair boards with that northbridge mounting issue that seems to still not have been resolved except for the extreme version. I didn't consider that a serious issue because I already plan to increase the mounting pressure slightly but if I was just planning to slap it in a case and go overclocking it could end up being a serious waste of time but any issues besides that and I will rma it for a gigabyte board and give them a try since its been years and I've never had any issues with gigabyte except chipset fans dying within a week or 2 but the ud5 doesn't have one so that wouldn't be a problem.